WILTSHIRE POLICE AMESBURY RURAL NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICING TEAM NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH BULLETIN MAY 2012

YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICING TEAM.

PC Mark Steele, PCSO Will Todd, PCSO Shona Maycock and PCSO Gareth Cole We cover the following villages: Allington, Berwick St James, Boscombe, Cholderton, Deptford, The Gomeldons, Great Wishford, Idmiston, Hurdcott, Netton, Newton Toney, Orcheston, Porton, Salterton, Shrewton, Stapleford, Tilshead, The Langfords, The Woodford Valley, Winterbourne Dauntsey, Winterbourne Earls, Winterbourne Gunner, Winterbourne Stoke, Wylye

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A NEW FACE ON THE RURAL BEAT.

May I take this opportunity to introduce you to a new member of our little team: PCSO Gareth Cole has recently joined us on the Rural Beat.

Gareth is replacing PCSO Shona Maycock whilst she is away giving birth and getting to grips with becoming a mother for the first time. Shona is currently still working in the office but will be leaving in early June.

Gareth is currently being shown the ropes by Will Todd but will be ‘flying solo’ from the middle of May.

I hope that you will welcome Gareth and give him the kind of support and appreciation that you have done for the rest of the team over the years.

I also hope you will all wish Shona the best and we hope that she will be back with us sometime next year. No doubt wiser, but tired and very motherly!

LET’S NOT MAKE IT EASY FOR THEM.

I don’t know about you but I am a bit paranoid about someone stealing my stuff. It is probably because of the job I do but I don’t reckon there are too many occasions when I leave myself open to having my personal possessions stolen. My mobile phone, for instance, is never left anywhere unattended. In fact it’s in my pocket all the time. My wallet too, always tucked away in a pocket. If I had a handbag and I understand that it is perfectly acceptable for men to possess such items, it would never leave my side; in fact it would have a long strap and would nestle comfortably on my hip. My car never has anything of value in it and I lock it absolutely everywhere, seriously, no matter where I am as soon as I alight, it is locked. My shed, which contains my prized lawn mower, which incidentally has my name all over it, is securely locked in a shed. The shed is blocked in every night by my car, my securely locked car. So if I can do it without too much thought as it has become a routine, surely so can everyone else? Let’s not make thing easy for Mr Opportunist Thief, let’s make it as hard as we can. INCIDENTS OF NOTE – JANUARY 2011.

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INCIDENTS OF NOTE – APRIL 2012

A303 West of AMESBURY 7th Two motorists from Surrey had some sort of altercation which resulted in one of them throwing the other’s car keys onto the verge. Grown ups being very silly. BERWICK ST JAMES 4th Thieves cut wire fencing to gain access to a red diesel tank, which was empty. It is believed that they made off in an old Vauxhall Frontera. BOSCOMBE 10th A quantity of used cooking oil was stolen from the rear of a pub. GOMELDON 9th /10th A 10 man tent was stolen from a field adjacent to Gomeldon Road. GREAT DURNFORD 4th/5th A blue Ford Fiesta which was left having run out of petrol was stolen overnight. HIGH POST 26TH Man put £65 worth of petrol in his car and drove off making no effort to pay for it. LOWER WOODFORD Between 12th/16th A Stihl strimmer was stolen from an insecure shed. MIDDLE WOODFORD Between 2nd/ 6th An attempt was made to steal lead from the roof of a house. 13th 11pm a man from Salisbury was arrested for drink driving. 13th/14th Overnight an area of 12ft x 20ft of lead was stolen from the roof of All Saints Church. NEWTON TONEY th 13 A car window was smashed at a local do walking area and a coat was stolen. PORTON 1st Two men from Winchester were arrested having broken into Porton Garden centre. 21st Around midnight the windscreen of a parked car was smashed by someone hurling a terracotta chimney pot at it. Well that would do it. SHREWTON 4th An I-phone 4 was stolen from the changing rooms at the recreation Ground. 11th A 15 year old boy was spoken to after two 11 year old boys alleged that he had assaulted them. Strong words of advice all round. 20th/21st 40 bags of Horsehage were stolen from a farmyard. th 28 A burned out Suzuki Vitara was found. Enquiries into its ownership continue. WINTERBOURNE DAUNTSEY 24th/25th A pair of Ray ban Wayfarer sunglasses were stolen from a house. WINTERBOURNE GUNNER 12th 0240hrs a car was broken into and money was stolen. 2 men made off in what was described as a smart, red, two door car. WINTERBOURNE STOKE th 10 The driver of a foreign registered van put £137 worth of fuel into it and when his cards were refused he drove off without making payment. 22nd/23rd A large quantity of cash was stolen from a safe at a Petrol Station. 26th Two chainsaws were stolen from an insecure barn. Between 22nd/29th A window frame was removed from a workshop but no entry was gained. WYLYE 21st A man was stopped for speeding on the A36. He was then reported for driving with defective eyesight and his van was seized as he had no insurance. Not his day really.

IF ANYONE HAS ANY INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL NPT:

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