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Crime: 23 August 2011

We have seen a small increase in general crime recently. This is partly due to several of our most prolific offenders all being released from prison at the same time. We and now you kow they are out and about again. That puts the responsibility on us, not to put temptation in their way. We must help them to stay on the correct path. The more difficult it is to offend, the less likely they are to do it – SO – First rule - please lock your cars when you leave them. We are receiving reports from NHW Members that they have seen youths walking along parked cars, trying car door handles. If the car is open, they will look inside to see if there are any easy pickings, so the Second rule – leave nothing on display. A jacket may contain a wallet, a plastic bag may contain something of value, a sports bag, trainers etc etc. You know it makes sense.< br /> Next, can everyone lock their houses at night when they go to bed ? Sounds pretty basic crime prevention advice, but it appears necessary. The best crime prevention tool is an alarm. Our opportunist thieves know nothing about alarms and will avoid them. If you have one – you must remember to set it at night and whenever you go out – just make it a habit. Soapbox over !

A member of our Old Windsor NHW, phoned the police during the early hours over the weekend, to say they had seen a car driving around, acting suspiciously. Fortunately - being well trained and informed via Ringmaster - they knew to take the index number. The police attended immediately but could not locate the car. They attended so quickly, because the car was registered on the Police National Computer (PNC) as suspicious ! It already had 2 markers against the index, showing it had been seen before in suspicious circumstances. Rely on your instincts, they are always correct - they come from way back in our genetic background, when we really needed them. Now we tend to disregard, what we have been given, to keep ourselves safe. Thank you from us all to that person !

CRIME:
BISHAM, COOKHAM, HURLEY, THE WALTHAMS, LITTLEWICK GREEN & KNOWL HILL:

19/8 – 21/8 Friday 6 p.m. / Sunday 6 p.m. Farm, Bradenham Lane. BMW parked on farm with a key under a brick nearby – car stolen. It pinged an ANPR camera on the Britwell Road in Burnham at 3.45 p.m. on Sunday.
22/8 Monday 4 a.m. / 7 a.m. Cookham Lock, Odney Lane. Lead stolen from the roof of the amenity building. Fisherman saw 2 lads on the roof and challenged them. The lads made off across the common.
14/8 – 19/8 Popes Lane, Cookham Dean. Bike stolen.
22/9 Monday Farm, Honey Lane. Steel container broken into – welder and steel saw stolen. A car was also abandoned and set on fire in Honey Lane. This was something to do with a crime in Henley.
21/8 – 22/8 Sunday 9.15 p.m. / Monday 8 p.m. Business in Shulock Row, Waltham St Lawrence. Thieves cut through the chains on a gate, then removed a padlock from outbuildings – 6 saddle stones stolen. There were extremely heavy and valuable.

BOYN HILL, COX GREEN & WOODLANDS PARK:
21/8 - 22/8 Sunday 9 p.m. / Monday 9 a.m. Boyn Hill Road. Large statue stolen from the front garden – drag marks left across the lawn. The owner remembers that recently there was a suspicious incident. A black woman, 5’1’’, about 20, slim, long dark hair in a pony tail, wearing black jeans and a black jacket, asked her about the statue saying she really liked it. She even asked to have her photograph taken standing beside it ! That would have been enough for me !!
21/8 Sunday 10.50 a.m. / 12.15 p.m. East Road – bike stolen.
20/8 – 21/8 Saturday 9.30 p.m. Boyn Valley Road. Side lights and wheel arches stolen wing mirrors damaged from a Citroen Saxo.

RIVERSIDE & BELMONT:
22/8 Monday 4 p.m. Belmont Vale. Burglary – Thieves walked along side passage and forced a garden gate. Rear basement door forced – this activated the alarm, and the thief immediately made off. A neighbour heard the alarm and saw 2 men make off in a grey BMW.
22/8 Monday 4.40 p.m. Ray Mill Road West. Burglary. The owner who was not at home received a call from a neighbour to say there was someone in his home. He immediately dialled 999. The police carried out an area search, but no one was found. The point of entry had been an INSECURE rear door. The men were witnessed making off and the only description we have of them is that they were ‘dirty’.
19/8 – 20/8 Friday / Saturday Savoy Court. Wall sprayed with graffiti

INNER MAIDENHEAD:
20/8 Saturday High Street, Nicholson’s Walk & Moorbridge Road– bikes stolen.
18/8 – 19/8 West Street. Thieves climbed over a fence into a yard – rear lights stolen from a van

OLDFIELD & BRAY:
No crime to report.


PINKNEYS GREEN & FURZE PLATT:
19/8 Friday 11 a.m. / 7 p.m. Switchback Road North. Index plates stolen.
22/8 Monday 4 a.m. Malvern Road. Burglary. Then owner was awoken when their dog barked and went to investigate. They disturbed a man in one of the rooms who immediately made off scrambling out of a window, dropping Nintendo Wii and phone he had stolen.

 


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