Crime: 21 September 2011

Firstly a couple of messages from members:

Jeff – a well spoken, articulate young woman with a bicycle has knocked on the door within the last hour. She had a credible sob story about having no family, having to get back to Stroud and having not enough money for the train ticket and she seemed upset.

She was tall, with long fair hair, wearing jeans and carrying a shoulder bag. We gave her two pounds.

She said she, ‘...... had come down Mill Lane and somebody had been kind to her,’ She also said that when she was next in Windsor - where she had some ‘clients’ - she would put the money through the letter box.

Is this a confidence trick?

It certainly is and she is well known to us. Ricky the PCSO for Dedworth went and found her and asked her to leave the area. Apparently she is back because PCSO Dave Bullock from the Windsor Town Centre has been to see me this morning, to say she has been calling on residents in Oxford Road, Vansittart Road and River Way !
This message is for everyone in NHW ! Please remember our NHW Motto – ‘we do not buy goods or services at the door’. If anyone comes along with a sob story think about what you are being told – AND - No-one enters your home. You tell them to wait on the doorstep, while you do whatever is necessary, then you lock the door, go back inside and get a drink / chair / make a phone call for them or whatever. This woman will be out there persistently – you now know.

Hi Jeff
During my walks with our Jack Russell around Ascot I quite often come across Gas boilers/cookers/fridges etc left outside properties/gates on the grass verge. When I point out that this is encouraging scrap metal thieves, I get sometimes negative or even rude responses. They or their contractors can't be bothered to take it to the tip for recycling and hope it will be picked up by a "scrap collector".

I guess further education is required - maybe in the Neighbourhood Watch newsletter.

Keep it up.

Brgds GP.

He is absolutely right – if we encourage them, we cannot complain when they do take items from driveways.

CRIME:
BISHAM, COOKHAM, HURLEY, THE WALTHAMS, LITTLEWICK GREEN & KNOWL HILL:
20/9 Tuesday midnight. Milley Lane, Waltham St Lawrence. A car was seen in a field driving around damaging crops. The police were called and attended immediately. They found tracks in the road made by the car which had had a tyre blown out. The car was recovered from Twyford Orchard, but the drivers had decamped.

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

RIVERSIDE & BELMONT:
19/9 – 20/9 Monday 1 a.m. / Tuesday 6 a.m. College Avenue. Garage break – doors forced and frame damaged – lawn mower stolen.
20/9 Tuesday 7.30 p.m. / 8 p.m. Laggan Road. A car was being loaded and a laptop bag was stolen from the boot.

INNER MAIDENHEAD:
No crime to report.

OLDFIELD & BRAY:
No crime to report.

PINKNEYS GREEN & FURZE PLATT:
19/9 – 20/9 Monday 7.10 p.m. / Tuesday 7.50 a.m. Bridle Road. Burglary via forced side garden door and forced rear side door – power tools stolen. The garden shed was searched but nothing stolen. Keys were found in a kitchen drawer and an attempt was made to open items in the house. As you know – keys must be hidden where it would take a thief more than 5 minutes to find.