DAY 61: Milton Keynes and the Mounted Section patrol the rural areas

Throughout last week, the Force’s Mounted section (horses to you and me), provided support to the rural neighbourhood teams.  More commonly used for policing events like football matches, protests in fact any event where a lot of people are likely to be congregating, the horses are a particularly handy resource for tackling rural crime as they are able to patrol hard to reach, remote locations where offences like hare coursing have been known to take place in the past.

The Hon. Richard Godber and his wife, rural NAG chair Susan Hughes, PCSO Pat Flynn and PCs Kirsty Wilson and Tim Pollock

The mounted section have also recently launched their own Force Twitter feed. This means you can keep up to date with what the mounted section officers and their horses are getting up to. To follow find their Twitter handle @TVP_Horses.

DAY 30 EXTENDED: Emergency Services Day at Waddesdon Manor and Trading Standards car boot operation

Just to add on a little extra activity, Aylesbury Vale officers extended their 100 days of action activity over the weekend.

The team attended the Cox and Robinson agricultural merchants in Buckingham and marked 35 pieces of tack with security technology.

The Emergency Services Open Day at Waddesdon Manor brought the TVP horses, dogs, Roads Policing, forensic collision investigation, Ambulance service and Fire and Rescue Service all together for a family fun day.

Earlier in the day the team joined up with Trading Standards and visited the car boot sale in Finmere, Buckingham Market, the Church Fair in Buckingham and Padbury fair. Trading Standards will often visit markets and car boots to check for counterfeit goods such as pirated DVDs and computer games but also to check nobody is selling things they shouldn’t have like illegal weapons. Although there were no major issues at any of the events, Trading Standards checked lots of property!



Aylesbury Vale’s numbers for their week of activity are as follows:

·         8 arrests made

·         1600 addresses visited

·         Over 1900 hours of police officer and PCSO time spent on rural crime policing activity

·         717 people signed up to Thames Valley Alerts / Country Watch alerts

·         8 appointments made to fit CESAR technology to agricultural machinery

·         37 items of tack marked

·         89 farms visited for security surveys

·         2 schools attended for wildlife talks

·         3 ANPR operations with 5446 reads, 76 vehicles of interest stopped and dealt with, 5 seizures for no insurance and 2 arrests

·         18 heritage sites and crime reduction advice given to repeat victims

And a big helping hand from AVDC, Community Safety Partnership, TVP Crime Prevention and Reduction Advisor, TVP Volunteers, Special Constables, Mounted and Dog Sections and Roads Policing!



Patrolling at night