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Crime: 11 February 2011

I have run out of time this week for a full message and I apologise in advance. The crime in this message goes up to Wednesday.

MAY I POINT ONCE AGAIN – LOTS OF THE CARS TARGETED, WERE LEFT INSECURE ! The thieves simply walk along the road trying door handles. – 2 issues - they don’t even have to break in and members of the public should be reporting suspicious kids trying car door handles.

NEXT ! Flatbeds. It is only when circulating House to House Enquiry forms after a crime has been reported that we hear a suspicious flatbed – long lorries with drop down sides / cage on the back for scrap - has been in driving slowly around the area, looking up and down driveways. Often we hear someone has been found on a driveway, disturbed and asked to leave – but only afterwards, never at the time. What should happen, is you see someone off/ they drive slowly up and down your road, take a good look at them and any van, then phone the police immediately on the 0800 8 505 505 number giving a full report of the incident – let us be the judge of how useful that information / intelligence is ! DON’T THINK - PHONE !

This is from Inspector Pete Dalton who is the Windsor Neighbourhood Inspector – but the message, is for the whole area. I include this to show that we really do want you to call:

The Police are requesting the community to be vigilant, following an increase in cars stolen from the street for their scrap metal value. Recent increases in the price of scrap metal, have enabled criminals to profit from the theft of older cars. Thieves normally use a recovery, or tow truck. Police are therefore requesting the public to report any suspicious activity involving tow trucks/ and unmarked removal vehicles on the street – particularly if it doesn’t look like the owner is present. Where possible, record both the car and van’s index numbers, any phone numbers on the vans and descriptions of people involved”.

THINK PHONE – DID YOU GET A CALL FROM THESE PEOPLE OR ANYONE SIMILAR ? DID YOU PHONE IT THROUGH ???
 

This is from one of our very caring case investigators:
I was speaking to an aggrieved today, who lives in All Saints Avenue. She was burgled on Tuesday. She mentioned that a man called at her home last Sunday, offering to sell medals & her neighbour also had a man & girl visit their property this week offering medals for sale.
They also spied a consul table in the hall and asked if this was for sale !


HEALTH WARNING RE – ‘POLICE.UK’ CRIME MAPPING WEBSITE:
I am taking calls re the new ‘police.uk’ website. May I remind you:
1. The data displayed, only relates to December 2010. There will be no maps showing crimes before that date, but January 2011 will go up soon.
2. If your house is in a road with less than 12 dwellings / postal addresses, any crime that takes place in your road, will be plotted to the nearest large road – that may of course mean that crimes appear in roads, which have in fact not suffered any crime !
3. ASB figures – A neighbour dispute, in which both sides call the police perhaps 3 or 4 times a night, day after day, will all show up as individual calls relating to ASB. Therefore you may find a very high number, which in fact all ties down to one ongoing Neighbour Dispute.
4. The way the site looks. The site as advertised needs a very modern version of your Internet Browser to see it fully. If you have an old version all you will get is a circle around a map with a street list of crime. You will not be able to see the actual map with incident dots.

As I was at the launch with the Home Secretary and Chief Constable and we in this area, have pioneered open and transparent information, I have been asked by the Area Commander Tim De Meyer, to work with the site developers, to improve it from a residents point of view. Consequently, any suggestions as top how it could be improved would really be appreciated.

CRIME:
BISHAM, COOKHAM, HURLEY, THE WALTHAMS, LITTLEWICK GREEN & SHURLOCK ROW:

29/1 – 5/2 Church Hill, White Waltham. Unlocked storage area entered – scrap metal stolen. A suspicious van was seen a few days before driving around the area looking for scrap – no-one phoned us !
6/2 Sunday 1.30 a.m. Waltham Road. CCTV shows a 4X4 driving through a fence into a compound then out through a hedge causing a lot of damage. The car was then burnt out. We believe it was stolen from the forecourt of a garage in Wraysbury.
3/2 – 4/2 Thursday 11.45 p.m. / Friday 7 a.m. Broadmoor Road, Waltham St. Lawrence. Lead stolen from a garage roof – for the second time.
3/2 – 4/2 Westwood Green, Cookham Rise. Pram stolen from a porch – have you seen one abandoned anywhere ?

BOYN HILL, COX GREEN & WOODLANDS PARK:
3/2 – 4/2 Thursday 10 p.m. / Friday 11 a.m. Gainsborough Drive X 4, Cox Green. Car searched and house keys found – attempt to use them on the rear door of the house but they became stuck in the lock – tools were stolen from the garage. Burglary through forced side door – 2 mobiles, 2 laptops & wallet stolen. The wallet was later recovered – minus contents – at the underpass between Cox Green Road & Norreys Drive. INSECURE car entered – nothing taken. INSECURE car entered – SAT NAV and loose change stolen.
5/2 – 6/2 Saturday / Sunday Palmers Close, Cox Green. Car passenger window damaged.
5/2 Saturday midnight / 6.30 p.m. Westborough Road. Vamoose Burglary via front door – keys and a Volvo C30 index LM 60 XXE stolen.
4/2 Friday midnight / 6 a.m. Cadwell Drive, Cox Green. Burglary via front door – 2 X boxes, hand bags keys and a black Vauxhall Vivaro. The car was recovered at White Waltham Airfield.

4/2 Friday 1 a.m. / 8.15 a.m. Lees Close X 2 INSECURE car entered – nothing stolen. INSECURE car stolen. loose change stolen.

4/2 Friday 6.45 a.m. Wessex Way. Pick up truck pulled up behind a car, winched it up and drove off – Renault Laguna stolen.

RIVERSIDE & BELMONT:
No crime to report as at Wednesday

INNER MAIDENHEAD:

No crime to report as at Wednesday

OLDFIELD & BRAY:
6/2 Sunday 6.15 p.m. Holyport Road. Garage break – items removed and left outside.
5/2 Saturday 11 p.m. Hearne Drive. Glass panel damaged in front door – for the 2nd time.
4/2 – 5/2 Friday 5.30 p.m. / Saturday 10 a.m. Norden Road. Car windscreen wipers damaged.
5/2 – 6/2 Saturday 9 p.m. / Sunday 8.10 a.m. Chauntry Road. Car passenger door lock forced – cash, bike and uniform stolen.

Eyes and ears - Have a good weekend.


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