Crime: 10 April 2013

Today we are re-launching CountryWatch.  If you have not received my Test Launch Message today and would like to receive details of rural crime, please email me at the address below and I will add you to the database.  I would add, you will get details of all the rural crimes that occur, within these messages, anyway !

Mrs Chalmers has sent me a new bunch of handouts re various types of crime and the correct prevention advice.  She has also sent me a new leaflet which has been produced by ACPO re Home security tips and advice.  I have attached these (you will find them at the bottom of this message) – please open them up and save them somewhere in your computer for when you may need them.

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

NO CRIME TO REPORT

RIVERSIDE & BELMONT:

maidenheadcentralnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk

2/4 – 8/4  Hambleden Walk, Furze Platt.  First floor house window smashed.

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-are

a-berkse-winds/yournh-tvp-pol-area-n393.htm

9/4  Tuesday 1 a.m.  Pub, Bisham Road, Bisham.  Two offenders entered the car park and looked into all the cars parked up.  Car rear windscreen smashed – A LAPTOP BAG containing documents was stolen.  The dog handlers were called who tracked a scent to a nearby car park where it was lost.  The bag and contents have probably been discarded nearby.

9/4  Tuesday 8 p.m.  Winter Hill Road, Cookham.  Attempted burglary.  The owner returned to find their rear kitchen window forced open.  As they entered they saw someone running out of the back of the house into a field at the rear.  He is described as white, mid to late teens, 5’6’’ average build, wearing a top with horizontal stripes.  No entry had been gained.

8/4  Monday  7 p.m. / 7.50 p.m.  Pub, Bath Road.  Car rear windscreen smashed – LAPTOP stolen from the boot.

PINKNEYS GREEN & FURZE PLATT:

maidenheadwestnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk

9/4  Midnight / 1 p.m.  Alwyn Road.  Attempted Burglary.  The property was accessed via side garden gate.  Metal frame to rear kitchen door forced.  This has set off the burglar alarm and the thief has immediately made off.  As we keep recommending, an alarm is your fist line of defence against burglary !

8/4 – 9/4  Monday 10.30 p.m. / Tuesday 8.30 a.m.  Highfield Road.  Car passenger window smashed – nothing stolen.

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-w

inds/yournh-tvp-pol-area-n392.htm

9/4  Tuesday 7 a.m. / 7.35 a.m.  St Chad’s Road, Cox Green.  Car badly and deeply keyed on the bonnet.

OLDFIELD & BRAY:

maidenheadsouthnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk

NO CRIME TO REPORT

MEMBERS COMMENTS:

Operation of Key Fobs !

Hi Jeff

Having read many of your updates about cars left insecure/entered by unknown means and a recent trip away started me thinking.

I mainly drive a van for my business and my previous van had alarm problems from day one, locking, unlocking by itself and going off at random. So much so that on a trip to North Wales I parked the van in the hotel car park in line of sight to my room some 300m away, just so I could see if it was my alarm going off. Sure enough it went off a few times and I was surprised to be able to unlock and relock it from the window, but that was an advantage which I appreciated and it saved me some legwork being on the third floor.

Thankfully that van has gone without the manufacturers ever finding the cause of the alarm problems. I've now taken delivery of a different van which now allows me to sleep at night. However the other day I had to carry tools with both hands so locked the van and put the keys into a different pocket, bent down to pick up the tools and the doors unlocked! This got me thinking that if something similar happened to other people in car parks, parking, locking and walking to another floor or out of the car park and also bent down to pick something up, or rummaging in their handbag and accidentally activating the key fob would they then know if their car had unlocked? I'm presuming my experience was coins in the pocket being squeezed against the key fob and this could happen to anyone. 

I know the range of these key fobs is only supposed to be about 25m but that's enough to be out of earshot or even in another road. My new van with a new battery in the key fob can reliably work over 50m. What if the driver locks the car on the drive/road, comes indoors and puts the keys down heavily on a table? What if their fob also operates up to 300m?

Even though this is a long shot as I know jammers exist and some people don't lock their doors, but I thought it would be worth mentioning as it might explain one or two of the 'unknown means'.