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Crime:
24 May 2013
As
you can see, Crime is extremely low still.
Can everyone continue to report suspicious incidents asap –
Please ! Never think the
information is not relevant or you may be bothering us because no crime
has actually occurred. It may
well have done or is about to be, but you are simply not aware ! We
are having spare wheels stolen from underneath cars – 2 in Windsor and
one in Ascot. If you have a
car with a spare underneath, please keep an eye on it and only park up in
highly visible places where it would be difficult for someone to steal it
without being observed ??? 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/ 22/5
Wednesday 3.45 p.m. / 4.45 p.m.
Library, St Ives Road.
Locked up bike stolen from a bike rack.
A witness saw a lad jerk the bike from the bike rack shearing the
lock. As they rode off a bike
box of tools fell from the back. The
offender is described as: white, 18 – 20 years old, short light blond
hair, wearing long baggy grey trousers and a tracksuit top. RIVERSIDE
& BELMONT: maidenheadcentralnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk NO
CRIME TO REPORT. 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-berkse-winds/ NO
CRIME TO REPORT. 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-winds/ 24/5
Friday 4 a.m. / 7 a.m. Altwood
Bailey. Burglary – lock
forced on integral garage. House
searched and bike stolen from the garage. 21/5
– 23/5 Tuesday 4 p.m. /
Thursday 9 a.m. Lillibrooke
Crescent, Cox Green. Garage
break at the rear of the property. It
may have been LEFT INSECURE.
Laptop and 4 bottles of washing up liquid. 23/5
– 24/5 Thursday 5 p.m. /
Friday 8.30 a.m. Cox
Green Lane, Cox Green. Van
entered and searched – tools stolen OLDFIELD
& BRAY: maidenheadsouthnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk NO
CRIME TO REPORT. MEMBERS
COMMENTS: Hi
Jeff, We
recently had a clothing catalogue posted through our door.
This is the type of catalogue, where someone then calls around a
few days later hoping for an order, or the return of the catalogue. We
both work, so found a note yesterday, asking us to contact them to return
the catalogue, or to ‘leave
it on the door step’. Leaving
the catalogue on the doorstep would (I presume) indicate there is no one
at home during the day, so not something we’re prepared to do. I
wonder if some people might do so, and unwittingly advertise that they are
not at home? Regards,
Paul Most
of you will already know the advice I will give - Just bin them. Never,
never, leave anything on the doorstep, for collection.
It just advertises – not only to the catalogue collector –
whoever they may be, as well as anyone else including ‘Opportunist
Thieves’, that you are not at home.
We do have cases of clothing charities who post black bags through
your door with a similar request – sometimes they even ask you to pin a
note to your front door if you are out, that the bag is in the porch /
down the side of the house – whatever !
WE ALL KNOW NOT TO DO THIS – DON’T WE !!! Something
from Mick Clare one of our CPDAs (Crime Prevention Design Advisors !) Hi
Jeff, The
following article may be of use to your members. It
gives advice re safes, etc and is at: http://www.crp-news.com/htm/n20130508.824894.htm
Crime
Prevention Design Advisor Neighbourhood
Policing and Partnerships Thames
Valley Police 124
Bath Road, Taplow, SL6 0NX Email michael.clare@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk What's your
'safe' place?
Earlier
this year I ran a story on my news pages entitled ‘Your ‘safe place’
could be a safe bet for thieves’. The data for this report was supplied
by Confused.com and at the end of the article I added some of my own data
gleaned from the online Home Security Survey application. Confused.com’s
research firmly established the fact that most householders are hiding
their valuables (jewellery, cash, important papers, passports etc) around
the home rather than using a safe. Helpfully
they even produced a list of the top five favoured hiding places:
Having
investigated many burglaries during my police career I can add several
more, such as the fridge (especially in the salad drawers!?), behind books
on the book shelves, in the shed, in the hostess trolley and at the back
of the drinks cabinet. There’s
one thing all these hiding places have in common and that is that the
burglar knows about them and will invariably look in these places as a
matter of routine. So
how many households are using these hideaways? I turn to my own collected
data to answer that question and from the 1400 surveys completed so far it
seems that 73% of householders have some sort of 'hiding practice' or
indeed not hiding things at all. Only 27% are using a safe of some kind. Of
those who use a safe just 33% describe the safe as being ‘acceptable to
their insurers’, which is only 9% of all households who have carried out
our Home Security Survey. Because many of the people who have carried out
our survey are security aware (members of Neighbourhood Watch for example)
I suspect this figure is artificially high and would suggest that the
national figure is probably not greater than 5%. Whichever figure you
accept they are both quite low, which is a shame, because an insurance
rated safe can offer a decent level of security that would defeat most
burglars and provide you with some piece of mind, especially since we’re
often talking about the protection of things that have a great deal of
sentimental value, even if they are not intrinsically valuable. So
what safe should you get? This
all depends on what you want to keep in it, the volume of stuff you want
to put in it and its overall value. There are three standards that relate
to safes which are used to test their performance and provide us with
resistance grades, which are in turn used by insurers to determine how
much cash and jewellery they are willing to cover for a particular safe. As
a rule of thumb, if a safe has a cash rating of £2,000 it can be used to
store £20,000 worth of jewellery, ten times the cash rating. So if the
cash rating is £4,000 then it’ll be good for £40,000 worth of
jewellery and so on. Typical domestic safes up to a cash rating of £4,000,
which would suit most people reading this article, will be certificated to
BS EN 14450: 2005. If you need a higher cash rating then you will be
looking to purchase a safe that has been certificated to BS EN 1143-1:
2005+A1: 2009 or LPS 1183: Issue 4.2. A
more detailed account of the various cash ratings and standards can be
found at
this link on the Crime Prevention Website, but it is really
important to speak with your insurers first, before you make
any purchase, since they are the people who will be covering the risk. The
safe shown in the image is a Chubbsafes Water Safe and is cash rated to £2,000.
It retails for about £240, perhaps not as much as you might have thought.
However, the installation of a safe is critical to its performance and so
insurers invariably require a professional installation before they will
offer cover and this will inevitably add to the overall cost. But
there’s some good news! To celebrate my website’s first birthday, and
also to highlight the importance of using a safe, my friends at TotalSafes.co.uk
have very generously donated a £500 voucher towards the purchase of one.
All you have to do to enter our free draw to win it (Terms and Conditions
apply) is complete our on-line Home Security Survey, subscribe to our
newsletter, like our Facebook page or re-tweet one of our Tweets. If you
do all four then you’ll get four entries! See
our Prize Draw entry page here. Remember,
there are very few police reports about cash rated safes getting broken
into and this is mainly because the burglars want to be in and out of your
place just as soon as they can. The most commonly stolen property during a
burglary is cash, jewellery, credit cards and sometimes the spare car keys
(and then the car), the very sort of property that can be kept in a safe
and so you’ll greatly reduce your losses should the worst happen. You
know it makes sense! Calvin
Beckford owns and operates The
Crime Prevention Website.com, a free and open resource for everyone |
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