Crime: 29 June 2011

A few things to mention.

Firstly - we seem to have had a series of churches broken into in rural locations. The thieves have targeted the safes hoping to steal gold and silver church plate. They have used considerable force and caused a lot of damage. These appear to have been carried out on a Sunday evening after services and 2 churches have been targeted each time:
St Mark’s - Bourne End, St Paul’s - Woburn Green, St Peter’s - Knowl Hill, St John’s - Littlewick Green, St Mary’s - Hurley & St James’ – Maidenhead.

If you have any connection with rural churches, can you have a word with them to make sure nothing is left in the safes over the weekends, for the foreseeable future. If they have valuable plate, it must be secured at this time.

Secondly – You will have been receiving messages about your Neighbourhood Community Consultations, with a link to Survey Monkey to complete the online questionnaire. The results so far are disappointing. If Neighbourhood Policing is to work and deal with local issues, the Team needs to know what those issues are !
The results so far are:
Riverside & Belmont Returns so far – 127 Closing date Today !
Oldfield & Bray Returns so far – 210 Closing date 15/7

Thirdly – More lead thefts overnight ! Can everyone be extra vigilant looking out for flatbeds and people on roofs in the early hours. How do they get up there ? Please phone through any properties with ladders up to the roof in the early hours for the time being and let us check them out.– PEC 0845 8 505 505 I have attached Caroline’s advice sheet about lead theft.


Crime:
BISHAM, COOKHAM, HURLEY, THE WALTHAMS, LITTLEWICK GREEN & KNOWL HILL:
1/6 – 28/6 School, High Road, Cookham Rise. Lead stolen from library roof.
28/6 – 29/6 Tuesday / Wednesday Church Hill. Break in to farm. Green Kowasaki Quad bike locked and clamped to a post in the ground stolen. The Quad Bike is fitted with a tracker, so it may be sitting somewhere quietly in the area, waiting to see if the police recover it before removing it completely. The chances are it was loaded onto the back of a flatbed. Did you see a flatbed with a green Quad bike on the back ?
27/6 – 28/6 Monday 10.30 p.m. Tuesday 5.30 a.m.. Broadmoor Road, Waltham St Lawrence. About £10,000 worth of lead stolen ! Repeat victim.

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

RIVERSIDE & BELMONT:
27/6 – 28/6 Monday 10 p.m. / Tuesday 3 a.m. St Luke’s Road. A small upper window had been left open for ventilation. A thief reached in and opened a larger window. They climbed in and moved the sofa against the door in case they were disturbed – 2 pouches of tobacco stolen.
28/6 Tuesday 2.30 a.m. Castle Hill Terrace. Garage break and bike stolen. The owner heard a noise and looked out of a window to see a young lad about 18 – 25 in a dark hoody walking off with the bike.

INNER MAIDENHEAD:
28/6 Tuesday 10.30 p.m. Moorbridge Road Store cupboard opened and ruibbish set alight – repeat problem.
27/6 Monday Howarth Road. Long ladder stolen from on top of a trade vehicle. CCTV simply shows 2 young men in hoodys. The ladder was recovered yesterday with the lead in Bridge Avenue.

OLDFIELD & BRAY:
24/6 – 28/6 Curls Road. Car passenger door forced in underground car park – searched and CDs left outside the car.

PINKNEYS GREEN & FURZE PLATT:
27/6 – 28/6 Monday 8 p.m. / Tuesday 8.50 a.m. Allenby Road. Thieves climbed over an 8ft fence to steal a bike from a locked area.
28/6 Tuesday 3 – 4 a.m. Furze Platt Road. Car left INSECURE – CDs & sunglasses stolen.

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