Royston Community Team

Rural Watch

July 2010

PC 431 Paul Marina PCSO Amy Rainbird PCSO 6522 Brabrook

Covering Arbury, Ermine, Weston & Sandon Wards.

I have been passed the following extract from an EFDC Environmental Services bulletin regarding the disposal of waste which contains two interesting aspects worthy of note.

Firstly, if you employ any person or company to remove any waste from your farm or household, you need to ensure that they area a registered waste carriers and that you take their waste carrier number.

Secondly, and much more crucially; if waste is disposed of unlawfully on land, it is not essential to catch the person actually dumping it for proceedings to take place. If from the waste itself you can determine the source, Environmental Services can take out a prosecution against the originator even if he/she alleges they have employed a third person to dispose of the waste bit did not use a registered waste carrier. With fly tipping, I would suggest, this would normally be the case

We have been told by Norfolk that there is a growing trend there of thefts of irrigation channelling/piping from fields. Can I please advise you to consider the type of irrigation feeds you buy with this in mind, and to be wary of any activity around existing metal pipe work. Happily, we have had no such reports thus far, but it might be worth reviewing access routes onto land etc where you do have metal pipe work in place.

Many of you, like me, will have been bombarded with charity clothing collection bags recently.

Can I please highlight two problems with giving your clothing to charity in this way.

Many of these registered charities pass on a proportion of their earnings. If you don’t recognise the charity name, read the small print on the bag – it will often state that they give a contribution towards the charity they are collecting on behalf of, or offer “affordable” clothing to those in the third World. On top of this, one even has the cheek to specify that they only want only good quality items!

Lesser known “charity clothing collections” seem to have a sixth sense about when more reputable ones are collecting, and often manage to put their bags out at around the same time, so that they can collect all the bags left out, some of which will have been intended for different collectors.

Please be sure that your kind intentions are being carried out. If you donate your clothing to charity, you presumably want someone less fortunate to benefit (and not someone who makes a business out of massaging the truth).

We have a range of highly reputable Charity shops in our town centres that have a proven track record for doing excellent work in both the third world and locally, employing local people (and volunteers) and passing on ALL their profits to their respective causes.

Hinxworth	High Street	22/06/10 0845 - 0915	27 veh / 40 mph / 26.6 mph
Barkway	London Road	25/06/10 0945 - 1015	30 veh / 38 mph / 28.6 mph
Ashwell,	Newnham Way	23/06/10 0855 - 0925	50 veh / 32 mph / 26.2 mph
Ashwell	Station Road 40mph	23/06/10 0910 - 0940	30 veh / 53 mph / 36.9 mph
Newham	Ashwell road	24/06/10 0900 – 0930	50 veh / 39 mph / 26.8 mph
Weston	Damask Green Road	24/06/10 1130 - 1200	20 veh / 27 mph / 23 mph
Bygrave	Upper Bygrave	14/06/10 1700 - 1730	30 veh / 36 mph / 24.6 mph

Date & Times	Location	Police Actions
09.30 – 10.15 01/06/10	Cambridge Rd, Barley	5 Cautions (all under 36MPH)
16.40 – 17.30 02/06/10	Police Row, Therfield	1 Caution (under 36MPH)
17.40 – 18.15 02/06/10	Mill End, Rushden	1 Fixed Fine (42 MPH)
08.15 – 08.45 07/06/10	Station road Ashwell 40mph	3 Cautions (all under 47MPH)
08.55 - 09.25 07/06/10	Bygrave	1 Cautions (under 36MPH)

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

Crime No.	Offence	Location	Date
G4/10/406	Burglary	Ashwell	01/06/10
Offender(s) gained entry via the rear of the property, and removed valuable items.

Crime no.	Offence	Location	Time & date
G4/10/435	Theft	Radwell	01/04/10-03/06/10
Offender(s) removed a generator and trailer from a field.

Crime no.	Offence	Location	Time & date
G4/10/436	Fraud or false representation	Ashwell	28/05/10-09/06/10
Offender(s) used a credit card and made transactions on the internet.

Crime no.	Offence	Location	Time & date
G4/10/455	Offensive weapon in public	Great North Road	13/06/10
Offender(s) was found to have reinforced industrial cable in their vehicle.

Crime No.	Offence	Location	Time & Date
G4/10/480	Driving Offence	Radwell	24/06/10
Offender(s) failed to provide a roadside breath test.

Crime No.	Offence	Location	Time & Date
G4/10/481	Burglary	Newnham	24/06/10
Offender(s) damaged infra red alarm sensors and alarm box, then entered the building and removed scrap metal from the premises.

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

Crime No.	Offence	Location	Time & Date
G4/10/433	Theft	Nuthampstead	07/08/06/10
Offender(s) entered a farm land and removed items that would require a crane.

Crime No.	Offence	Location	Time & Date
G4/10/487	Burglary	Nuthampstead	27/06/10
Offender(s) gained entry to a premises, made an untidy search, then damaged more units, no property was taken.

Crime no.	Offence	Location	Time & date
G4/10/491	Domestic Violence	Barley	27/06/10
A verbal altercation between two people, and police were called.

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

Crime No.	Offence	Location	Time & Date
G3/10/307	Drugs- Cannabis in possession	Sandon	03/06/10
Offender(s) was found to have herbal Cannabis on there persons.

Crime No.	Offence	Location	Time & Date
G3/10/330	Burglary - Dwelling	Weston	18/06/10
Offender(s) gained entry via the rear of the property, removing valuable items.

Crime No.	Offence	Location	Time & Date
G3/10/348	Damage or Destroy	Weston	01/02/10-23/06/10
Offender(s) have caused a large amount of damage to recreation ground

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
08-10	3	3	10	3	1	1	2	1	24

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

Last time we attended

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

Area	Last Meeting	Next Meeting	Location and Time
G4E	Tue 7th April 8pm	Monday 26th July 8pm	Parish Rooms
G4D	Wed 3^rd February 2010	Weds 1st Sept 8pm	Barkway Village Hall
G3C	Tue 2^nd February 2010	Weds 25th August at 8pm	Rushden Village, Hall.

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. 12 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

Weds 14^th July- Weston	Thurs 8^th July - Barley	Fri 2^nd July - Ashwell
Weds 4^th August- Sandon	Thurs 5^th August - Barkway	Fri 6^th August - Ashwell
Weds 8^th Sept - Weston	Thurs 2^nd Sept - Barley	Fri 3^rd Sept - Ashwell
Weds 13^th Oct - Sandon	Thurs 14^th Oct - Barkway	Fri 1^st Oct - Ashwell
Weds 3^rd Nov - Weston	Thurs 11^th Nov - Barley	Fri 5^th Nov - Ashwell
Weds 8^th Dec - Sandon	Thurs 9^th Dec - Barkway	Fri 3^rd Dec - 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.