Crime:
12 January 2011Please look carefully at the days and
times of the offences I set out. Sometimes these are in the early
hours when many of us are at home and asleep and safe in our beds.
Many of those below, are during the daytime / early evening when we are in
fact just getting home from work, or generally out and about. The thieves
are apparently really blatant. Is that because we, do not pay much
attention to what is going on around us in our communities ? We are all
busy and often our minds, are elsewhere – BUT – we all know when we
see something suspicious happening – our attention is drawn immediately.
The question is – what do we do about it ? Often it’s ‘I am
too busy to phone the police just now and then the thought and moment passes’,
‘what if I am wrong’ ? ‘Did I actually see what I thought I saw’ ?
All excuses, for not doing what we know we should do – just call it in.
If you saw somethi ng that drew your attention – it doesn’t matter why
– take it from me – it was suspicious. You would want a neighbour to
do that for you !!! The usual number 0845 8 505 505. If it was
perhaps a crime taking place - kids trying car dfoor handles / someone on
a roof - its 999.
One of our members is an expert in the security field working with the
Home Office, setting BS standards for various security products. He felt
my reference to 5 lever mortise locks was now out of date and he is going
to write a short piece of advice for us all. New cylinder locks are now
vastly improved. The height should be knee high ! As soon as his piece
arrives, I will send it out. Now some feedback from my security message
yesterday from another member:
Hi Jeff Thanks for your email regarding security. I noticed that you refer
to locking doors when going out, or to bed. In fact we always keep our
doors locked during the day. For example, yesterday my husband was out and
I was upstairs washing my hair and would not have heard an intruder, so
double locked the front door. Actually, I have occasionally locked him out
of the house when I have locked the back door, not realising he was in the
garden!
Someone we know who lives in Reading was burgled by the 'letterbox
method'. He had thrown his keys on the stairs when he came in, and
admitted he knew the front door lock was 'dodgy'! He lost his work van
with all his paperwork inside (this was dumped and he was contacted as a
possible fly tipper!), his partner's handbag, laptop etc. were also
stolen. As he had other people’s keys, he had to replace not only his
keys but his customers' too. He is now paranoid about unlocked doors and
was impressed when he called last night during the early evening and we
had to unlock the door! Even when we know our daughter will be returning
during the evening, it is no hardship to her to open the double locked
door from the outside..
We received a useful leaflet from Thames Valley Police with a diagram of
the UPVC door handles and how to make sure they are locked so that a
‘crook’ cannot be used through a letterbox. As you say, people do not
seem to realise how easy it is to put something through the letterbox and
pull down the handle.
Another helpful piece of advice from Paul, our Computer Security expert member regarding Social Network sites:
Open House
How did you pass on season’s greetings this Christmas and New Year ? Were you able to do it face to face at a party or having a meal with friends ? Or was it, like thousands of people, by using social network sites like Facebook and Twitter ? It has been more common to keep in touch with our friends and family by going online. The problem is that the more we use these sites the more information we tend to reveal about ourselves. How many of us have announced to the world that we were leaving the cold weather to spend Christmas away on holiday? or how we love the new 50” Plasma TV we have bought. We need be careful about what we say on our network sites as you cannot always be sure those reading it will have your best intentions at heart. Follow these basics steps :
- Think about what you post. Do you really have to tell everybody your private information.
- Make sure your privacy setting are set so only your friends can see it
- Ensure you only have people you really know, as friends
That way, hopefully only people you trust will benefit from your good cheer. Paul is always happy to answer any security questions you may have about your computer and online surfing. Simply send them to me and I will forward them directly to him - jeffrey.pick@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
My grateful thanks as always to our extremely knowledgeable members.
CRIME:
BISHAM, COOKHAM, HURLEY, THE WALTHAMS, LITTLEWICK GREEN & KNOWL HILL:
7/1 – 9/1 Friday / Sunday Bradcutts Lane, Cookham.
Attempted shed break – no entry gained – repeat victim.
7/1 – 10/1 Friday 6 p.m. / Monday 8 a.m. Sutton Road.
Shed break doors forced off.
10/1 Monday 8 a.m. / 10.45 p.m. High Road, Cookham Rise.
VAMOOSE BURGLARY. Entry through forced rear patio doors – IPODs, laptop,
IPAD, camera, camcorder, wine, jewellery, 38” TV keys and blue Mercedes
SL 280 stolen index Y 118 ECW. Any sightings to the intel line please:
ringmasterintelligen@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
11/1 6 p.m. Melba Cottages, Milley Bridge, Waltham St
Lawrence X 2. Burglary via forced side window – 40” TV stolen. the
owner returned home and saw a man on his neighbour’s roof. The man
jumped down into the garden and ran off. Burglary via forced side window
– nothing appears to have been stolen.
10/1 – 11/1 Monday 10.20 p.m. / Tuesday 7.15 a.m. Bainhurst
Cottages, Coronation Road, Littlewick Green. Car driver’s door
lock forced – CD player and SAT NAV stolen. SAT NAVs must not be left in
cars !
BOYN HILL, COX GREEN & WOODLANDS PARK:
10/1 Monday 3 p.m. / 4.30 p.m. Ockwells Road, Cox Green.
