Royston Community Team

Rural Watch

2011

May 2011

PC 431 Paul Marina PCSO 6117Amy Rainbird PCSO 6522 Brabrook

Covering Arbury, Ermine, Weston & Sandon Wards.

Last year we had a few problems with teenagers lighting Bonfires on local farm land, this mostly occurred on a Friday or Saturday night starting about 10.30 and could go on all night with the revellers sleeping in tents. There was evidence of under age drinking and also a number of criminal offences were committed, theft of fences posts for fuel and damage to crops or grassland. If you have a teenage child please will you have a word with them and if they say they are staying over with a friend can you check out their story. I have had three children that are now all past their teenage years and know how devious they can be. My mother caught me by the smell of smoke on my cloths.

This behaviour, if it does not stop could result in a teenager having a criminal record!

A BUNTINGFORD motorist who struck another driver during a road rage incident last August has been given a suspended prison sentence. Ian Shaw, 49, was angry that the other driver had tried to block his overtaking on the A10 Buntingford Bypass.

When Shaw managed to get passed the other car he pulled up, went back to the other driver who was sitting behind the wheel of his car and punched him several times. However witnesses to the attack noted his registration number and he was later arrested.

At St Albans Crown Court on Wednesday, Shaw of Greenways, Buntingford pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Prosecutor Geoffrey Porter said the incident occurred on August 31 last year. He said the defendant came up behind the other driver who was travelling at around 50 miles per hour along the bypass. He explained because it appeared that the other driver had tried to stop him overtaking, Mr. Shaw eventually stopped his car and carried out the attack swearing at the driver as he did so.

Judge Stephen Gullick sentenced Shaw to five month imprisonment suspended for two years. He will also be subject to a four month home curfew between the hours of 8.30pm and 4am. In addition Shaw must pay his victim £600 in compensation and £1200 towards the prosecution costs.

If you are walking in the countryside at this time of year you may find young Fallow Deer Fawns that appears to have been abandoned. The chances are that the mother (Doe) is away feeding, they do return at regular intervals to feed the youngster. This is normal and in the first months the fawns are completely scentless this is Mother Natures way of protecting the fawns from foxes and stay dogs. So if you do find one please give it a wide birth and leave it in place

Amount Highest Average

Hinxworth	High Street	21/04/11 1635 - 1705	24 veh / 38 mph / 26.4 mph
Newham	Ashwell road	20/04/11 1700 - 1730	34 veh / 40 mph / 29 mph
Bygrave	Upper Bygrave	21/04/11 1550 - 1620	20 veh / 32 mph / 26.35 mph
Ashwell	Station Road (40 limit)	21/04/11 1720 - 1750	24 veh / 54 mph / 38.8 mph
Ashwell,	Newnham Way	20/04/11 1745 - 1815	67 veh / 39 mph / 26.2 mph
Weston	Hatch Lane	20/04/11 1545 - 1615	25 veh / 32 mph / 25.7 mph

Date & Times	Location	Cautions	Fixed fines	Prosecutions
	Barley Camb Rd		Not taken Place due to speed monitoring equipment at site.
	Therfield Rooks Nest
	Mill End Rusden
	Barkway Camb Rd

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

Crime No.	Offence	Location	Date
G4/11/279	Theft	Ashwell	28/03 -02/04/11
Offender(s) have entered rear garden and removed items

Crime no.	Offence	Location	Time & date
G4/11/315	Theft	Ashwell	13/04/11
Offender(s) have used a vehicle to remove over head cables.

Crime no.	Offence	Location	Time & date
G4/11/317	Damage - Arson	Bygrave	12-14/04/11
Offender(s) have set fire to a notice board in a bus shelter.

Crime no.	Offence	Location	Time & date
G4/11/321	Driving whilst disqualified	Newnham	16/04/11
Offender was seen by police driving a vehicle. Offender was stopped and arrested.

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

Crime No.	Offence	Location	Time & Date
G4/11/283	Theft	Barley	01-02/04/11
Offender(s) have driven on to a farm yard and removed a large amount of scrap metal

Crime No.	Offence	Location	Time & Date
G4/11/304	Theft	Barkway	10-11/04/11
Offender(s) have stolen scrap metal from a yard. Offender(s) were later arrested and charged.

Crime no.	Offence	Location	Time & date
G4/11/310	Theft	Reed	13/04/11
Offender(s) have stolen two heavy steel chains. Offender(s) were later arrested and charged.

Crime No.	Offence	Location	Time & Date
G4/11/311	Theft	Reed	04/04/11
Offender(s) have stolen scrap metal from a farm yard. Offender(s) were later arrested and charged.

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

Crime No.	Offence	Location	Time & Date
G3/11/163	Damage - Arson	Weston	01/04/11
Offender(s) have attempted to cause a fire in a wooden structure.

Crime No.	Offence	Location	Time & Date
G3/11/180	Fraud –false representation	Weston	13/04/11
Offender(s) have taken out a loan without person’s knowledge.

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

Last time we attended

RUSHDEN	28/09/10	SANDON	01/12/10
THERFIELD	06/09/10	REED	04/03/09
BARKWAY	11/04/11	BARLEY	04/10/10
KELSHALL	11/04/11	NUTHAMP	09/06/09
ASHWELL	02/06/10	BYGRAVE	07/02/11
CALDECOTE	28/03/11	WESTON	12/08/10
RADWELL	10/05/10	WALLINGTON	28/09/10
HINXWORT	09/09/10	CLOTHALL	13/12/10

Area	Last Meeting	Next Meeting (provisionally booked for )	Location and Time 8pm
G4E	Monday 26th July 2010	Thursday 2nd June 2011	Parish Rooms, Ashwell
G4D	Weds 1st Sept 2010	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

Locality

Members

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

Meeting

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



Wed 6^th May - Weston	Sat 21^st May – Barkway 1000-1100 – Joint with Barkway Parish Council	Fri 20^th May - Ashwell
Sat 18^th June – Sandon Growers Market - 0930-1130	Wed 1^st June - Barley	Fri 3^rd June - Ashwell
-------------------------------------	Sat 16^th July – Barkway 1000-1100 – Joint with Barkway Parish Council	Fri 8^th July - Ashwell
Thurs 11^th August – Sandon Cecil Sale	Wed 3^rd August - Barley	Fri 19^th August - Ashwell
Wed 14^th Sept - Weston	Sat 17^th Sept – Barkway 1000-1100 – Joint with Barkway Parish Council	Fri 16^th Sept - 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

2011

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.