Crime: 21 January 2011

A much better end to the week – lets hope everyone remains alert over the weekend.

We have charged certain individuals today with 6 offences, ranging from Robbery to theft from cars. We are continually doing our bit, we need you to help us by reporting anyone out and about who is up to no good !

Re car crime – you will see from the crimes below, 3 of the cars were left insecure !

I asked the Priority Crime Team if the owners of these cars believed they had locked them and something has happened – the answer ? No, the owners had left them unlocked ! As I keep pointing out – that becomes a ‘crime attractor’ to your road and Neighbourhood. Easy pickings – the thieves don’t even have to break in – they simply open the car door ! This makes the Police’s life very difficult and results in the increased crime headlines, you may have seen this week.   Increased crimes, means…….more victims of crime. It is bad enough having your life disrupted by being a victim of crime, but if it is your fault and could easily have been avoided by doing something everyone else does as a matter of course, it must make it 100 times worse. Everyone is expected to protect their hard earned property – locking a car isn’t hard, nor is it expensive &nda sh; the locks come free with the car !!!

As you can see in Lower Cookham Road, they found a car unlocked one night and came back the next, to commit a burglary as well as try other cars – they were lucky ! If they had never been in nor attracted to the road – no easy pickings, the burglary and other car crimes in that area, may never have happened.

CRIME:
BISHAM, COOKHAM, HURLEY THE WALTHAMS, LITTLEWICK GREEN & SHURLOCK ROW:
No crime to report.

BOYN HILL, COX GREEN & WOODLANDS PARK:
No crime to report.

RIVERSIDE & BELMONT:
As a result of the sudden increase in crime across this area – the Police have increased their patrols.
19/1 Wednesday 5.30 p.m. / 9.45 p.m. Lower Cookham Road. Mercedes left UNLOCKED – Sat Nav stolen.
20/1 Thursday 11 a.m. / 3.45 p.m. Lower Cookham Road. Burglary via forced rear conservatory door – Laptop & jewellery stolen.
19/1 – 20/1 Wednesday 8.45 p.m. / Thursday 8 a.m. Summerleaze Road. Honda left UNLOCKED – Sat Nav stolen.
19/1 – 20/1 Wednesday 10.30 p.m. / Thursday 8.30 a.m. Blackamoor Lane. Ford Mondeo left UNLOCKED – laptop & mobile phone charger stolen.

INNER MAIDENHEAD:
No crime to report.

OLDFIELD & BRAY:
19/1 – 20/1 Wednesday 6 p.m. / Thursday 3 p.m. Rixman Close. Index plates stolen Y 438 TDA

PINKNEYS GREEN & FURZE PLATT:
20/1 Thursday 1.30 p.m. / 6.30 p.m. Switchback Road South. Burglary via forced small side window, reaching in to open a larger window – 2 laptops and a large amount of cash stolen.

Suspicious individuals out and about and must be reported immediately to the police, so that we can carry out an Area Search and locate them.

If you see a crime in these lists, it means ‘Opportunist Thieves’ are about in that community – someone walking a dog, dropping kids off somewhere, looking out of windows, must see them. They do not have a magic transporter, like the one in Star Trek. They have to walk around looking for possible targets – that is when we need your calls to give us the grounds to stop them and ask what they are doing and why they are in that location. If nothing else, it will deter them from offending and they may chose pastures new.

 We had a manhole cover lifted in a busy Windsor street and thieves pulled out 150 metres of copper cable in broad daylight.  No-one saw anything - even when the stood and rolled it up, loaded into a car / van and drove off.  Walking around with a Hi Viz jacket, clip board / fake ID makes that person invisible.  They must be officials doing whatever they are doing.  Next time just take a closer look - We can also stop check anyone wearing Hi Viz ! 

Have a good weekend.

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