Crime: 21 November 2014
 

This Operation involved a huge amount of time, effort, intelligence gathering and work from several police teams, including Local CID, Neighbourhoods, Shift Response and Intelligence departments, all of whom worked closely with similar cross border teams, as these offenders transgressed prolifically all over the place, ignoring police boundaries.  They were ‘of interest’ in several Counties.
 
We can only do this with your support.  That little jigsaw puzzle piece that you supply, fits the whole thing together.  You don’t know exactly what it is you have seen, nor how it fits into the bigger picture, but a sighting of a person, in a particular location – we can often recognise exactly who they are from a minimal description – at a particular time, ties our researches together.  Keep phoning suspicious things through to us. You may not see an immediate result, this operation took several months and meticulous planning.  Before we can go to the courts for warrants, every ‘i’ must be dotted and ‘t’, crossed.
 
House searches, involving several police areas all perfectly timed, recovered an amount of stolen property.  I may well be circulating pictures as a result, of property we cannot identify as stolen from our police records.
 
Hopefully this will make us all safer for a while.  We must all still be alert to suspicious people hanging about and using the 101 phone line to let us know – nature abhors a vacuum – their place will surely be filled.
 
This case from Windsor may re-enforce this message:
 
19/11 – 20/11  Wednesday 6 p.m. / Thursday 7.30 a.m.  Harcourt Road.  Garage break.  The door may have been LEFT INSECURE – Wetcutter stolen.  There had been a suspicious incident that day.  When the aggrieved arrived home, he found a man on his driveway.  He said in a middle European accent, that he was looking for a particular address, he then quickly left.  The man was in his late 30s and was driving an old Audi.  THIS IS EXACTLY THE SORT OF SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT THAT SHOULD BE REPORTED TO THE POLICE.  We only hear about these things afterwards, when doing house to house enquiries.  What if that man was looking for potential crime targets in that road ???  Whatever he was doing, it was suspicious and should have been reported to us on the 101 number – even though he had done nothing and at that time, no crime had occurred.