Friday (13/9) saw the fourth day of Wycombe’s 100 days of action stint. Officers met with farmers from another 26 farms today, many of whom were interested in the offers and services available. 13 local farmers plan to take up the CESAR offer, 23 accepted several signs from us and six wish to have equestrian tack marked.
So far this week, officers have only had to deal with one loose horse in the Studley Green area. Most of the neighbourhood team have had training from the Horse Trust about how to catch and secure loose horses that may be causing a hazard on roads. Over the last few months, many rural based officers have also been shown how to approach and catch a horse, scan a microchip and tie up a horse.
For more information on horse health and welfare, visit the advice section of the Horse Trust website
As well as horses, we’ve also had calls about loose cows and sheep in Little Kimble. Thames Valley Police are currently piloting the Green Yard scheme which is a formal system to help police deal with horses loose on the roads. For each horse loose on the road, two officers are required to attend and make reasonable enquiries to find the owner, which could take up hours of valuable policing time!
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| Back where they belong |
Find out more about the Green Yard scheme and how you can protect your livestock on the Thames Valley Police website.
The Buckinghamshire Crime Prevention and Reduction Advisor has now conducted 8 site surveys, with many more planned in the future. This is a free service in which the advisor discusses access control and alarm options, how easy it is to locate tractors and other farm machinery, the benefits of CESAR marking and Selecta DNA property marking.
Selecta DNA is a fantastic covert marking system which allows forensic scientists to identify exactly where property, that suspects have touched, has come from. In other words, if a criminal steals, moves or buys a stolen piece of equipment, we can prove it was stolen, identify the victim with relative ease and make a prosecution more likely. Every person arrested and taken to a Thames Valley Police custody is checked for the presence of this substance which is invisible to the naked eye.
If you are interesting in getting your valuables forensically marked for security, wether it’s a mobile phone, hand-held tools or a television, speak to your local neighbourhood team by calling 101. Alternatively, you can type your postcode into the postcode search function on the Thames Valley Police website, find out who your local neighbourhood policing team are and email them with your query.
The vital statistics for Friday in Wycombe are...
26 farms visited
25 crime prevention packs delivered
5 signed up to Thames Valley Alerts
4 signed up to Country Watch alerts
4 signed up to Horse Watch alerts
23 gate signs put up
8 pieces of property marked with CRE mark
4 pieces of property marked with Selecta DNA
6 pieces of tack marked
13 bookings made for agricultural machinery to be marked with CESAR technology
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| Putting up Country Watch signage in likely... |
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The Wycombe team also visited Henley Show on Saturday (14/9). Property marking, crime prevention advice and sign ups to TV alert and Country watch led the activity for the day. Supt Gilbert Houalla, LPA Commander for Wycombe, joined the team talking to many members of the rural community.
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| Supt Houalla meeting the locals |
The team are now going through the many questionnaire sheets collected over the past 5 days and will be re-arranging visits to complete site surveys, tack and property marking and arranging a CESAR marking day, keep an eye out for the alert!
Officers across the area continued to visit farms and rural locations to deliver Country Watch crime prevention packs as in previous days.
During the past five days of the Wycombe 100 days of action, over 100 farms have been visited and had country watch packs delivered, crime prevention advice given and those not already in the system have been signed up to TV Alert and Country Watch.
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Sergeant Kevin Read, Neighbourhood Sergeant for the Bourne End and Wooburn, Marlow, South West Rural and Stokenchurch neighbourhood teams said of the last week’s activity: “The feedback from the rural community has been very positive this week with many new contacts made.
“The follow up visits and property marking will enable the team to build on these contacts and hopefully build up the community’s confidence in our abililty to tackle rural crime moving forward.”
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