Crime: 16 October 2013  

I am on a training day tomorrow, so may not have the opportunity to send a message, I will update the last 24 hours now.
 
We held a NHW Open public meeting last night in Ascot, where we still draw an audience of 40 members.  We used to do this in Windsor, but audiences dropped to one or two – use it or lose it – and we stopped.  I will try another in the new year, when I can book a venue:
 
What a brilliant evening and presentation last night, at the Open Meeting !  The presentation by Insp. GavinTyrell from our Economic Crime Unit was exceptional.  The meeting was really well attended.  We all sat there speechless, as he worked through a presentation setting out exactly what his team does.  I took some notes, but they do not do the presentation justice.  I have asked Gavin for the PowerPoint presentation and will attach it to a message, as soon as it arrives.
 
His Team do not work on a ‘value of the Fraud basis’ – anything over a million pounds.  They examine each, for it’s ‘Threat, Harm, Risk’.  A multi million pound fraud, will be dealt with in the same way, as an elderly victim conned out of their small amount of life savings – it is the harm to the victim.

There were 210 seizures of ‘cash’ last year amounting to £1.1 million – that is £3,000 per day, 151 successful confiscations of property.  In the last 5 years they have recovered £22 million pounds from the proceeds of crime !  That is £12,000 per day - the highest being £4.2 million, from the fraudulent sale, of a piece of land in Sunningdale !!!  The smallest was £1.  They will pursue someone even for the £1, as once they have a court order, they can recover from that offender, any assets they ‘amass’ over the next 6 years.. An estimate of the present value of Fraud is £73.......BILLION
 
His Team – The Economic Crime Unit, deals with:

1. Serious and complex Fraud
2. Money Laundering
3. Financial Abuse and Safeguarding
4. Electoral malpractice
5. Extradition & European arrest warrants
6. Asset Recovery & Restraint
7. Cyber Crime
8. Bribery & Corruption in Public Life
9. Politically Exposed Persons
10. Action Fraud

As you can see – with all that to discuss – it was a brilliant evening.  Gavin promoted the Little Book of Scams, which I have attached again.  Please save this to your hard drive for future reference.
 
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/

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NO CRIME TO REPORT.
 
RIVERSIDE & BELMONT:
maidenheadcentralnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
16/10 – 17/10  Wednesday 5.30 p.m. / Thursday 10 a.m.  Crauford Rise.  An offender has jumped over a fence at the property causing damage in the garden.
16/10  Wednesday 1 a.m. / 8.20 a.m.  Derwent Drive.  Burglary.  Entry via forced front porch and front door – CLOSED BUT NOT LOCKED – Handbag and contents from the bottom of the stairs stolen along with a set of car keys from the kitchen worktop and a white Audi A4 index EJ 1** GHA stolen.  The car is still outstanding.
16/10  Wednesday  1 p.m. / 1.15 p.m.  Blackamoor Lane.  Building site.  Nail gun X 2 stolen.
16/10  Evenlode.  A witness saw an offender stealing an hydrolic breaker from outside Block 7.
 
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

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16/10  Wednesday 9.30 a.m. / 11.45 a.m.  Bisham Road, Bisham.  Burglary.  Entry via rear forced ground floor window.  House searched – very untidy – possible attempt to steal gold jewellery.  Nothing stolen.
 
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

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16/10  Wednesday 11.55 p.m.  garage, Grenfell Road.  The alarm monitoring company phoned the police to say there was a break-in in progress at the garage.  When the police arrived the key-holder was just opening up, but there were sounds from inside.  There was dust everywhere in the air, as an angle grinder had been used to remove and steal a safe from a wall.  Access to the building had been through a forced upstairs window using a ladder which was still in situ.  They had made off via a first floor rear fire exit.  It is believed they arrived in a car and parked it in Brockton Court. Accessing the garage via a hole in the fence.  CCTV shows 2 offenders wearing hoodies to hide their faces and the whole theft took approximately one minute !  Did you see anything suspicious ?
 
OLDFIELD & BRAY:
maidenheadsouthnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
NO CRIME TO REPORT.