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CRIME IN YOUR AREA INSPECTORS UPDATE RECOGNISING THE WORK OF Did you know you can obtain crime At last we have had some sunny NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH statistics, crime outcomes and weather! Although unfortunately Neighbourhood Watch is valued as recent convictions? this has meant that my worst fears one of the UK’s largest community www.police.uk gives you access have been realised and decent crime prevention initiatives. to local crime and policing honest folk have been going to Schemes are owned and run by information for your postcode area. bed and leaving their downstairs people within the community who windows open, or sitting out in the come together wanting to make an PRIORITIES garden and leaving their doors area a safe and pleasant place to PACT meetings are an opportunity unlocked. live. Neighbourhood Watch to share policing concerns and set And guess what? They have been encourages communities to pull priorities for the police to focus on. burgled by opportunist thieves who together to resolve local issues Your Local Priorities: walk around looking for homes and aid the Police with crime  Adel Speeding on Church Lane with windows open, or simply prevention and detection of crime.  Cookridge No Current Priorities trying door handles until they find a Our Neighbourhood Watch Co-  Holt Park ASB & nuisance bikes home they can walk into. ordinators are a key link between If you know someone who may the Police and scheme members; LOCAL NEWS leave their property insecure, sharing issues and problems Earlier in the month a burglary and please do them a favour and affecting the community and attempt burglary were reported in remind them that they run the risk sharing crime and crime the Cookridge area, with one of becoming a burglary statistic. prevention information. resulting in the owners’ vehicle Although we live in a low crime To recognise the enthusiasm and being stolen. We are pleased to area, with burglaries below the exceptional work of some of our advise that 5 people have been national average and amongst the dedicated Neighbourhood Watch arrested and enquiries ongoing. lowest in West , still Co-ordinators; Inspector Richard In other news, we have received a approximately 50% of our Coldwell of & few reports of vandalism at Adel burglaries at present aren't break- Wharfedale NPT presented Methodist Church. Two slides ins because the thief has entered certificates in the following broken in the play area and a bird through an open door or window. categories: table smashed. Enquiries are Even more surprising, we have CASAC Award for Crime ongoing to identify those had a spate of vehicle crime in the Prevention presented to Pauline responsible and officers continue area and 80% of these Hanson and Adele Carr. patrols in the area. have been due to unlocked cars! It Long Service Awards presented to Complaints have been received in gets worse though, unlocked cars Harry Redford, Adele Carr and relation to youths accessing the where the owner has left valuable Gary Hewitt. derelict Eastmoor School site. items like a sat nav, digital camera Officers continue to patrol the area Special Recognition Awards or MP3 player, often in full view. in an attempt to discourage youths presented to David Lawson and and reduce ASB. We really do try our best to protect John Popplewell In Holt Park, a 16 year old male the public and keep crime down, was arrested and has been but please do your part in helping charged with criminal damage us to do this by making sure your after officers attended a home is secure and your vehicle disturbance in the area; the male locked, with no items of value left had thrown stones and a metal bar inside. through the window and caused Inspector Richard Coldwell damage to the door of a property. 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The is Maureen Brewer, who can be http://www.westyorkshire.police.uk campaign will recommend the best telephoned on 01937 582441 or /contact-us/report-crime approach to advising and guiding email: [email protected] children about what’s right and Please specify your name, what’s not, and suggest some Neighbourhood Watch as the sticker PROPERTY REGISTRATION technology steps parents can put type required, quantity needed and www.immobilise.com in place to keep checks on their delivery address. Please allow up to Register your valuables for FREE online activity. It’s about being a 10 working days for your order to be on Immobilise, the world's largest ‘switched on’ parent equipped to processed. property register. 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