Royston Community Team

Rural Watch

March 2007

Covering Arbury, Ermine, Weston & Sandon Wards.

This year the Neighbourhood Policing model will develop further with the formation of Locality Panels. The Panels will be representative of the Community as a whole, and will have a say in the way we police your area. The Panel Members will meet with the Police on a regular basis and agree upon local priorities. It is expected that there will be no more than three priorities set at any one time. The groups will include Parish councillors, District/County and Neighbourhood watch representatives and other local groups and individuals. The Meetings will be held locally and each Panel will decide on the frequency of meetings. I would like to think that with the regular contact that I have with parish councils and other local groups we are already achieve a high level of consultation, and the new panels will formalise the process and provide an audit trail. If you have any views on what would make a difference to you in the way we police or would like to be involved as a Panel Member I would be grateful to hear from you.

There will be a Neighbour Hood Watch meeting at Rushden Village hall at 8pm on Tuesday 27^th March 2007 this will be for all G3C; - Sandon, Wallington, Rushden, Clothal & Weston. If you think that you may wish to join NHW please come along, we are particularly short of members is Sandon, all are welcome. I would like a members of all parish councils to come along as we will be discussing all crime and new and the forming of locality panels.

Hinxworth	High Street	21/02/07 1050 - 1110	18 veh / 35 mph / 24.6 mph
Ashwell	West end / Newham way	Road closed 22/02
Ashwell	Station rd (40 limit)	21/02/07 1155 - 1220	20 veh / 39 mph / 30.5 mph
Weston	Damask green rd	21/02/07 1005 - 1030	14 veh / 30 mph / 23.4 mph
Rushden	Moon + Stars	22/02/07 0930 - 1000	19 veh / 37 mph / 26.5 mph
Bygrave	Upper Bygrave	21/02/07 1650 - 1715	20 veh / 34 mph / 28.6 mph
Barley	London Road	19/02/07 1310 –1330	28 veh / 37 mph / 28.7 mph
Barkway	Royston Road	22/02/07 0800 - 0830	20 veh / 35 mph / 26.2 mph
Therfield	Hay Green	16/02/07 1600 - 1625	17 veh / 30 mph / 24.5 mph
Newham	Ashwell road	21/02/07 1120 - 1140	17 veh / 31 mph / 24 mph

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

Between 10.30pm and 11pm on Saturday 3^rd February a vehicle had windscreen wipers snapped off and a wing mirror damaged whilst parked in Hodwell, Ashwell. (Crime no.’s G4/07/149 & 150).

During the early hours of Sunday 4^th February, car badges were removed from two vehicles parked in Lucas Lane, Ashwell. (Crime no.’s G4/07/147 & G4/07/148).

Burglars targeted an industrial unit in Ashwell Street, Ashwell twice during the first week of February. The first incident occurred during the weekend beginning Friday 2^nd February and the second at 10.15pm on Wednesday 7^th February. On both occasions a large quantity of metal was stolen from the premises.

(Crime no.’s G4/07/157 & G4/07/172).

Electric fencing was stolen from a field in Ashwell Road, Hinxworth, overnight from Monday 5^th and Tuesday 6^th February. (Crime no. G4/07/166).

Woodwork tools were stolen from a Ford van parked in High Street, Hinxworth overnight between Tuesday 13^th and Wednesday 14^th February.

(Crime no. G4/07/191).

Overnight on Thursday 15^th February a satellite navigation system and a quantity of DVD’s were stolen from a Vehicle whilst it was parked in Ashwell Road, Bygrave (Crime no. G4/07/201). The following night, the front and rear registration plates were stolen from a Vauxhall Astra, which had been parked in Radwell Lane, Radwell. (Crime no. G4/07/202).

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

Between 8pm and 10pm on Saturday 3^rd February, a Volkswagen Golf parked at the Woodman Inn at Nuthampstead and a Landrover Discovery parked in the High Street, Barley, were broken into and satellite navigation systems stolen.

(Crime no.’s G4/07/143 & G4/07/144).

A house in Reed was burgled between 10am and 3pm on Thursday 22^nd February. The thief entered the house via a back door and stole a quantity of money and a passport from the kitchen.

(Crime no. G4/07/232).

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

Nothing significant.

FIVE SENTENCED FOR DRIVING TEST FRAUD

THIRTY-NINE-year-old Ahmed Muse was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment at St Albans Crown Court on Friday (February 16) for impersonating his co-defendants by taking driver theory tests on their behalf for cash.

Muse, of Holborn Gardens in London, was sentenced for 11 counts of obtaining property by deception between July 25, 2003 and March 22, 2006, when he took driver theory tests for people across the country in exchange for £200.

Salim Ahdal, 30, of Harrington Square in London was ordered to complete 100 hours of compulsory unpaid work for two counts of obtaining property by deception. Omar Adnan, 46, of Clifton Road in Birmingham, Ali Dahir, 40, of High Road in Tottenham and Ahmed Omar, 32, Englands Lane, London, were given 100 hours compulsory unpaid work for one count of obtaining property by deception.

YOU COULD HELP TRAIN POLICE OFFICERS!

COULD you pose as a shoplifter, pretend to have been assaulted or claim to have found a body?

Hertfordshire Constabulary’s training department already has several volunteer residents and local businesses in Letchworth testing student officers’ basic skills but would like to get more on board in Letchworth – and Stevenage, where the new Six Hills Court training Headquarters is based.

“To make the officers’ training more realistic and more relevant to potential situations they may face, we are asking for your help to come and work with our student officers,” said Compass Training Manager Andrea Armstrong, who re-designed the modernised programme. “We already have several volunteers who have been excellent in testing our student officers and because the programme is working so well, we need even more volunteers!”

The modernised Compass programme has been designed to better equip officers with the right skills to carry out their varied duties in line with a Government recommendation for all police forces to become responsible for all their own training.

Previously student officers spent 12 weeks on a residential course in Ryton, Warwickshire and Ashford, Kent.

With Compass, after the officers have spent four weeks at Six Hills Court in Stevenage, they will spend 12 weeks at Letchworth where lessons will include police powers and common offences, crime investigation, victim needs, traffic law, interviewing and custody procedures.

Local business premises are needed to host practicals for these lessons and volunteers are needed to play the parts of victims, suspects and witnesses.

Any residents or local businesses willing to give up at least six hours of their time are asked to contact Sarah Ashdown on 01438 757788 for further details.

Total for 2003 – 2004 = 80

Total for 2004 – 2005 = 26

Total for 2005 – 2006 = 6

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

Last time we attended

RUSHDEN	01/02/06	SANDON	08/02/06
THERFIELD	25/01/07	REED	24/05/06
BARKWAY	11/07/06	BARLEY	08/01/07
KELSHALL	24/04/06	NUTHAMP	03/05/06
ASHWELL	06/12/06	BYGRAVE	08/01/07
CALDECOTE	21/04/05	WESTON	08/06/06
RADWELL	26/04/05	WALLIGTON	01/02/06
HINXWORT	07/06/05	CLOTHALL	29/11/06

Area	Last Meeting	Next Meeting	Location and Time
G4E	31^st January 2007		Parish Rooms, Ashwell 7.30pm
G4D	7^th December 2006
G3C	19^th September 2006	27^th March 2007	Rushden Village hall at 8pm

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

March 2007

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

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

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.