Royston
Community Team
Rural
Watch
November
2004
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Royston
Community Team Rural
Watch
November
2004 |
Covering
Arbury, Ermine, Weston & Sandon Wards.
Dwelling Burglaries have been very low only two reported in the last month, please do not get complacent, we still need to know anything that you consider suspicious. If you see people that you think should not be about please call 999, let us make the decision if we come out or not. I would much prefer to get ten calls with nine false alarms and one good call than none at all. The majority of crime is committed by a small percentage of the population and when we get our hands on them it is very easy to deal with them. The end result is that they don’t come back and if they know we have a lot of neighbours that call the Police as soon as they see strange things happen they will always give our area a wide berth.
Once again I am pleased to say that general crime was very low on my beat in the last month. The down side is that I have very little to write about. We have had a few minor problems in one of the villages. This was damage caused by a group of youngsters.
I am still finding that people are not reporting incidents to me. I had heard through the grape vine about these problems, so I did what I get paid for and in two days I had solved over 60% of the crimes and no doubt stopped any more from happening. So please speak to me.
On the 23rd November we had a report of coursers in Hinxworth, the ground they were on is Bedfordshire, but we attended. We have the facility via our computer to check to see if a vehicle is insured. We soon found that their vehicle was not insured. I call out the Bedfordshire Police out who seized the keys for the vehicle (and will only return them when insurance is obtained for the vehicle). The five occupants then walked home. Must have been invigorating as they live in south London.
On the 14th November we had a report of coursers on the Bygrave Road, Ashwell. It did not take us long to find them, they were just taking the Lurchers out of the vehicle when we turned up. One of the vehicles had two under inflated tyres and a cracked windscreen. The other car had one under inflated tyre. Both drivers were reported for these offences and summonses have been drawn up.
On the 9th November we had a report of coursers in Kelshall, we found these chaps on a farm in Sandon they had got their vehicle stuck on farmland. No one admitted being the driver so under new powers we have we removed the vehicle. The owner will now have to make contact we me to arrange its return; this will be at his cost.
The legal alcohol limit for driving is 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood but there is no failsafe guide to the amount of alcohol that a driver can safely consume.
The amount and type of alcoholic drink, the weight, sex and metabolism of the driver, all play a part, but any amount of alcohol affects driving ability. A motorist's ability to judge speed and distance may be impaired, their reaction times may be slowed and their judgement of risk seriously affected.
Since 1976 the drink drive campaign has run each year and it has been a major contributor in developing understanding of the consequences and in changing attitudes and behaviour. The percentage of people failing breath tests after road injury accidents fell from 8.5% in 1990 to 3.7% in 2000.
Stiffer penalties - penalties have been made more severe as public attitudes to drinking and driving have hardened. The offence of 'causing death by dangerous driving whilst under the influence of drink or drugs' now carries a maximum penalty of 10 years imprisonment and a disqualification of at least 2 years.
Objectives - although the incidence of drinking and driving has dropped dramatically over the years, the issue needs to be kept in the public arena so that people do not become complacent. Young male driver’s in particular need a constant reminder about the dangers as they are over represented in drink driving accidents.
Please click on the link below it will take you to couple of pages that displays a few people that we would like to have a chat to!
http://www.herts.police.uk/CCTV/gallery.htm
http://www.angliawestcrimestoppers.org.uk/
http://www.horsetackexchange.co.uk
http://www.stolenhorseregister.com
Not
all crimes that have occurred appear on this newsletter as it is always up to
the injured party if they wish them to be published.
My phone Number 01462425224
(mid to long term problems) 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.
chris.brabrook@herts.pnn.police.uk