Dozens of small business owners in the Greater Darwin region have organised a public meeting on Tuesday to discuss their ongoing frustrations with out-of-control crime, as another business was ram-raided overnight with one teen on bail arrested and another on the run.

The meeting is scheduled for 9am at Goyder Square in Palmerston on Tuesday morning and is open to everyone concerned about crime, organisers said.

“We have all had enough of the system of crime, the perpetrators who seem to get all the glory and the victims being done over,” wrote organiser Donna Roos in an email to other business owners.

“So sick to my stomach of seeing and hearing stories from so many people all over Darwin being broken into or bashed and robbed and yet still nothing has happened.

“If we don’t change what we are dealing with right now, give it two years and we will be just like Alice Springs … out of control!”

Ms Roos was calling for anyone in the Greater Darwin region to attend Tuesday’s public meeting, “business owners, home owners, renters, everyone who has been broken into and those who wish to have a say or help get the system that is not working, somewhat working and sorted”.

“This is all of us, we need to make a difference. If we sit back and do nothing, we will have nothing.”

Ms Roos also encouraged other communities in the NT to hold their own public meetings at the same date and time to send a message to government that the citizens are fed up with the current crime levels.

The meeting comes as NT Police said they were looking for a suspect who allegedly used a white Mitsubishi to ram raid a Woolner electrical business on Charlton Court at 4:50am on Sunday and stole “a quantity of electrical equipment before fleeing the scene”.

Police said they arrested a 15-year-old who had breached bail for his alleged involvement and were still looking for the other offender.

CLP Opposition Leader Lia Finocchiaro said commercial break-ins were 76 per cent in Darwin according to the latest crime stats.

She called on the Fyles Government to attend the meeting on Tuesday morning after failing to attend other community crime meetings so they can hear from the frustrated business owners.

“Business owners are at breaking point, and they have called this community meeting to show the Fyles Labor Government that they are really hurting,” she said.

“Labor need to come out, stand with, and listen to these business owners who are suffering under sky-high commercial break-in rates – they cannot hide any longer.

“The first step we need to see from this government is an admission that they have created a crime crisis. The second step will be to stop doing what we know doesn’t work and do something different.”