Crime: 11 March 2013

First.  If I have been slow in responding to emails, I apologise.  I am currently checking through all those people on the database with ‘Communication Issues’.  Those are people who have been ‘auto suspended’ because the Alert system has received a message back from a recipient’s computer, in the form of an incorrect email address bounce-back.....their ‘Inbox was full’......their ‘Out of Office’ was on...in fact any communication back from your computer, to the Alert system.  There are also those new members, (as well as existing members, who change their email address) who fail to ‘Verify’ their email address.  Every time I insert an email address, or update an email address, the Alert system automatically generates a ‘Verification Email’, to show that the email address is in fact correct and live.  Members must respond and ‘Verify’, within 14 days of insertion or change, or they are auto suspended !  We currently have 1,500 members suspended in RBWM out of our 11,000 registered recipients.  There were 2,500 !  We emailed every single one.  1,000 responded and were re-activated.  We are now writing to each of the remaining 1,400.  The response has been brilliant and we are re-activating them as quickly as we can.  I have a team of three volunteers working on this with me and I am sure we all thank Tom, Jenny and Brenda for their hard work in making this happen.

As you know, I generally send messages on Monday / Wednesday and Friday.  I can send additional messages if there is a need.  If you go a week without a message (if I am not away climbing volcanoes), email me to make sure you have not been suspended without your knowledge  !

We are possibly two thirds of the way through !

Secondly – I am having problems printing out my copy of Alert messages, as the Right hand margin is now off the page and I lose all that text down that side.  I have had emails to say the same is happening for you as well.  I have raised this with VisaV, who manage the Alert system, to see if they have made any changes in the last 2 weeks. 

MAIDENHEAD CENTRAL:

maidenheadcentralnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk

Neighbourhood Page:

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

berkse-winds/yournh-tvp-pol-area-n391.htm

8/3  Friday  noon / 1 p.m.  York Road.  CAR ENTERED BY UNKNOWN MEANS – THE CAR WINDOW MAY HAVE BEEN LEFT OPEN.  Purse / wallet plus contents, camera and gold chain stolen.

RIVERSIDE & BELMONT:

maidenheadcentralnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk

8/3 – 9/3  Friday 9 p.m. / Saturday 7.15 a.m.  Ellington Park.  Car wing mirror knocked off.  It was found on the pavement.  At least one other car similarly damaged.  Only this report so far.

7/3- 8/3  Thursday 7.30 p.m. / Friday 6 a.m.  College Glen.  Small hole drilled under the van door lock – side door of van opened – Compressor, nail gun and plastic weld torch stolen.

9/3 – 10/3  Saturday / Sunday.  Harrow Lane.  A witness saw 3 lads climb over her garden fence from next door into her garden causing damage.  Neither she nor her neighbour reported the incident apart from the damage to the fence.

MAIDENHEAD WEST

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

maidenheadwestnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk

Neighbourhood Page:

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

erkse-winds/yournh-tvp-pol-area-n393.htm

10/3  Sunday  6.15 a.m.  Pub, The Moor, Cookham.  New cooking oil stolen from behind a bolted gate  A small white van pulled up and 2 Asian men got out and were witnessed stealing 4 / 5 cans of oil.

9/3  Saturday 7 p.m. / 10.30 p.m.  Station Hill, Cookham.  Car passenger wing mirror smashed, leaving it dangling.

9/3  Saturday 10 a.m.  M4  Junction8/9 West.  A driver drove under the overpass and heard a loud bang as a rock hit their roof, smashing the sun roof.  Something had been thrown from the over bridge.

PINKNEYS GREEN & FURZE PLATT:

maidenheadwestnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk

NO CRIME TO REPORT.

MAIDENHEAD SOUTH

BOYN HILL, COX GREEN & WOODLANDS PARK:

maidenheadsouthnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk

Neighbourhood Page:

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

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9/3  Saturday  4 p.m. / 7 p.m.  St Chads Road, Cox Green X 2.  1.  The owner arrived home to find a glass panel in her front door smashed.  2.  Index plates stolen from a car.

6/3 – 8/3  Wednesday / Friday  Smithfield Road, Woodlands Park.  Attempted burglary.  Someone has attempted to open the lock using the letterbox method – fortunately the door was bolted from the inside. And no entry was gained.

OLDFIELD & BRAY:

maidenheadsouthnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk

9/3  Saturday 8 p.m. / 9 p.m.  Rixman Close.  The owner heard a loud bang and found a study window had been smashed by unknown means.

MEMBERS’ COMMENTS:

Hi Jeff,

I received a phone call this morning asking if we had received the free local paper 'The Observer'.  When I said no he said he would make a note of it and knew our address.  I was writing a letter on my computer at the time and was rather engrossed.  When I had finished the letter, I thought this was rather odd, as we have not had these papers for a while.

Out of interest, I dialled 1471 and picked up the number 02071831675 then I dialled 141, so my number would not be traceable and then tried the number. The phone went into answer-phone and I rang off.

Thinking about it later, I Googled the number and discovered, it is a 'dodgy' one and several people have received the same call.  According to the website, this number beginning 020 gives the impression the call is from London.  By the way, the person who spoke to me, did not have an obvious foreign accent, so my suspicions were not alerted as they usually are in such circumstances.

Our phone number is not in the phone book and we belong to the Telephone Preference Service, so I have no idea how they got our number and knew our address. 

Any ideas on how or why they would do this?

Regards

Anne

I don’t.  Has anyone out there had similar calls ?