Beat Report November 2016

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Last Updated on Thursday, 15 December 2016 08:10

Published on Thursday, 15 December 2016 08:05

Written by Parish Clerk

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Bramley and Sherfield (BL02)

Burglaries:

Burglaries are a Local Beat Priority across the whole of Basingstoke. 5 reported burglaries reported over this month. Unfortunately this is an increase of 5 over the course of a month. Two of these were burglary to a dwelling and three were non dwelling burglaries. One of these burglaries, the offender(s) forced entry through the rear patio door but were disturbed by an alarm sounding which caused them to run off from the scene without stealing anything. This goes to show the importance of crime prevention and the role it plays in protecting your property and valuables. Please ensure that your doors and windows are locked when you are leaving your property unattended. If you think “how secure is my home?” and “have I done as much as reasonably possible to ensure I have kept my property safe?” on a regular basis and act on anything you pick up then naturally you will lower your risk of being a victim.

Please mark your valuables in some way with your post code or take a picture of them and any distinguishing marks just in case they are recovered by Police, then we will be able to return them to you.

Anti Social Behaviour:

There have been 7 reports of ASB this month. That is an increase of 1 reported incident over the last month.

I have no reports of youths using catapults around Bramley. If we get no reports, I do not see a problem and therefore cannot try and fix said problem.

If you suffer from ASB and you are a tenant of social housing then you will need to report these incidents to your housing officer before you contact Police. If the offender is also in social housing accommodation then your housing association will have more powers to tackle it than we do. If your housing officer believes Police intervention will help then they will contact us.

I would like to encourage all residents to report any incidents of anti social behaviour to us on 101, or if you are a resident of social housing and your issues are with a neighbour also living in social housing accommodation, please report any incidents to your local housing officer, if the problem then persists then your Housing Officer will contact me. Please do report ASB because if it doesn’t get reported then I will not know that it’s happening and therefore I will not be able to focus my patrol time efficiently.

Suspicious Incidents:

There have also been 6 suspicious vehicle/ person reports.

I suspect that a lot of suspicious incidents don’t get reported because people don’t understand what we do with such reports so I will attempt to explain. When someone rings us via 101 or 999 our call takers will grade the report according to risk, these grades range from emergency response to no response at all. A suspicious incident reported at the time of it happening will normally warrant a quick response as most reports are of this nature where they will not be around for long (for example a suspicious person is likely to move on, a vehicle will drive away and noises might stop.) If police attend and speak to anyone reported to be acting suspiciously then they could get searched for items they shouldn’t have, that could lead to an arrest or good intelligence that we wouldn’t have had if no one called us. Also if the report is about a vehicle and we are not able to stop it then a marker could be placed on the vehicle in question for our attention explaining that this vehicle was seen in strange circumstances and therefore we are required to stop that vehicle and obtain occupants details. At the very minimum, if we are provided with a registration number then we will attend the home address of the registered owner and ask them why their vehicle was there, again depending on their answer depends on how we progress.

There have been cases in the past where someone has reported vehicles/ people acting in a suspicious manner and upon police arrival we have disturbed a burglary in progress and arrested the offenders. Recently, I was on patrol with a colleague and I noticed a white sports car parked in the entrance of a by-way. This looked out of place therefore we decided to carry out a vehicle check which didn’t reveal anything helpful. Due to the circumstances that were known to me at the time, I requested that a colleague call on the address of the registered owner to ask why their vehicle was parked there and when they arrived at the address it became apparent that the house had recently been burgled and the vehicle stolen from the driveway, it was so recent that the aggrieved party didn’t know it had even happened. The vehicle was returned to the owner and the property secured to prevent any further loss, this wouldn’t have been achieved if I did not act on something that looked out of place.

Just because something gets reported as suspicious it doesn’t mean anything bad is actually happening or likely to happen, it’s just something that seems odd for the area, we would rather receive the call and it turn out to be nothing to worry about than not receive a call and it turn out to be something serious.

If you see anything you consider being suspicious please call us on 101 to report it. If there are any units free at the time of the call, they will attend. I am impressed of the detail people giving to us. The majority of the suspicious vehicles that have been called in to us have been with a full registration! It helps us out a lot when we have this line of enquiry as we can normally locate the owner and ask them what they were doing.

Monthly Crime Stats 

Emergency.

As always, please can I ask all residents to report any suspicious persons, vehicles or incidents using the 101 telephone number; please only ring 999 if it is a genuine emergency. An easy guide on which number to use is this:

Is the incident in progress and is there a risk of injury or damage to property? – 999
Has the incident already happened and there is no longer any risk? – 101
Anything else we need to know about? – 101

Many thanks,
PCSO 15740 Nathan Johnson