Royston Community Team

Rural Watch

December 2007

Covering Arbury, Ermine, Weston & Sandon Wards.

Local Police Community Support Officers, Tracy Kennedy and Chris Brabrook will be pleased to meet you, and will be ready to discuss any queries or issues you may have.

Representatives from our Crime Prevention Panel will also be on hand to offer advice on home security; and a selection of alarms and security items will be available for demonstration.

We can also mark many items of property for security purposes, such as push bikes, lawn mowers and power tools. No appointments are necessary. Just bring them along.

We are always interested in recruiting new Neighbourhood Watch members, so if you are interested, please drop in for a chat.

If you would like to speak to someone beforehand please contact PCSO Tracy Kennedy on Tel : 01438 757935

The Trading Standards Office are making people aware of the following scam:

A card is posted through your door from a company called PDS (Parcel Delivery Service) suggesting that they were unable to deliver a parcel and that you need to contact them on 0906 6611911 (a premium rate number). DO NOT call this number, as this is a mail scam originating from Belize.

If you call the number and you start to hear a recorded message you will already have been billed £15 for the phone call.

If you do receive a card with these details, then please contact Royal Mail Fraud on 02072396655 or ICSTIS (the premium rate service regulator) at www.icstis.org.uk

Last year we suffered a number of thefts of shot guns that had been left in cars. The normal situation is that members of a shooting party go into a local pub for a drink after the shoot and leave their guns in their motor vehicles, when they come out they find that their car has been broken into and the weapon stolen.

To leave a firearm unattended in a motor vehicle is no longer acceptable. If you do and it gets stolen you may BE SUBJECT OF A REVOCATION OF YOUR CERTIFICATE and loose your shotgun/firearms licence.

Ashwell	West end / Newham way	21/11/07, 1615 - 1645	34 veh / 30 mph / 24.5 mph
Ashwell	Station rd (40 limit)	21/11/07, 1650 - 1720	26 veh / 39 mph / 34 mph
Bygrave	Upper Bygrave	21/11/07, 1545 - 1610	17 veh / 35 mph / 27.7 mph
Barley	Picknage Road	29/11/07, 1225 - 1250	25 veh / 32 mph / 24.4 mph
Barkway	Royston Road	12/11/07, 1520 - 1545	32 veh / 30 mph / 24.7 mph
Therfield	The Causeway	29/11/07, 1300 - 1325	16 veh / 32 mph / 26.9 mph
Newham	Ashwell road	21/11/07, 1525 - 1610	20 veh / 39 mph / 27.3 mph
Weston	Damask Green Road	29/11/07, 1420 - 1450	18 veh / 27 mph / 24.8 mph
Rushden	Moon and Stars	29/11/07, 1510 - 1335	26 veh / 30 mph / 26.7 mph
Hinxworth	High Street	30/11/07, 1140 - 1205	21 veh / 28 mph / 24.4 mph

G4E; - Ashwell, Hinxworth, Bygrave, Newnham & Caldecote

During the early hours of Sunday 11^th November, two 20-year-old males were arrested after Police were called to deal with an incident in Mill Street, Ashwell and the males concerned continued to use abusive language despite being warned about their behaviour. (Crime no.’s G4/07/1254 & G4/07/1255).

Three 15-year-old males have been dealt with in connection with criminal damages and thefts from several cars in Ashwell, this occurred between the evenings of 1^st November and 16^th November 2007. Crime no.’s G4/07/1265, G4/07/1269, G4/07/1273, G4/07/1274, G4/07/1283, G4/07/1285, G4/07/1286, & G4/07/1284 refer.

G4D; - Barkway, Barley, Reed, Nuthampstead, Newsells, Kelshall & Therfield

A single axle wooden trailer was stolen from a farmyard in Ash Mill, Barkway, overnight of Saturday 3^rd November. (Crime no. G4/07/1237).

Sometime between Saturday 3^rd and Monday 5^th November an unsuccessful attempt was made to break into a Ford Transit van parked in Meadow Way, Therfield.

(Crime no. G4/07/1233).

Thieves smashed the rear windscreen of an Audi RS4 Estate whilst it was parked in the Causeway, Therfield overnight of Thursday 8^th November. A toolbox and coat were amongst some of the items stolen from the vehicle. (Crime no. G4/07/1245).

