She said the Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion will con­tin­ue to en­force the An­ti-Lit­ter Act and Pub­lic Health Or­di­nance, how­ev­er she called on cit­i­zens to main­tain the va­cant lots and di­lap­i­dat­ed build­ings. The Cor­po­ra­tion has a Unit of Lit­ter Pre­ven­tion War­dens who are in­struct­ed to find er­rant land own­ers to clear va­cant lots or face the Courts. Of­fi­cers from the Tu­na­puna Po­lice Sta­tion have been try­ing to en­sure peo­ple do not mis­use these prop­er­ties. Speak­ing to the Sun­day Guardian, one of­fi­cer said that once there was a struc­ture on the prop­er­ty peo­ple will oc­cu­py it to use il­le­gal sub­stances. Al­so, he con­firmed that rapes do take place, on those prop­er­ties, how­ev­er, these were not re­port­ed of­ten this year. "Re­mem­ber not every­body who gets rape will re­port it. If we could, we would have bro­ken down the struc­tures but we can­not do that,"he said. The of­fi­cer said the num­ber of aban­doned premis­es were enough to cause trou­ble. -Re­port­ing by Malis­sa Lara-Pat­ter­son