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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/

yournh-tvp-pol-area-n391.htm

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/

yournh-tvp-pol-area-n393.htm

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/

yournh-tvp-pol-area-n392.htm

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 
Thames Valley Police,

124 Bath Road, Taplow, SL6 0NX 
Tel: 101

Email  michael.clare@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk

Visit the 'Secured By Design' web site for CPDA contact details, design guides, licence holders & application forms: www.securedbydesign.com

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:

  • Sock drawer (13%)
  • Top of the wardrobe (9%)
  • Under the bed (9%)
  • Under the sink (6%)
  • Under the bedside table (no figure supplied)

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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