Basingstoke Rural East

Covering the wards of: Bramley and Sherfield-on-Loddon, Pamber and Silchester, Tadley South and Tadley Central. www.hampshire.police.uk

Welcome to the Basingstoke Rural East Newsletter for May 2019

Your Neighbourhood Policing Team includes: PC Lee Stanbrook PC Kersten Studd PCSO Emma Page

COME AND MEET US!  17 May 07:30-09:30 Parish Breakfast, St Mary’s Church, Tadley

 1 June 10:30-11:30 Silchester Village Market, Village Hall Community priorities — a message from our Inspector Hello — I would like to say a very big thank you to PCSO Emma Page for giving up her time on Saturday 30 March. She set herself up in the library car park and spoke to adults and children, allowed them to explore the police van and try on a police helmet and riot helmet. She was kept very busy for the few hours she was there. This is such a great way of reaching out to the community. The feedback from everyone was very positive and we hope to do it again very soon. Many thanks to all of you who helped us with our recent Community Priorities Survey. We received 634 replies, which is an amazing return. Many of you remain understandably very concerned about burglaries, theft from motor vehicles and criminal damage within your local area. I accept that these are areas that we must be fully aware of, but I am also aware that reporting of all three types of these offences appears to be lower than the figures in our last quarterly review. In making a decision on what type of crime we should focus on in your local area, I have to use the resources I have in the most effective way I can. I also have to look at what our own, wider priorities are and what our current crime figures tell us about crime in Tadley Central, Tadley South, Pamber, Silchester, Bramley and Sherfield. While crimes of violence or serious harm still remain relatively low in Basingstoke, our principal focus, as you may well be aware, centres on preventing the most serious types of violent offences, whether they are linked to knives, drugs, domestic violence, the sexual and criminal exploitation of children and the protection of other types of vulnerable people, such as those who are repeatedly being reported as missing. Given this, I have decided that focus for this quarter in Tadley Central, Tadley South, Pamber, Silchester, Bramley and Sherfield will aim to reduce the overall number of violent offences resulting in injuries to victims. Please do continue to report all types of crime. Your local beat officers will continue to act to reduce the number of all types of offences in your local area and we will continue to monitor any emerging trends in offences. — Inspector Hannah Luchesa Neighbourhood Watch Other police news (NW) Pamber and Silchester Interested in joining a local We are investigating an incident in which a man NW scheme? To see if was assaulted following a burglary in Little there is one, look to see if London. It was reported that a large quantity of there are local yellow NW cash was stolen from inside The Plough in street signs. This usually Silchester Road at around 10.30pm on 14 April. suggests there is an active local scheme, so Following this, a man in his 30s was assaulted you need to find out who is coordinating it. One in the car park and was taken to hospital with a way is to go to the website at head injury. www.ourwatch.org.uk and enter your postcode. Enquiries into the exact circumstances are Yellow dots indicate approved schemes in the ongoing. Three people have been arrested in locality and these will also be listed. You can connection with this incident. They are a 31- then send a request to the coordinator asking year-old man from Didcot, a 17-year-old boy him/her to join the scheme. from Reading, and a 27-year-old man from Not all schemes are registered on the website, Reading. so send an email with your full details, to Rogue traders called on an address in Pamber [email protected] or Heath. An elderly couple handed over £50 to [email protected] and they will investigate workmen who said that they had come from and get back to you as soon as possible. Tadley Town Council to cut back trees. PCSO Emma Page has recently provided talks in the community on how to protect yourself from this type of fraud. If in doubt, keep them out! Bobby Buddies Two vans were stolen last month, on 9 April in We are seeking knitters in our Stephens Road and on 12 April in Mortimer community! This is a force West End. Two thefts from motor vehicles have initiative to get members of the also been reported at Cheriton Close and community to knit these ‘Bobby Linton Close. Buddies’. This initiative will allow police to share your lovingly knitted bear with a child There have been several incidents where going through a distressing experience. commercial batteries have been stolen from telephone masts. If you have any information, If you have knitting skills and some spare time, contact PC William Butcher who is your local please consider helping us knit some Bobby Country Watch officer. Buddies. If you would like the knitting pattern, [email protected] please contact your local neighbourhood team (basingstoke.rural.police A man was arrested and charged with a drink- @hampshire.pnn.police.uk) driving offence at Stratfield Saye. and we will send you a copy. Any lovingly knitted bears can be handed over to the front Did you know? counter of Basingstoke Police Investigation The nearest police front counter to here is at Centre (Jays Close, Basingstoke) or to your the Police Investigation Centre in Jays Close, local PCSO. Basingstoke, RG22 4BS Tadley Throughout April 2019, Hampshire Fire Rescue Service and Hampshire Constabulary have responded to numerous fires on open land around Tadley and Baughurst. We have launched an arson investigation into the cause of these fires, which were mainly started in wooded areas. Three teenage boys were PCSO Emma Page meeting with members of the public in the library car park on 30 March arrested on 25 April. They have all been interviewed and released under investigation. Bramley and Sherfield-on-Loddon We ask that no one speculates as to who has We have been receiving reports of Anti Social been arrested. If you have any information Behaviour from the Parish Council and have about these incidents, contact PC Simon been patrolling the area alongside Community Denton at Tadley Police Station or email Safety Patrol Officers during shifts throughout simon.denton @hampshire.pnn.police.uk. April. If you are affected by ASB, report by We had several reports of youths climbing over calling 101. We have been able to identify roofs in the Franklin Avenue area. ASB several young persons who will be receiving Warning Notices have been issued to the 3 follow up contact from the team. youths involved. In an unrelated incident, It would appear that the level of ASB reports youths accessed an unsecured bike storage had fallen throughout the month, however over shed at Boundary Place. PCSO Emma Page the Easter weekend, there were incidents investigated both incidents. If you are affected reported where a tree trunk in Bramley Green by Anti Social Behaviour in your area, call 101 Road was moved to the middle of the road. We to report the incident. also received reports of ASB at the railway A burglary has been reported at an address in crossing, with one youth described as pushing Elmhurst, the officer investigating the report is the level crossing up and down, and a PC Lee Stanbrook. If you have information, concrete bollard has been ripped up at the Lee can be contacted at Tadley police station entrance to Clift Meadow. Vandalism has also or he can be emailed at been reported to the cricket pavilion building. [email protected]. If If you have information that will assist in you want to remain anonymous then contact identifying those involved then contact PCSO Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Emma Page at Theft of fuel has been reported by a lorry driver [email protected]. whilst his vehicle was parked in a lay-by A horse trailer was stolen from an address at overnight on the A340 between Basingstoke Wildmoor Lane. and Tadley. Other crimes reported are criminal damage to a window at a property at Newtown, There have been two theft from vehicle To report crime or suspicious activity, call offences. us on 101 or report it online by going to www.hampshire.police.uk. You can also report it anonymously to CrimeStoppers instead of the police, on 0800 555111.