DAY 54: Chiltern and South Bucks teams continue crime prevention quest!

Here is the day in pictures...

PCSO Matt Sansom putting up Country Watch signs at Haywill Farm, Bellingdon

PCSO Matt Sansom horse whispering!

CRE (Crime Reduction Enterprise) products are used to deter thieves and prevent property from being stolen using the overt property marking technique.

The CRE-Mark silver marker is used to write your postcode and house number of first two letters of your house name in a clear and obvious place on your property. The marker is permanent, visible to would be thieves and if your property does happen to get stolen, the items are easily traceable back to the rightful owners.

You can also register property on the nation database Immobilise. This is a national database used by police forces in the UK when stolen property is found to try and locate the rightful owner. If your property is registered on the site and happens to get stolen, there is more chance of having the property returned to you if it is either security marked or registered!

Other ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers) approved suppliers of forensic property marking equipment are:

Smartwater

Redweb

SelectaMark (supplier of SelectaDNA)

Crime prevention advice for securing your tools:

• Lock tools away in secure building or part of building when not in use
• Invest in a secure storage tool box
• Consider protecting the building where tools are kept with an alarm
• Tools should be uniquely marked, photographed and recorded, include your postcode and property name or number.
• Consider ‘Post coding’ and marking tools and equipment using the premises postcode and house number or first three letters of the property name
• Use property marking to uniquely mark tools. Popular options include overt visible permanent marking (painting or CRE-mark), or UV marking and DNA products.

PC Adam Thomas CRE-marking tools

 

 

 

DAY 53: Neighbourhood teams across Chiltern and South Bucks visit repeat victims of rural crime (and Olympic gold medallist horse!)

Neighbourhood teams across the Chiltern and South Bucks LPA will be attending identified rural locations for crime reduction activity by appointment. The locations identified have historically been subject to crime.

Over five days the teams are aiming to visit 30 premises and will:

• Conduct a crime reduction survey of home and business premises and offer advice about how to better protect land and property
• Discuss any crime concerns, particularly anything which is happening locally
• Have property, horse tack and small machinery security marked
• Give advice on security marking larger items like plant and tractors
• Sign people up to the Country Watch Alerts messaging system to receive up to date news, appeals and crime reduction advice for the local area.

 Here is what the team got up to on Monday (13/1):

PCSO Vicky Kiffin property marking at Richings Park Golf Club in Iver

Example of tack marking

Sgt Lucy Price with an Olympic Gold medalist horse at the Riding School for the Disabled in Stoke Poges

DAYS 51 & 52: Stolen property seized during proactive burglary patrols in Farnham Common

Officers in the Chiltern and South Bucks area continued with their proactive burglary patrols last Thursday and Friday (9-10/1) in rural areas which have previously been targeted by offenders looking to steal tools and machinery.

On Friday (10/1) the officers received some intelligence that a log splitter stolen from a yard in Farnham Common in December was being advertised on eBay as for sale and being stored at a lock-up.

After obtaining and executing a warrant at the lock-up, a digger, which was believed to have been stolen in a separate offence was found and seized.

The log splitter and a power washer believed to have also been stolen were later recovered by officers.

To prevent your tools and equipment being stolen, you could consider security marking. Forensic DNA markers such as CRE products, either liquid, gel or UV pens can be used to mark your property or engrave or permanently label your valuable property with your postcode.

Information about how property marking can protect your equipment can be found on the Thames Valley Police website.

DAYS 49 & 50: Burglary hotspot patrols result in three arrests in Iver, South Bucks

Neighbourhood teams in Chiltern and South Bucks have been patrolling the south eastern corner of the local policing area to tackle burglaries, which have previously increased at this time of year. The patrols spanned four days last week (7-10/1).

After receiving intelligence as a result of a burglary which occurred last Wednesday (8/1), a suspicious vehicle was located by officers in Pinewood Green the following evening (9/1). After a pursuit, the car was pulled over in Seven Hills Road, Iver and searched. A large amount of herbal cannabis was found.

Three men were subsequently arrested on suspicion of burglary and possession with intent to supply. The men, aged 24 and 25, both from Slough, and a 26-year-old from Iver have all been bailed until 7 February.

Inspt Lucy Price said: “We identified a burglary non-dwelling spike happening in the first few weeks of January. Although there is no distinct hotspot area, offences have been found to occur across Iver, Iver Heath, Denham, Fulmer and Stoke Poges and there was a noticeable trend towards rural or remote locations with farms, stables and lock-ups being targeted for saddles, machinery, tools, hay and catalytic converters.

“We have been working with the Metropolitan Police in our ANPR operations so both forces can cover the cross-border areas which we believe make quick escape routes for offenders.”

Information about keeping your outbuildings and lock-ups safe can be found on the Country Watch pages of the Thames Valley Police website.