BURGLARY via insecure rear patio doors. 3 wallets stolen. A man was seen
acting suspiciously nearby – described as white, 15 / 16 years old,
skinny, light brown very short hair, clean shaven, pointy nose, wearing a
grey tracksuit and carrying a black rucksack.
20/12 – 28/12 Audley Drive. Manhole cover stolen.
11/1 Tuesday 7 a.m. / 7 p.m. Lambourne Drive, Cox Green.
Burglary through forced rear door – camera, cash, laptops and jewellery
stolen. We should never see jewellery stolen in a burglary – if we all
do the right thing and protect it ! No jewellery boxes on a dressing table
/ bedside cabinets filled with valuable items. It should all be hidden,
where it would take a thief more than 5 minutes to find ! Items with
little or no financial / sentimental value can be left out so that a thief
takes that and doesn’t look for the real stuff !
10/1 – 11/1 Monday / Tuesday. Heywood Gardens. Red
Peugeot 106 index P 862 LKP stolen from outside a house. It has not pinged
ANPR.
RIVERSIDE & BELMONT:
9/1 – 10/1 Sunday 10 p.m. / Monday 9.45 a.m. Harrow Lane.
BURGLARY through forced rear door – Nothing stolen.
INNER MAIDENHEAD:
10/1 Monday 1.45 a.m. Crown House, Reform Road. CCTV
caught 2 men looking into windows. They moved cones to stand on – no
entry gained.
10/1 Monday 6.30 p.m. York Road. RBWM CCTV picked up
offenders damaging cars’ wing mirrors.
6/1 – 10/1 Thursday 9.15 a.m. / Monday 3.15 p.m. Forlease Close.
BURGLARY via insecure first floor window – jewellery and cash stolen.
7/1 – 10/1 Friday 6.20 p.m. / Monday 8 a.m. Ford transit had padlock
forced off to steal a ladder from the roof.
11/1 Tuesday 9 a.m. Wellington Road. Van left INSECURE
entered – IPOD, mobile, chargers, tachograph and bag containing food
stolen. A man was seen running away – white, 5’9”, dark hair,
wearing dark clothing.
11/1 Tuesday 11 p.m. Penyston Road. Car window smashed
– not known if anything stolen.
24/12 – 28/12 Forlease Road. Copper piping stolen from
a business air conditioning system.
OLDFIELD & BRAY:
11/1 Tuesday 6.30 p.m. / 8 p.m. Clubs at Braywick Road X
4. Both car door locks forced – Mobile, IPOD and wallet stolen. Car
driver’s door lock forced – wallet, mobile and clothing stolen. Car
passenger window smashed – holdall, wallet and clothing stolen. Car
driver’s door lock forced – SAT NAV and amplifier stolen. cars left in
this location are likely to have easy pickings left in them – that will
act as a ‘Crime Attractor’. Anyone going there must make an extra
effort to leave nothing in cars so that the thieves will give up and go
somewhere else.
PINKNEYS GREEN & FURZE PLATT:
10/1 Monday 3 a.m. School in Oaken Grove. Alarm activated
when thieves broke into caretakers office – tools stolen.
10/1 Monday 1 p.m. – 6.15 p.m. Courthouse Road.
BURGLARY via insecure rear door – Wii, DVDs, 32” & TV stolen.
1/1 Lancaster Road. Car windscreen smashed. This was
witnesses and a suspect named. The police visited, found the instrument
used and a man was arrested.
11/1 Tuesday 6 p.m. Malvern Road. Wing mirror kicked from
car.
11/1 Tuesday 8.20 p.m. Cannon Court Road. Car broken into
on driveway. Thief made off immediately the car alarm sounded.
11/1 Tuesday 6.15 p.m. Westfield Road. Attempted Burglary
- The owner was home with the lights off – They heard their garage door
open and close, then someone kicking the front door to force it – no
entry gained.
10/1 – 11/1 Monday 11 p.m. / Tuesday 6 a.m. Cranbrook Drive.
Burglary via rear door left INSECURE
– laptop, handbag, car keys plus silver Toyota Rav index RK 03
UBL stolen. No hits on ANPR as yet.
11/1 Tuesday 4 p.m. / 6.15 p.m. Aldebury Road X 2. Index
plates T 238 BJB and RE 02 LJU stolen
from 2 cars. Nothing yet on ANPR. One owner found another number plate
discarded near his car. The thieves simply attach the new stolen ones with
bluetac !
11/1 Tuesday 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. Switchback Road South.
Index plates stolen from a car – RF 03 LNN. Nothing so
far on ANPR.
11/1 Tuesday 7 p.m. Golden Ball Lane. Car rear windscreen
smashed – laptop, bank cards, passport and car keys stolen. The owner
had just got home and left the car locked while he went inside for 5
minutes………..You have been warned. This happens all the time.
11/1 Tuesday 6.30 p.m. Grafton Close. Index plates stolen
– LD 02 GSV. Nothing yet on ANPR.
11/1 Tuesday 11 p.m. Penyston Road. Car window smashed
– not known if anything stolen.
Eyes and ears !
Keep safe.
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