Crime: 27 July 2012

I have purchased with funds you helped us obtain – the Safe as Houses Campaign - a few years ago, purse bells, which I have sent over to for the reception desk at Maidenhead Police Station.  Please feel free to go in and collect a set – with our compliments.  As the Olympics approaches, we will no doubt be targeted by teams of very experienced dippers (pick pockets).  We have already had purses stolen from handbags in Windsor Town centre last weekend – don’t let it be you !  Cancelling cards and sorting out all the mess of losing a purse, just isn’t worth it.

Derbyshire Police are investigating a burglary where valuable antiques and paintings have been stolen.  They have asked us to circulate their press release and a photo of one of the paintings.  Both are attached.

Your individual Neighbourhood Updates are being prepared by you local Teams and loaded on the Neighbourhood Pages of TVP’s website.  I have set out each Neighbourhood below.  The email address is the group email for your Neighbourhood.  If you need to contact them, please use this email.  Beneath that is the link to your Neighbourhood Page on TVP’s website.  You will se photos of your local officers, your 3 NAG priorities, dates of any meetings and of course – your Neighbourhood Updates.

NEXT FROM THE BOROUGH:

Royal Borough Volunteer Awards 2012

The Royal Borough launched its first Volunteer Awards on Thursday 28 June, to recognise the outstanding contribution that individuals or groups, make to Council projects and the local community.

Residents are urged to nominate in the following seven categories:-

·       Adopt-a-Street - (businesses, community, individual and schools)

·       Community Project

·       Community Safety - (individual and group)

·       Libraries

·       Museum

·       School Governor

·       Young Volunteer

A Nomination form and guidance on each category can be found on the council’s website:

http://www.rbwm.gov.uk/web/volunteering_awards.htm

If you having problems downloading the forms or would like more information about how to nominate someone for these awards, call the Community Partnership on 01628 796100 or email rbwmawards@rbwm.gov.uk

For the community safety category you can also visit www.rbwmsafety4all.org.uk and learn about last year's community safety awards.

The closing date is Friday 24 August. The winners will be announced at the Volunteer Awards ceremony on Thursday 20 September where the winner will receive an engraved glass trophy and certificate.

Get those entries in!!!

CRIME:

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

cookhamneighbourhood@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk

http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/yournh-tvp-pol-area-n107

NO CRIME TO REPORT.

BOYN HILL, COX GREEN & WOODLANDS PARK :

boynhillcoxgreennhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk

http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/yournh-tvp-pol-area-n108

NO CRIME TO REPORT.

RIVERSIDE & BELMONT :

maidenheadriverside&belmontnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk

http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/yournh-tvp-pol-area-n192

25/7 – 26/7  Wednesday 7.45 p.m. / Thursday 9 a.m.   Ray Park Avenue .  Garage break – garage left INSECURE – 2 bikes stolen.

INNER MAIDENHEAD:

maidenheadtowncentrenhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk

http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/yournh-tvp-pol-area-n193

NO CRIME TO REPORT.

OLDFIELD & BRAY:

oldfield&braynhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk

http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/yournh-tvp-pol-area-n206

25/7  Wednesday 10 a.m. / 5.30 p.m.   Walker Road .  Burglary via forced ground floor window – house searched – jewellery stolen.

24/7 – 25/7  Tuesday 11 p.m. / Wednesday 0.15 a.m.   Greenfields.  Spare wheel stolen from under a VW transporter van.

PINKNEYS GREEN & FURZE PLATT:

Pinkneysgreen&furzeplattnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk

http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/yournh-tvp-pol-area-n213

22/7 – 25/7  Sunday 7 p.m. / Wednesday  9 a.m.   Camden Road .  Tyre slashed – a part of a Stanley knife blade was found embedded in the tyre.

25/7 – 26/7  Wednesday 9.30 p.m. / Thursday 7.30 a.m.   Oaken Grove.  Car rear windscreen smashed – no search of car.

MEMBERS COMMENTS:

I have had this in from Richard one of our members.  If anything like this happens to you, or you see a scrap van touring your area, anyone going up and down driveways, please, please, PLEASE, PHONE IT THROUGH TO THE PEC ON 101:

Hello Jeff

I've just had a visit from 2 men in a small unmarked dark blue van, INDEX xxx xxxx.  They said my chimney cowling hadn't been positioned precisely in the centre of the chimney and needed to be fixed.  I said that British Gas, who service my boiler, hadn't found anything wrong with it over many years - at which point they left.  They looked like travellers, and probably were.  We all need to be on the alert for such people.  I report the incident for what it's worth!

