Crime: 13 February 2012

I have received this request from PC Dan Brown today:
Hi Jeff, can you circulate this request please to your members,

There was a theft of a handbag at Holyport Primary School on 09/02/2012 between 6pm – 8.45pm. There were various documents, banking cards, personal belongings in the bag which may have been discarded in the Holyport, area. The handbag is described as large, beige canvas, with a zip and dark brown handles, similar to Mary Poppins’ handbag, or a Doctor’s bag - according to the owner.

Please can I ask all subscribers, especially those in the Holyport area and around Stroud Farm Road. I suspect that the handbag may have been discarded by the offender either in an alleyway or in a rear garden.

The handbag and contents are not only sentimental, but also integral to our investigation in the hope of identifying a suspect for the offence.

Cheers
Dan Brown

CRIME:
BISHAM, COOKHAM, HURLEY, THE WALTHAMS, LITTLEWICK GREEN & KNOWL HILL:
cookhamneighbourhood@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
10/2 – 13/2 Friday midnight / Monday 6.30 a.m. Sports Centre, Bisham. Car damaged over the weekend.
7/2 – 11/2 Tuesday midnight / Saturday 11 p.m. Burchetts Green Lane.  Garage break – power tools & wine stolen.
12/2 – 13/2 Sunday 9 p.m. / Monday 7 a.m. Maidenhead Road. Locked up and covered bike stolen from front garden.
13/2 midnight. Nursery, Henley Road. Polytunnel cut with possibly a Stanley knife – 200 sets of gardening gloves stolen.
8/2 – 11/2 Wednesday 6 p.m. / Saturday noon. Twyford Road, Waltham St. Lawrence. Lock removed from outhouses which were alarmed – they sounded and the thief made off.

BOYN HILL, COX GREEN & WOODLANDS PARK:
boynhillcoxgreennhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
11/2 – 12/2 Saturday 11 p.m. / Sunday 9.30 a.m. Mercia Road. Car entered BY UNKNOWN MEANS – and stolen. It was later recovered abandoned in a field in Howe Lane, White Waltham, having been driven through a fence.
12/2 Sunday. 1 .am. Repton Close. The owner heard a noise and looked out. They saw their car window smashed and 2 men running away.

RIVERSIDE & BELMONT:
maidenheadriverside&belmontnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
11/2 – 12/2 Saturday / Sunday. Company, Denmark Street. Breeze block thrown through the roof. No entry gained.
10/2 – 11/2 Friday 6.30 p.m. / Saturday 1.15 p.m. St Marks Road. Car keyed. Obscene words.
12/2 Sunday 5.50 p.m. / 6 a.m. Boulter’s Lane. Burglary, rock thrown through rear kitchen window. The thief entered setting off the alarm and immediately making off. When doing house to house enquiries a neighbour reported seeing a man acting suspiciously a few days before looking up and down driveways !!! They obviously do not receive Ringmaster messages !!
11/2 – 12/2 Saturday 11 p.m. / Sunday 9 a.m. Florence Avenue. Burglary of a flat using Letterbox method. Laptop, wallet with contents, camcorder and camera stolen. Some items were discarded in the corridor.
11/2 – 12/2 Saturday 10.30 p.m. / Sunday 2.50 a.m. Maidenhead Court Park. Burglary via INSECURE rear patio door – exit through the same route and an UNLOCKED side garden gate. Mobile, laptop, handbag with contents stolen.

INNER MAIDENHEAD:
maidenheadtowncentrenhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk

No crime to report.

OLDFIELD & BRAY:
oldfield&braynhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
10/2 Friday noon / 2.30 p.m. Rushington Avenue. A window cleaner reported a rear window had been forced – 2 sets of car keys stolen. These will be very expensive to replace and any car on the driveway must be immobilised (spark plugs removed for example) until this has been done. Car keys should never be left on display in a house, but hidden somewhere it would take a thief more than 5 minutes to find AND DEFINITELY NO RACKS OF KEYS WITH LABELS – MR. SMITH’S KEYS No 5, MRS. JONES AT No. 16 !!!!!!
9/2 – 10/2 Thursday 8 p.m. / Friday 7.30 a.m. Norden Road X 2. Car driver’s door bent over to gain access – nothing stolen. Transit broken into – steering lock damaged.

PINKNEYS GREEN & FURZE PLATT:
pinkneysgreen&furzeplattnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
13/2  Monday midnight / 8 a.m. Switchback Road North. Burglary possibly via rear kitchen window left INSECURE: IPOD, laptops X 3, ipad2, Wallet with contents stolen.

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Call barring:
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Georgina

Re Silent Guard:

Dear Jeff,

I am grateful for your emails.

Please can you help, Michelle has kindly posted details of Silent Call Guard, 0844 8722325, it is not an automated service as she suggests. I was on hold for an operator for twenty minutes and gave up, is this the correct number?

A word of warning to your readers, when you Google TPS, or Silent Call Guard/Silent Call, there are a raft of scam sites - I was caught out by one at the end of last year. It even used the TPS logo. You register, then you get a bill for forty odd pounds and get harassed by very threatening folk, using mobiles. I just told them I had their number (my home number will not take withheld numbers, thanks to BT) and would pass it to Trading Standards. That one has been shut down, but others keep appearing. Mindful that you are entering, even on the proper TPS site, your number, name and full address care is needed - the email address Michelle gave is for the real TPS.

Help with either the website, or number for Silent Call Guard would be appreciated, you and your colleagues offer a fantastic service and together with our marvellous PCSOs Dan Surridge and Liz Davidson, we are very grateful and very fortunate too.
Sincerely,

Robert