Royston Community Team

Rural Watch  

August 2011

 

 

PC 431 Paul Marina PCSO Amy Rainbird PCSO 6522 Brabrook

 

 

Covering Arbury, Ermine, Weston & Sandon Wards

       

 

           

 

 

New non-emergency number 101 launches at Herts Police

 

 

New non-emergency number 101 has launched at Herts Police aimed at making calls to the service cheaper, easier and more efficient.

 

101 will gradually replace the current non-emergency number, 0845 33 00 222. However, the changeover will not happen immediately and ‘0845’ number is expected to be in place for approximately a year, running in tandem with 101 to ensure a smooth transition.

 

This is part of a countrywide Association of Chief Police Officers and Home Office-led initiative where all forces are due to adopt the number by December, in phases. Herts Police is in the first phase of forces to adopt 101.

 

101 will cost a 15p for the duration of the call, whether made from a landline or mobile phone. However, for those whose current service plans give them free calls to 0845 numbers, it will still be possible to contact the Constabulary non-emergency service on landline number 01707 354000, which is also a free number on some phone packages.

 

If you are deaf, hard of hearing or speech impaired, the textphone service 18001 101 is still available.

 

  

 

A Message From Trading Standards

 

Be careful of people who come to your home to try and sell you things, especially if they make the first contact.  No-one has been given permission to call in Hertfordshire's 'No Cold Calling Zones' we would suggest that you avoid contact with any company making such claims. 

If you do arrange for someone to call and decide you are not interested in their product or service they must leave if and when they are specifically asked to do so, failure to comply with such an offence could be a criminal offence and should be reported to Trading Standards via the Consumer Direct number below.

 

If you do agree to purchase an item value over ฃ35 from someone during a visit to your home you have the right to cancel the contract for seven days, and must receive a written notice to this effect. 

Failure to provide the notice or to agree the cancellation should be notified to Trading Standards via Consumer Direct on 08454 040506 immediately'.

 

 

Speed Checks
 

 


 

Hinxworth

High Street

15/07/11 1640 - 1710

 22 veh / 33 mph / 23.4 mph

Newnham

Ashwell road

25/07/11 1640 - 1720

 32 veh / 36 mph / 26.75 mph

Bygrave

Upper Bygrave

26/07/11 1200 - 1230

 18 veh / 38 mph / 21.6 mph

Ashwell

Station Road (40 limit)

15/07/11 1740 - 1810

 27 veh / 47 mph / 38.1 mph

Ashwell

Newnham Way

26/07/11 0100 - 0130

 32 veh / 41 mph / 27.2 mph

Weston

Hatch Lane

18/07/11 1720 - 1750

 23 veh / 33 mph / 27.62 mph

                                                                                                    

Reported Crime
 

 

 

 


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

 

Crime No.

Offence

Location

 Date

G4/11/534    

Public order

Great North Road

01/07/11

Offender(s) were being verbally abusive in public while intoxicated

 

Crime No.

Offence

Location

Time & Date

G4/11/535    

Assault on a police constable

Great North Road

01/07/11

Offender(s) assaulted a police constable during his/her arrest by kicking said officer.

 

Crime No.

Offence

Location

Time & Date

G4/11/541    

Burglary (dwelling)

Ashwell

02/07/11

Offender(s) have broken in by smashing a ground floor back window and stolen numerous items.

 

Crime No.

Offence

Location

Time & Date

G4/11/555    

Drink driving

Great North Road

03/07/11

Offender(s) was involved in a single vehicle RTC, offender(s) abandoned damaged vehicle and was found by police nearby intoxicated.

 

Crime No.

Offence

Location

Time & Date

G4/11/557    

Drink driving

Bygrave Road

08/07/11

Offender(s) was involved in a single vehicle RTC, the vehicle was found abandoned by police and the offender(s) was located shortly after intoxicated.

 

Crime no.

Offence

Location

Time & date

G4/11/600    

Driving whilst unfit

Hinxworth 

21/07/11

Offender(s) was found asleep in his/her vehicle with the ignition running, the offender was intoxicated.

 

Crime No.

Offence

Location

Time & Date

G4/11/607    

Criminal damage

Great North Road

22/07/11

Offender(s) damaged a vehicle by hitting it repeatedly with a brick

 

Crime No.

Offence

Location

Time & Date

G4/11/608    

Fraud

Ashwell

22/07/11

Offender(s) have used someone else’s details to set up an orange mobile account

 

 

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

 

Crime No.

Offence

Location

Time & Date

G4/11/546    

Theft

Therfield

04/07/11

Offender(s) have stolen machinery from farmers field

 

Crime No.

Offence

Location

Time & Date

G4/11/567    

Public order

Therfield

09/07/11

Offender has directed verbal abuse at a female causing distress.

 

Crime No.

Offence

Location

Time & Date

G4/11/579    

Assault occasioning actual bodily harm (against a constable)

Therfield

13/07/11

Offender assaulted a constable during arrest, the officer sustain injuries amounting to ABH

 

Crime No.

Offence

Location

Time & Date

G4/11/580    

Assault occasioning actual bodily harm (against a constable)

Therfield

13/07/11

Offender assaulted a constable during arrest, the officer sustain injuries amounting to ABH

 

Crime No.

Offence

Location

Time & Date

G4/11/568    

Theft

Barkway

11/07/11

Offender(s) has taken a sat nav out of a vehicle while the vehicle was being cleaned by the owner

 

Crime No.

Offence

Location

Time & Date

G4/11/570    

Attempted Burglary

Therfield

12/07/11

Offender(s) have gained entry to an out building and caused damage in the process, some items within the building were moved around before the offender(s) then made off.

 

Crime No.