Regards

Richard

I am really grateful to Richard and all of you that phone these suspicious vehicles through to us.  They must be reported to the PEC on the 101 number.  We have teams of people monitoring this behaviour at HQ and they trawl the police computers for such calls.  This lunchtime of the TV was a programme about scams – one cowboy builder had conned two elderly women, out of over £100,000 !  Neighbours in both cases, were very suspicious when the saw the quality of work being undertaken, but in each case, the house owner said they didn’t want any help, as the builder was so nice, they liked and trusted them – and the work needed to be done, ‘the builder said so’.  Often, elderly and vulnerable people want to retain their independence and may know they have made a mistake, but have no idea how to correct it, or get their money back.  If you see work being done on any elderly, lonely, vulnerable neighbour’s house, simply email your Neighbourhood Team on the group email address above.  They will then arrange ‘to happen to walk past’ at an appropriate moment and have a word with the house owner – and the builder !  If anyone of pensionable age wants any work done to their property, they should contact Louise Tyson at Repair with Care on:

LTyson@mdha.co.uk

She will assist them with her List of Trustworthy Tradesmen.  This list covers any form of work that is required from gardening, plumbing, electrics, etc. to roofing and tarmaccing.  Louise is preparing a factsheet for me about the services and charges for Repair With Care.  She also has a handy-van at a very reasonable hourly rate, for small jobs.

Every one of us needs to do what Richard has done – and phone through these people with good descriptions and vehicle indexes.  That way we can protect our elderly and more vulnerable neighbours.

Our thanks Richard for making the effort to make contact with me.  I forwarded his report to all sorts of departments including the RBWM Community wardens to be on the lookout.  I got an immediate response from our Force CID:

‘Jeff, this is a traveller type van that has recently been stopped in Slough on 11^th, please encourage Richard to call it in, as they will then have a second AV record against the index’. (AV means the vehicle is being used in suspicious circumstances and it is ‘of interest’ to the police)

NHW is not about talking – it’s about doing !

New SCAMS:

I like to keep sending these out, so they stay fresh in your mind.  These people use every trick in the book to scam us and the more you have seen, the less likely you are to fall for one when it arrives !

Hi Jeff,

In an attempt to keep your scam files up to date, that is if you don't already have it, have forwarded to you a new, to me, email scam, I received today.

Subject:  "Your Payment"

Looks very interesting, but as it was sent to "undisclosed recipients" and that I would expect my bank, or the relevant government department, to contact me, I have assumed the e-mail is a scam.

Have also forwarded to the Action Fraud that I extracted from the .pdf file in your latest update.

Regards and thanks for a good job

John

-----Original Message-----
From: UK TREASURY [mailto:infouserr04@gmail.com]
Sent: 25 July 2012 04:00
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Your Payment

THE DEPARTMENT OF THE UK TREASURY OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSET CONTROL REGULATIONS.

1 Horse Guards Road London SW1A 2HQ , UK

Tel:  +44-024079247

T/Fax:+44-031932757

Dr.Gordon Spiff

Director, Compliance Board

Lincoln   R. Charles

General Counsel

Dear Sir/Madam,

SUBJECT: PAYMENT OF ACCUMULATED INTEREST SUM, AMOUNT USD1.2M(ONE MILLION, TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND ONLY)

This is to inform you that we have just received a NOTIFICATION from a bank here (LLOYDS TSB) concerning a deposited funds of US$1.2M in their custody. Based on the letter of notification from the bank, they said that some time ago, a fund was sent to their bank from Africa to be transferred to your account as the beneficiary, but due to inability of the Bank to settle all clearance problems with the UK Treasury Department concerning the source of the fund, the fund was repatriated and payment cancelled.

The bank informed us that during the time this fund stayed in their custody waiting for clearance, it had an accumulated interest sum of US$1.2M and from further information, we have discovered that you are the beneficiary of the fund; hence we send you this letter.

We are ready to release this interest sum either by KTT (KEY TESTED TELEX TRANSFER) or by ATM CREDIT CARD SYSTEM (recommended) to you within 72hrs of this payment notice and endorsement as soon as we hear from you; hence we are sending you this payment notification to enable you come forward to claim the interest sum. Note that we recommend to release this interest sum to you by ATM CREDIT CARD SYSTEM because CARD PAYMENT SYSTEM is fast and easy and the bank will only have to process your card and load your funds directly in the card and dispatch it to you within 72hrs of this same payment order.

And since it is an accumulated interest payment, it will not require you to present any clearance documents like Anti-terrorist or money laundering clearance certificates etc as in the release of your contract sum or bank to bank wire. This method does not waste time, because once you comply with the issuing procedures for the card, your payment is guaranteed. And the Card Value shall be: US$1.2M only and you are advised that a maximum withdrawal value of $35,000.00 USD is permitted on withdrawal per day. Be further informed that as the bank is duly inter-switched with banks all over the world, you can make withdrawals at any Card Cash Center of your choice in the world.

You should get back to this office without delay.

Attn:   Dr.Cyril Guy

NEXT A PHONE SCAM:

Hi Jeff,

I was talking to a PCSO lady on the bus today and she said I should send this experience I had on to you.

On Tuesday 24th July at 0926 I received a text message on my mobile.

Quote "We have been trying to contact you regarding your accident, we now have details of how much you are due, just reply CLAIM and we will call you back" Unquote.

I have not suffered any sort of accident. So this is a fraud. I did not send any response back.

Regards

Michael

It is – when you call back – it is at premium rate !!