G3C; - Sandon, Wallington, Rushden, Clothal & Weston

A 19 year old male was arrested for driving his car along the Baldock Bypass whilst over the legal alcohol limit during the early hours of Sunday 25^th November.

(Crime no. G3/07/983).

Patrolling Police Officers stopped a car in Wallington at approximately midnight on Tuesday 27^th November. On searching the car a crow bar was found and the driver and three passengers were subsequently arrested for possession of an offensive weapon. A 19-year-old male has since been charged with the offence and the other three people released without charge. (Crime no. G3/07/989).

Criminal Damage and Anti Social Behaviour continue to raise some concern in the town. We will endeavour to work tirelessly with the community addressing these issues and to bring those causing a disturbance in the neighbourhood to justice.

My colleagues and I have worked hard over recent months to reduce this problem and this year during the Halloween period we reduced crime by two thirds and Anti Social Behaviour by a quarter. This is due to the hard work of my Officers and their obvious presence on the streets.

We will continue to conduct Anti-Social Behaviour patrols in Royston Town and work with the community. PCSO Alanna ROBINSON recently completed a project with the local schools and the children have designed posters that will be distributed in the town to help get the message across about the upset that this anti-social behaviour causes.

With Christmas fast approaching it is useful to remind everyone whilst we are out shopping that we ensure our vehicles are locked and secure, with all valuables and shopping out of sight. Also we should ensure that our homes are kept secure. Remember to leave a light on if you are leaving your house in the hours of darkness and keep presents and valuables out of sight.

Royston Police Station is open every day for enquires at the Front Counter and Police Officers work from the Station twenty four hours a day patrolling Royston Town and Royston And Baldock Rural.

Royston remains a low crime area and by working together we can ensure that it remains that way.

If any of you want to contact me, please do so on 01438 757926. Or via e-mail at: peter.frost@herts.pnn.police.uk

Total for 2003 – 2004 = 80

Total for 2004 – 2005 = 26

Total for 2005 – 2006 = 6

Total for 2006 – 2007 = 17

Reported Hare coursing Incidents in our area.

	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar	April
03-04	3	13	28	3	8	13	9	3
04-05	4	13	4	0	4	0	1	0
05-06	0	3	0	0	1	1	1	0
06-07	0	4	4	6	1	0	2	0
07-08	3	10	4

Dates Hare Coursing and Nuisance Patrols Carried Out.
04/08	05/08	12/08	16/09	23/09	30/09	27/10	28/10	13/11	15/11

Road Traffic Collisions For A507 Baldock to Cumberlow Green

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Last time we attended

RUSHDEN	20/02/07	SANDON	08/02/06
THERFIELD	25/04/07	REED	07/03/07
BARKWAY	16/05/07	BARLEY	08/01/07
KELSHALL	16/04/07	NUTHAMP	01/05/07
ASHWELL	05/09/07	BYGRAVE	08/01/07
CALDECOTE	05/01/07	WESTON	08/03/07
RADWELL	24/04/07	WALLIGTON	20/02/07
HINXWORT	01/03/07	CLOTHALL	09/05/07

Area	Last Meeting	Next Meeting	Location and Time
G4E	15^th August 2007
G4D	18th July 2007
G3C	11^th October 2007

Our first Locality Panel Meeting took place at kelshall Village Hall on the 19th April, we had a very interesting meeting and my first tasks were set.

Locality

Members

Martin Dingemans, Eric Gurney, Howard Marshall, Simon Holtom, Robert Law, Teddy Faure-Walker, Michael Meredith-Hardy, Steve Jarvis, Andrew Young, Tony Hunter, Gill Renison, Peter Shuttlewood, Keith Bone.

Meeting

22/11/07

Tasks set

1. Reducing Incidents of Nusience Motor cycling and Nusience 4 X 4 use, by increasing weekend patrols.

2. Continuing with speed monitoring checks

Please click on the below link to meet some of the people we wish to becomes friends with.

http://www.herts.police.uk/CCTV/gallery.htm

Rural Watch

Jan

RUSHDEN

SANDON

THERFIELD

ASHWELL

BYGRAVE

CALDECOTE

Please click on the below link to meet some of the people we wish to becomes friends with.