Offence

Location

Time & Date

G4/11/603    

Theft

Reed

21/07/11

Offender(s) have stolen scrap metal from a skip

 

Crime No.

Offence

Location

Time & Date

G4/11/612    

Attempted burglary

Nuthampstead

25/07/11

Offender(s) have broken into the building by breaking the lock, high value high voltage batteries have been tampered with before the alarm went off and offender(s) fled.

 

Crime No.

Offence

Location

Time & Date

G4/11/613    

Attempted theft

Nuthampstead

26/07/11

Offender(s) have broken into a container, conducted an untidy search but not removed anything.

 

 

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

 

Crime No.

Offence

Location

Time & Date

G3/11/364    

Criminal damage

Weston

11/07/11

Offender(s) have damaged a vehicle possibly by jumping on it.

 

 

Crime No.

Offence

Location

Time & Date

G3/11/378    

Criminal damage

Weston

21/07/11

During a verbal altercation the partner of the victim has smashed her phone with his fist.

 

 

Illegal Hare coursing
 

 

 


Reported Hare coursing Incidents in our area.

 

 

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mar

April

Total

03-04

3

13

28

3

8

13

9

3

80

04-05

4

13

4

0

4

0

1

0

26

05-06

0

3

0

0

1

1

1

0

6

06-07

0

4

4

6

1

0

2

0

17

07-08

3

10

4

6

9

2

4

3

43

08-09

7

5

2

4

4

4

2

1

29

09-10

3

3

10

3

1

1

2

1

24

10-11

0

2

2

4

1

1

0

0

10


 

Number of Sunday Hare Coursing and Nuisance Vehicle Patrols Carried Out to Reduce coursing Nusience Motor cycling and Nusience 4 X 4 use, patrols per months, early start preferred, 7am or 8am.

 

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

July

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

07

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

3

3

0

3

08

4

4

4

4

4

2

2

2

2

3

1

4

09

1

1

3

2

1

3

2

1

1

2

3

2

10

1

1

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

11

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

 

 

 

 

 

Parish Councils
 

 

 Last time we attended

RUSHDEN

28/09/10

SANDON

01/12/10

THERFIELD

06/09/10

REED

06/07/11

BARKWAY

11/04/11

BARLEY

04/10/10

KELSHALL

11/04/11

NUTHAMP

15/06/11

ASHWELL

02/06/10

BYGRAVE

07/02/11

CALDECOTE

28/03/11

WESTON

12/08/10

RADWELL

10/05/11

WALLINGTON

28/09/10

HINXWORT

09/09/10

CLOTHALL

13/12/10

Neighbour Hood Watch Meetings

 

 

Area

Last Meeting

Next Meeting

Location and Time 8pm

G4E

Monday 26th July 2010

Thursday 11th August  2011

Parish Rooms, Ashwell

G4D

Tuesday 21st June 2011

 

Fordham Hall, Therfield

G3C

Weds 25th August 2010

Thursday 11th August 2011

Village Hall, Rushden

 

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

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

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

 

 

 

Safer Neighbourhoods
 

 

 


Locality

Members

Martin Dingemans, Howard Marshall, Simon Holtom, Robert Law, Teddy Faure-Walker, Steve Jarvis, Andrew Young, Tony Hunter, Keith Bone

Meeting

on

05/04/11

 

Tasks set

1.      Tackling incidents of hare coursing and nuisance vehicle use within the rural community on Saturday & Sundays between the hours 06.00 – 19.00 (G4D, G4E, G3C).

2.      To improve/increase intelligence gathering in relation to suspicious vehicles/persons and attend incidents when reported. (G4D, G4E, G3C)

3.      To tackle speeding - locations West end / Newnham Way Ashwell, Station Rd, Ashwell. Upper Bygrave Rd, Bygrave, London Road, Barley, Cambridge Rd Barkway,  The Causeway, Therfield, Ashwell Road, Newham, Damask Green Road, Weston, Outside the Moon and Stars public house, Rushden and High Street, Hinxworth. To carry on with trials up until a covert monitoring device can be installed. Then speed watch to carry on with speed detection for a year and then another covert check to take place.

 

 

Surgeries

 

 

 

Sat 18th June – Sandon Growers Market - 0930-1130

Wed 1st June - Barley

Fri 3rd June - Ashwell

 

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Sat 16th July – Barkway 1000-1100 – Joint with Barkway Parish Council

Fri 8th July - Ashwell

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Wed 3rd August - Barley

Fri 19th August - Ashwell

Wed 14th Sept - Weston

Sat 17th Sept – Barkway 1000-1100 – Joint with Barkway Parish Council

Fri 16th Sept - Ashwell

 

 

 

 

Meet The Criminals 


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

 

http://www.herts.police.uk/hertfordshire_constabulary/help_us_fight_crime/cctv_images.aspx

 

Other links

http://www.herts.police.uk/profiles/hw.php  Herts HorseWhatch

http://www.hertscrimeprevention.com/NHCPP/Welcome.html

http://www.bedfordhomewatch.co.uk           www.doglost.co.uk

http://www.hertscrimestoppers.org.uk/              http://trailerwatch.com/

http://www.nfu.org.uk/                                      www.saddleguard.co.uk

http://www.britishhorse.co.uk/                           http://www.stolenhorseregister.com/

http://www.horsetackexchange.co.uk

 

 

Phone numbers 0845 33 00 222 (if you have suffered a crime or need Police within a couple of hours) 999 (for immediate response if you have just suffered a crime and for Coursing) PC 431 Paul Marina. North Herts Rural.

 

 

paul.marina@herts.pnn.police.uk                 01438 757924

chris.brabrook@herts.pnn.police.uk                     01438 757935

amy.rainbird@herts.pnn.police.uk                     01438 757935