Crime: 21 November 2012
I heard this phrase today and really liked
it as it sums up so much !
‘you snooze
- you loose’ !
We have a slight burglary spike across the
Borough, so it is even more important that you phone through anyone out
and about that you feel is suspicious / out of place / walking up and
down driveways. I have had loads of email reports of Nottingham
Knockers (young unemployed lads / straight out of prison, trying to go
straight selling household products, from large shoulder bags) right
across the area – we are awash with them ! Due to this current
spike can you PLEASE phone through on the 101 number, anyone going door
to door. That includes Nottingham knockers, double glazing, roof
moss, soffits – whatever – even leaflet deliverers ! If they
are legitimate, they won’t mind answering a few questions from a PCSO. Full
descriptions please particularly recognisable features / tattoos /
piercings / hair colour / style etc. etc. etc.. I have attached
once again – ‘How and when to contact the police’ and the handout
on ‘door to door salesmen’. It really helps us to deploy our
resources, if we know who is out there – particularly in the early
hours. They may not be offending that day – but looking for
potential future targets !!!
I am about to go on annual leave –
climbing volcanoes in the Far East this time !!! I will be back in
the office in early January.
There has been a continuous stream of
metal thefts from driveways / cars (Catalytic converters) / houses being
renovated / public buildings etc. in the last few months. new
legislation is about to come in (see below) which may help to prevent
this. As Jeff Tewkesbury in Slough, will be covering for me while I
am on leave, can you send any indexes / photos and descriptions of scrap
/ flatbed lorries, though to him please ?
CRIME:
BISHAM, COOKHAM, HURLEY, THE WALTHAMS,
LITTLEWICK GREEN & KNOWL HILL:
Neighbourhood Page:
NO CRIME TO
REPORT.
BOYN HILL, COX GREEN & WOODLANDS
PARK:
Neighbourhood Page:
20/11 Tuesday 2.30 p.m. / 6.15 p.m. Grenfell
Place. Burglary. Rear kitchen door forced – tidy search. They
were disturbed by 2 dogs on the property and managed to make off with a
mobile phone box !
RIVERSIDE & BELMONT:
Neighbourhood Page:
19/11 Monday 10.45 p.m. Shifford
Crescent. Restaurant window cracked.
19/11 Monday 9 p.m. Bridge
Road. Car window smashed – Work bag containing papers and
clothes stolen. This was found by a member of the public in Bray
and returned – nothing was stolen.
INNER MAIDENHEAD:
Neighbourhood Page:
NO CRIME TO
REPORT.
OLDFIELD & BRAY:
Neighbourhood Page:
19/11 Monday 3 p.m. / 7.45 p.m. Bray
Road. Burglary. Rear kitchen window forced with a
screwdriver. Untidy search – safe and contents stolen. This
is probably the third safe we have had stolen in the last couple of
weeks. One was levered away from the wall. How do the thieves
know they are there ??? if you have a safe – only family members
should know of its existence.
19/11 – 20/11 Monday 9 p.m. /
Tuesday 7.30 a.m. Monkey Island Lane. Car window
smashed – suitcase of clothing stolen. Has
this been abandoned nearby ?
19/11 Monday 7.45 p.m. / 10 p.m. Hasting
Close. Attempt to steal index plates. Car parked beside
it, did have them stolen.
17/11 – 19/11 Saturday 5.30 p.m. /
Monday 9 p.m. Windsor Road. Burglary. Entry point
– forced rear wooden French doors. Fountain pen, watches X 3,
Coin collection stolen.
19/11 Monday 6 p.m. / 7.30 p.m. Springfield
Park. Car keyed.
19/11 Monday 6.15 p.m. Langdale
Close. DISTRACTION BURGLARY – THE
FIRST FOR MONTHS. Someone knocked at the door and
explained that they had lost their ball over the garden fence, could he
help them look for it. The owner took the man through the house to
the conservatory towards the garden. They were unable to turn on
the outside lights, so they went to find a torch, leaving the man alone. The
torch was in a handbag, which could not be found. The man then
asked to change some money. The owner started to become suspicious
and asked the man to leave – which he did. The handbag was
missing. Later they got a phone call from ‘the police’, asking
for the PIN numbers for the cards in the handbag. By then they were
really suspicious and did not give them. The handbag has been
recovered discarded nearby. Lots of
learning here. The basic rule is that ‘NO-ONE COMES INTO YOUR
HOME, UNLESS YOU KNOW THEM – OR THEY HAVE MADE AN APPOINTMENT’.
NO-ONE WHO
APPEARS AT YOUR DOOR UNANNOUNCED, EVER COMES INSIDE
–
WHATEVER THE EXCUSE. IF SOMEONE IS IN PANIC AND NEEDS SOMETHING –
TELL THEM TO WAIT ON THE DOORSTEP, WHILE YOU DO THE NECESSARY. As
you go back inside – you lock the door and do not leave it on the
latch – then phone the police on the 101 number.
PINKNEYS GREEN & FURZE PLATT:
Neighbourhood Page:
19/11 – 20/11 Monday / Tuesday Oldershaw
Mews – car keyed.
INFORMATION
WHICH I FELT YOU MIGHT FIND USEFUL:
SCRAP METAL
LEGISLATION:
Just in case you have not seen the new
scrap metal legislation, which will be in force from 3/12/12. Hopefully
it will result in a reduction in scrap metal offences.
The act prohibits cash payments for scrap
metal (only payment by cheque or an electronic transfer of funds will be
acceptable), thereby providing an audit process of a readily
identifiable account, for both the payee and the payer.
Section 146 of the LASPO Act 2012 provides
that:
(1) A scrap metal dealer must not pay for
scrap metal except—
(a) by a cheque which under section 81A of
the Bills of Exchange Act 1882 is not transferable, or
(b) by an electronic transfer of funds
(authorised by credit or debit card or otherwise).
(2) The Secretary of State may by order
amend subsection (1) to permit other methods of payment.
(3) In this section paying includes paying
in kind (with goods or services).
(4) If a scrap metal dealer pays for scrap
metal in breach of subsection (1), each of the following is guilty of an
offence—
(a) the scrap metal dealer;
(b) a person who makes the payment acting
for the dealer;
(c) a manager who fails to take reasonable
steps to prevent the payment being made in breach of subsection (1).
Those SMDs that may attempt to circumvent
the above, by providing a cheque cashing service, are still in breach of
the act. It is not a situation, where a cheque from a 3rd party is
presented, passed to a bank and processed (or indeed authorised by a
bank) and is therefore not genuine cheque cashing. It is actually
being paid in cash.
Motor Salvage Operators (MSO) do
not come within the scope of the cash prohibition
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