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POLICE RURAL NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICING TEAM NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH BULLETIN FEBRUARY 2012

YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICING TEAM.

PC Mark Steele, PCSO Will Todd, and PCSO Shona Maycock We cover the following villages: Allington, , Boscombe, , Deptford, The Gomeldons, , , Hurdcott, Netton, Newton Toney, Orcheston, Porton, Salterton, , Stapleford, , The Langfords, The Woodford Valley, Winterbourne , , , ,

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HOW ABOUT THIS FOR GOOD NEWS!

The British Crime Survey results were published last week for the period between October 2010 and the end of September 2011. It is official, with the lowest levels of reported violent crime of all the counties in the country, Wiltshire is (imagine very loud and impressive fanfare) ‘The safest County in the Country’. That’s it, job done; I’m off to put my feet up with a large mug of coffee and a slice of homemade carrot cake. Aren’t we all marvellous? The world is a fine place to be and we are in one of the best bits. Doesn’t it make you want to gambol naked through a meadow singing ‘We are the champions? No? Just me then. What does it actually mean? How can we interpret this news? Is it a blip in the figures? Well here’s my take on it. Wiltshire has always been there or there abouts when it comes to being the safest place to live in the country. A large rural county with a relatively low density, albeit growing, population. The Wiltshire police are one of the best performing forces in the country and now, officially, the population of Wiltshire is the best performing population! So there we are, pats on the back all round. Let’s all try to make sure that we stay at No1 for evermore!

CONSULTING OUR COMMUNITIES.

Your Neighbourhood Policing Team, that’s me, Will and Shona will be out and about in the Bourne and Wylye Valleys over the next couple of months knocking on doors to introduce ourselves and ask if there is anything that we can help you with. Police related of course, we’re not offering to wash your car, train your dog or help you decorate the spare room!

Last week Will and I were in Wylye itself knocking on doors and we had a tremendously friendly response from you. Thank you, it does make it a much more pleasurable experience for us to be greeted by smiling faces. We have been asking for e-mail addresses from you so that we can communicate more easily. I promise that I will not bombard you with e-mails, just relevant and hopefully interesting tomes. We produce a very brief weekly update and this monthly bulletin, barring a need for an emergency communiqué that will be that. Sadly we are never going to get round to every house in the two valleys in the next two months so to help us with our ‘consultation process’ it would be great if you could drop us a quick e-mail with anything that you think we might be able to help you with.

Please remember that we are here to help but we can’t do anything about something we are not aware of!

INCIDENTS OF NOTE – JANUARY 2011.

IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION RELATING TO ANY OF THE ABOVE PLEASE CONTACT US. If you would prefer to remain anonymous ring CRIMESTOPPERS ON 0800 555 111

INCIDENTS OF NOTE – JANUARY 2012.

DRUIDS LODGE 28th A handbag was stolen from an unlocked car parked at the Polo Ground. IDMISTON Prior to the 5th a Stihl chainsaw and strimmer were stolen from an outbuilding. th 8 A drunk male was arrested on suspicion of assault. NEWTON TONEY Between the 1st and the 10th a woman has received several malicious text messages. Enquiries are continuing to identify the sender. 15th A car was broken into at a popular dog walking spot, nothing was stolen. PORTON 1st in the early hours of New Years day Chinese food was thrown over the outside of a house. Two local youths have been dealt with. 5th A woman received several malicious telephone calls. A man from Amesbury was has been arrested and the investigation is ongoing. th 13 A 16 year old girl received numerous malicious telephone calls. Enquiries traced the perpetrator to be a woman in Shropshire who has been dealt with. 14th A 13 year old girl was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a member of staff at children’s home. 23rd A number plate was removed from a Range Rover in the village. It later turned up so could possibly just be an idiotic prank. SHREWTON 0340hrs on the 7th A burglary occurred at The Bridge Garage, a large quantity of cigarettes were stolen. Between the 14th and 17th An electric fence unit was stolen from a farm at Elston. 21st A large brick was thrown at the window of The Bridge Garage in a suspected burglary attempt. The window failed to smash and the thief left the scene. Overnight 28th / 29th 3 pallets of bagged horse feed were stolen from an open sided barn. WILSFORD Overnight 17th/18th A field gate was rammed by thieves who then stole two electric fence units from the field. WINTERBOURNE GUNNER Prior to the 15th A picket fence in Gomeldon Road has been regularly damaged by vandals. The grit bin on Gomeldon Hill has also been tipped over twice by mindless vandals. WYLYE Prior to the 14th Thieves stole heating oil from The Bell Public House.

If you have any information that you think might be useful to us in respect of any of

the above reported incidents please contact us on 101 or E-mail us on [email protected]

NEIGHBOURHOOD TASKING GROUP MEETING

We will be holding our next Neighbourhood Tasking Group Meeting at 7.30pm on Friday the 9th of March. The NTG is made up of key members of the public based within our Policing area. The meeting will be held at Amesbury Police Station and it is open to members of the public. At this meeting we will divulge the findings of our consultations and in conjunction with the NTG we will be deciding what we need to prioritise for the months of April, May and June.

If you would like to attend this meeting or become involved with the Neighbourhood Tasking Group, please let me know either by e-mail or by ringing 101 and asking to speak to a member of the Amesbury Rural Neighbourhood Policing Team.