Royston Community Team

Rural Watch

December 2010

PC 431 Paul Marina PCSO Amy Rainbird PCSO 6522 Brabrook

Covering Arbury, Ermine, Weston & Sandon Wards.

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 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 a lot of money for the phone call.

If you do receive a card with these details, then please contact Royal Mail Fraud on 020 7239 6655 020 7239 6655.

I'm afraid there have been having more reports of the "too good to be true" alarm sales company which I've told you about in the past.

These people have so far tried claiming to be either recommended by Neighbourhood Watch or working in conjunction with Neighbourhood Watch and in some cases have also made out to be working with the Police doing a "British Crime Survey" and giving away free alarm equipment to a select few. They now choose their words extremely carefully to give the impression that there is some connection between Neighbourhood Watch and or Police without actually stating this. Unfortunately Trading Standards are unable to stop them from selling in this way, but they do tend to be selling extremely expensive packages based on a monthly rolling payment.

I continue to advise anyone to steer clear of anyone who telephones selling alarm systems (or anything else for that matter) and if you have neighbours, who are interested in buying an alarm system, please recommend them to speak to us first to ascertain what it is they might actually need before approaching any alarm companies.

These people do tend to target the elderly - presumably they have purchased a commercial database from somewhere which give them this information (another good reason not to fill out forms) so please do let any retired residents in your area know to avoid these people if possible.

Date & Times	Location	Cautions	Fixed fines	Prosecutions
	Barley Camb Rd	Unable to complete due to weather conditions
	Therfield Rooks Nest
	Mill End Rusden
	Barkway Camb Rd

Veh Top Av

Hinxworth	High Street	16/11/10 1700 - 1730	20 veh / 33 mph / 27 mph
Newham	Ashwell road	20/11/10 0845 - 0915	27 veh / 37 mph / 28.9 mph
Weston	Damask Green Road	26/11/10 1830 - 1900	20 veh / 41 mph / 23.2 mph
Bygrave	Lower Bygrave	26/11/10 1725 - 1755	17 veh / 39 mph / 29 mph
Ashwell	Station Road (40 limit)	26/11/10 1630 - 1700	23 veh / 45 mph / 37.9 mph
Ashwell,	Newnham Way	22/11/10 0900 - 0930	30 veh / 43 mph / 27.8 mph

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

None Reported

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

Crime no.	Offence	Location	Time & date
G4/10/763	Theft	Baldock Road	12-13/11/10
Offender(s) have gained entry into a secure building and stolen 10 litres of copper earthing cable.

Crime No.	Offence	Location	Time & Date
G4/10/877	Theft	Barkway	13/11/10
Offender(s) have stolen padlock and chain.

Crime No.	Offence	Location	Time & Date
G4/10/889	Burglary	Barkway	19-20/11/10
Offender(s) have stolen alloy wheels from a vehicle.

Crime No.	Offence	Location	Time & Date
G4/10/895	Burglary	Barkway	21-22/11/10
Offender(s) have stolen a large amount of alloy wheels.

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

Crime No.	Offence	Location	Time & Date
G3/10/604	Burglary	Weston	10-11/11/10
Offender(s) have cut through padlocks and removed a large amount of power tools and machinery.

Crime No.	Offence	Location	Time & Date
G3/10/605	Burglary	Weston	11/11/10
Offender(s) have cut through padlock to a shed and damaged the wooden door.

Crime No.	Offence	Location	Time & Date
G3/10/618	Burglary	Weston	16-17/11/10
Offender(s) have tried to gain entry by ram raiding the shutters, nothing was taken.

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

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

Last time we attended

RUSHDEN	28/09/10	SANDON	22/04/09
THERFIELD	06/09/10	REED	04/03/09
BARKWAY	23/06/10	BARLEY	04/10/10
KELSHALL	20/04/09	NUTHAMP	09/06/09
ASHWELL	02/06/10	BYGRAVE	14/01/09
CALDECOTE	05/05/08	WESTON	12/08/10
RADWELL	10/05/10	WALLINGTON	28/09/10
HINXWORT	09/09/10	CLOTHALL	02/07/08

Area	Last Meeting	Next Meeting	Location and Time
G4E	Monday 26th July
G4D	Weds 1st Sept
G3C	Weds 25th August at

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

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

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

Locality

Members

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

Meeting

20/01/10

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. 10 Speed checks a Month. From June 09 to Sep 09 to have a temporary trial on monthly enforceable checks in Barley, Therfield & Rusden.

Surgeries all times 10.30 – 12.00
Barkway – Reading Room. Barley – Church. Weston – Post Office. Ashwell URC Hall. Sandon Cecil Sales


Wed 8th Dec - Sandon	Thurs 9th Dec - Barkway	Fri 3rd Dec - Ashwell
Wed 12th Jan - Weston	Thurs 13th Jan - Barley	Fri 14th Jan - Ashwell
Wed 16th Feb - Sandon	Thurs 17th Feb - Barkway	Fri 4th Feb - Ashwell
Wed 9th March - Weston	Wed 16th March - Barley	Fri 4th Feb - Ashwell

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.