Lake Success Police Department Chief of Police Joseph Gardella added an extra detail this weekend in response to an uptick in crime that paid immediate dividends, Mayor Adam Hoffman said Tuesday.

Village police arrested six people who were trying to steal cars in Manhasset and drove towards Lake Success in trying to escape police, Hoffman said at the village board meeting.

The board approved the purchase of three new police vehicles and is in the final phase of getting six advanced plate reader systems.

The Village of Lake Success has 23 officers and will have around a dozen police cars after the delivery of the new cars.

The three cars will be purchased from Jim Shorkey Auto Group at $37,538 per car and $1,947 total for delivery of all the cars.

Hoffman said the village had difficulty in finding police cars to purchase, but the effort will be worthwhile in helping combat crime in the village.

Hoffman said the first night on patrol with the extra unit the Nassau County Police Department radioed them to say suspects were coming down Searingtown Road and turning onto the service road going west towards the village.

“We caught them at Little Neck Parkway,” Hoffman said.

Later that evening, the police department got a call from a woman saying she saw something suspicious on her home cameras, Hoffman said.

Village police intercepted four people in a car, a chase ensued and the car driven by the suspects ran into the village car, totaling it, and disabling their vehicle.

Two people inside the vehicle were arrested and two on foot managed to run to a nearby train station and get onto the train in time for it to leave.

“We made six arrests basically that night,” said Hoffman, “the first night of the detail. As I tell people all the time, people should use their home alarms. They should look at their cameras, if they have them, they should lock their cars and not leave their keys by their front door.”

A resident said he called the police after seeing a suspicious person on his camera and the police responded in 90 seconds. He said his wife thanked the police by baking them cookies.

“We’ve had a lot of people turn their alarm on,” said Trustee Lawrence Farkas, adding  “Don’t leave the keys in your car and lock your car in your driveway. That really really helped to decrease crime and the potential for crime.”

Hoffman said that crime trends show people are going around checking if doors are locked.

The six advanced plate readers the village intends to get installed show in real time what is coming into the village whether it be a car or bicycle.

Hoffman and other trustees agreed to not go into detail about the readers to not give criminals an edge.