Community Priorities the Current Neighbourhood Priority Is Burglary
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Basingstoke Rural West Covering the wards of: Baughurst and Tadley North; Kingsclere; Sherborne St John; Burghclere, Highclere and St Mary Bourne; East Woodhay www.hampshire.police.uk Welcome to the Basingstoke Rural West newsletter, September 2019 Your neighbourhood policing team includes: PC Simon Denton PC Jon Hayes PC Martyn Evans has been promoted and moved to a new role as a sergeant at Yateley. You can contact the team at [email protected] — though this address is not monitored every day. For reporting crime, call 101 or go to the Hampshire police website. Community priorities The current neighbourhood priority is burglary. The number of burglary reports has been low throughout August , albeit there have been cases of opportunist theft in other adjacent areas. Tractor parts have been stolen from Binley, and garage breaks have been reported at Wells Lane in Whitchurch, and in Laverstoke. On 1 August, a burglary was reported at Franklin Avenue in Tadley. Five days later, a property was broken into in Sydmonton. The latter incident occurred during the morning. The resident reported seeing an old Land Rover driving around in suspicious circumstances. Now that summer is coming to an end, why not take the opportunity to make security marks on your garden machinery and lawnmowers before you put them away? You should also check if the access to you garden is secure. For further security, consider putting alarms on your outbuildings. Theft in rural car parks update Did you know? We have continued to receive reports of goods being stolen from vehicles parked in rural car We have been running a ‘Paint it Pink’ parks at Beacon Hill, White Hill, Jonathan Hill campaign for batteries. To prevent the and Sydmonton. The vehicles are targeted large batteries from being stolen, paint when people leave them there to go walking. them pink. This makes it easier for them to Not all cases result in property being stolen. be identified as stolen goods. Hampshire Please make sure it’s obvious that there is Police have urged scrap metal merchants nothing in your vehicle. We will continue to pa- to reject and report any pink batteries that trol the car parks. are offered to them. Parish news Kingsclere, Headley and Ashford Hill Baughurst and Tadley North There have been no burglary reports in the There have been several reports of assaults area in August. This has been a relief, as in and anti-social behavior (ASB) in the area of July there were break-ins reported involving Bishopswood Road, Bays Court and Wigmore garages and allotment sheds. Park. We have increased our patrols in these areas. We are also working with the public to The post office in Headley reported an identify the youths that are linked to it. The incident in which people tried to confuse staff ASB issues reported are: youths climbing on at the shop. It is suspected that this was an the flat roofs behind the shops and people attempt to steal money from the shop. smoking cannabis in the park. We received report of people acting The Community Safety Patrol officers have suspiciously, when a white Mercedes Sprinter also been asked to patrol the area. If you live van was seen driving around the area. It is within this area and are affected by ASB, suspected they were checking out properties. please report it to us. PCSO Luke Edwards is A digger has been interfered with at a property the PCSO for the area and can be contacted in the area. This follows on from several thefts on [email protected] . in July where batteries were among the items stolen. Paint was poured onto a vehicle that was parked overnight in Franklin Avenue, In the Highclere, Burghclere & St Marybourne same street, Propane gas cylinders were There have been reports of vehicles stolen from inside a caravan. Last month we frequenting Ecchinswell Village Hall, and it is reported that electrical chords had been stolen believed they may have been involved in from two caravans in that area. smoking cannabis. On 1 August, a vehicle A ladder was stolen from the roof of a works was stopped in Ecchinswell and the driver van at Wigmore Road. was found in possession of cannabis. This was dealt with as a community resolution. The blocks of garages behind Bays Court and the garages on Hangar Road were damaged. Some property has been recovered in A local resident reported seeing three children Burghclere after being stolen from vehicles aged about 10 (two boys and a girl) climbing parked in the beauty spot car parks. over the roof. Lastly, door-to-door sellers have been reported in the area. If you don’t want to buy their good, then don’t feel pressured to do so. Definition To report crime or suspicious activity, A community resolution is when a crime or call us on 101 or report it online by going incident is resolved with an agreement to www.hampshire.police.uk. You can also between the police, offender and anyone report it anonymously to CrimeStoppers else affected. instead of the police, on 0800 555111. .