Crime: 1 February 2012

Firstly you will see a string of opportunist burglaries in Boyn Hill. These seem to all be in the early hours, entry via the rear, small portable items easily transferred into cash have been stolen – particularly handbags. It is essential therefore that we locate any stolen, but discarded handbags / sports bags, as they may contain forensic evidence, linking the burglaries together and, to an offender. We also need everyone to be on the alert and look out for suspicious people, cars and people on bikes, out and about in the early hours. We have patrol vehicles out and about at all times, ready to respond to your calls. IF IN DOUBT – CALL 101.

We are also having problems with theft of spare wheels – that is the wheel and the tyre being stolen from cars / vans where the spare is stored under the car / van and is easily accessible. Thieves wrench the retaining bracket from its fixing under the car, which releases the wheel. To have this fixed and buy another wheel is a very expensive business ! Eyes and ears please. If you have a car / van which has this – please pay additional care re security for the time being. If you have a garage filled with junk – empty it out and store your much more valuable car there instead ???

Thirdly, I have received this message from IVD who write the Ringmaster / Community Messaging software. Some members have been having problems with messages, since they upgraded their system 10 days ago:

Hello Jeff,

Yes - it is good practice to suggest that recipients add your ‘Ringmaster broadcast email address to their address books. This instructs their provider to ‘white list’ your messages

We have migrated your system to a new more efficient mail server infrastructure. Some providers (AOL and Yahoo in particular) throttle and distribute messages based on mail server reputation which takes time to establish. Pre-migration test messages to our IVD AOL and Yahoo accounts resulted in successful delivery to our primary inboxes and was not flagged as spam

Regards,

Steven Jenkins
I.V. Developments Ltd

CRIME:
BISHAM, COOKHAM, HURLEY, THE WALTHAMS, LITTLEWICK GREEN & KNOWL HILL:
cookhamneighbourhood@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk

No crime to report

BOYN HILL, COX GREEN & WOODLANDS PARK:
boynhillcoxgreennhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
31/1 Tuesday 12.45 p.m. – 3.15 p.m. Clare Road X 2. Burglary via forced front door panel. House searched – worktops and skirting boards removed - cash and bank cards stolen. The offenders were possibly searching for gold jewellery. Burglary of house nearby – entry via forced rear French windows – house searched – gold jewellery stolen.
30/1 Monday 8 a.m. / 6 p.m. Grenfell Place. Burglary via forced rear window – house searched – exited by rear patio door which had the key left ion it – mobile X 2, Wii X 2, laptops X 2, watches X 3, cash, camera and sunglasses X2 stolen.
30/1 Monday 2 a.m. / 9 a.m. Webster Close. Bike stolen from rear garden. The thief would have had to climb over a flat roof as well as remove the bike this way as the garden gate was padlocked.
30/1 Monday 0.15 a.m. / 8 a.m. Webster Close. Burglary – entry by UNKNOWN MEANS – ground floor searched – mobile, sat nav together with handbag and contents stolen. Have you found / seen the contents of a handbag discarded anywhere ?
30/1 Monday 0.30 a.m. / 8 a.m. Holmwood Close. Burglary – entry via INSECURE rear door – this burglary only came to light when the contents of the owners handbag was found discarded in Castle Hill and the police attended to return it.
18/1 – 31/1 Boyn Valley Road. Cigarettes have been used, to burn holes in a plastic car cover.

RIVERSIDE & BELMONT:
maidenheadriverside&belmontnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
31/1 Tuesday 1 p.m. / 7 p.m. Lutman Lane, Furze Platt. Burglary via INSECURE rear door – SAT NAV, laptops X 2 and gold jewellery stolen.
30/1 – 31/1 Monday 5.30 p.m. / Tuesday 9.30 a.m. Maidenhead Court Park. Car left INSECURE – Ipod, SAT NAV, laptop, purse and contents stolen.
30/1 – 31/1 Monday 11.30 p.m. / Tuesday 7 a.m. Sheephouse Road. Burglary via rear patio doors – computer, golf equipment, wallet plus contents, camera, sports bag and sunglasses stolen.
29/1 – 30/1 Sunday 12 noon / Monday 3.30 p.m. Lower Cookham Road. Bike stolen from garage under construction.

INNER MAIDENHEAD:
maidenheadtowncentrenhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
30/1 Monday 8 p.m. / 9 p.m. Park Street. Insecure bike left in an alleyway stolen.
31/1 Tuesday 12.30 p.m. / 1.30 p.m. Stirling Grove. Burglary – laptop, Xbox and games, cash and meter box stolen.
30/1 Sunday 4.30 p.m. Kingsquarter. Front door lock, frame and keypad to block of flats damaged.

OLDFIELD & BRAY:
oldfield&braynhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
31/1 Tuesday 10 p.m. Brownfield Gardens. The owner heard noises outside and went to investigate – they saw a man climbing over their fence. A bike had been taken from their bike shed and was about to be passed over the fence. The man was detained until the police arrived and he was arrested.

PINKNEYS GREEN & FURZE PLATT:
pinkneysgreen&furzeplattnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk

No crime to report

Eyes and ears.

FROM THE BOROUGH:

Community safety encourages residents to ‘love their community’

The Royal Borough’s community safety partnership, is encouraging residents to support a variety of activities during the borough’s second annual - Love Your Community Week - which runs from Monday 13 February, to Friday 17 February.
Following the official launch by the Mayor, Cllr Asghar Majeed, at Maidenhead Library on Monday 13 February at 10.30am, RBWM Community Wardens, Police, members of Housing Associations and Residents’ Associations will be out and about in the Borough:
•carrying out a clean-up with the National Trust (The Thicket)
•hosting Crime Reduction and Information stands (Old Windsor Day Centre, Woodlands Park Community Centre and Tesco in Datchet)
•launching Ascot Youth Club’s Love Your Community Week - YouTube™ video.
Cllr Phill Bicknell, cabinet member with responsibility for Community Safety, said: “Community involvement is key to a safer community for all and ‘Love Your Community Week’ enables us to work with our many partners and embody the spirit of the Big Society.
“The week is not a one-off – we work tirelessly throughout the year with our partners to deal robustly with issues that matter to residents and ensure that incidents of crime and anti-social behaviour reduce. The borough has a zero tolerance policy towards litter and graffiti and our community wardens will fine anyone committing anti-social behaviour including littering and dog fouling.
“I would urge anyone living in the borough to support their local event to learn more about the work that community safety does. I will be coming along to many of the events and look forward to seeing as many of you there as possible.”

SCAMS:
We are still getting calls right across the area for the Microsoft / now Windows Scam:
Hi Jeff,
I`ve just had a phone call supposedly from Windows Helpline telling me my computer is in great difficulties and he needs to help me. He gave me a phone number, but I just put the phone down,
Norma

Well done Norma !

Hi jeff,
Once again, I have received a phone call from someone professing to be from Microsoft, trying to gain information about my PC and passwords etc. so I told him where to go yet again. I feel this is worth another warning as I am obviously, not the only one he is contacting.
Arthur

The next one from Robert, has an ‘attachment’ which we have been told, we must not open !

Hi Jeff, I have just received this and remembered I must not open any suspicious attachments !

Dear PayPal account holder,

PayPal is constantly working to ensure security by regularly screening the accounts in our system. We have recently determined that different computers have tried logging into your PayPal account,and multiple password failures were present before the logons.

Until we can collect secure information, your access to sensitive account features will be limited. We would like to restore your access as soon as possible, and we apologize for the inconvenience.

Case ID Number: PP-001-489-591-622

What to do next

Download and fill out the form to resolve the problem and then log into your account.