Out in force on the mean streets  By Andrew Laxon  Members of
the South Auckland Ferguson Neighbourhood Policing Team, from
left, Constable Silao Nansen, Sergeant Jonathan Milne and
Constable Junior Te'o. Photo / Silao Nansen  Reporter Andrew
Laxon and photographer Greg Bowker follow a team of police
finding alternative ways to curb crime in South Auckland's Otara
triangle  Wednesday afternoon in Otara. At a small block of
shops in a suburban back street, a couple of men haul cases of
beer out of a car and into a liquor store crammed with wall-to-
wall beer, spirits and pre-mixes.  Inside Sergeant Jonathan
Milne tackles store owner Jack Kalkat about selling alcohol the
week before to two young men on a 24-hour drinking spree. Milne
saw them leave the shop, stagger drunkenly down the street past
school children and rip off a street sign.  Kalkat insists it
can't have been his staff. Maybe the boys got the alcohol
somewhere else, he suggests.  No, says Milne firmly, they bought
it here. He mentions the importanc