We have still had petty crime overnight. Inspector Pete Dalton, thinks the current weather conditions do give us a significant advantage - footprints !

Can everyone be on the alert. You may have not been burgled Nor your car attacked, but if you find suspicious footprints around your drive / garden or around your car, can you please photograph them against a ruler, so that we can assess the shoe size. The imprint is usually very detailed if the snow was fresh.

Shoe prints can be as unique as fingerprints. We take shoe impressions from our well known offenders and keep a database. Once a pair of trainers have been worn for some time, it develops a wear pattern which we can detect. You may not have suffered a crime, but it would really help us to know if or where our prolific offenders have been. As you will see below, certain roads have been targeted several times over the last week. A thief may well have looked at your car / house and thought better of it, but the footprints leave evidence. Photos to the Ringmaster intel line please:

ringmasterintelligen@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk 

An example from the police log:

XXXX XX was interviewed about the garage burglary, he denied it, a pair of trainers were seized from him with tread matching that found at the scene, bailed to 00/00/10 in order for footwear to be analysed.

Help us to help you.

CRIME:

BISHAM, COOKHAM, HURLEY & THE WALTHAMS.

12/1 Bisham Bypass. Another lorry had 800 litres of Diesel stolen.

BOYN HILL, COX GREEN & WOODLANDS PARK:

11/1 - 12/1 Milverton Close. Burglary through rear door panel kicked in - IPOD, games console, jewellery and keys stolen.

11/1 - 12/1 Bracken Road. Car passenger window smashed - car searched. Jaguar.

11/1 - 12/1 Wessex Way. Car passenger window smashed - SAT NAV stolen.

11/1 - 12/1 Northumbria Road. Car passenger window smashed - SAT NAV stolen. Hyundai Elantra.

RIVERSIDE & BELMONT:

12/1 4 - 4.30 p.m. Cromwell Road. Car passenger window smashed - SAT NAV, handbag and contents stolen. Vauxhall Zafira.

11/1 - 12/1 Belmont Road. Car entered by unknown means - SAT NAV.

OLDFIELD & BRAY:

11/1 Alpine Close. Font window broken by a snowball.

11/1 - 12/1 Tithe Barn Drive. Burglary by unknown means keys and car stolen - black VW Golf index - LN 07 WVR. 4th burglary in this road in the last week. Any sightings of the car to the intel line please:

ringmasterintelligen@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk 

If you live in Tithe Barn Drive, can you ensure all your neighbours are on Ringmaster - they can register online very easily at:

www.Tvpcommunitymessaging.org

PINKNEYS GREEN & FURZE PLATT:

11/1 - 12/1 Highway Road. Both door mirror housings stolen from a car - Vauxhall Astra.

Watch out for those footprints !!!