WELCOME TO THE NOVEMBER
EDITION
REPORTED INCIDENTS DURING THE LAST
MONTH
17/10/2015 - 16/11/2015
44150367235 - SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT: 22/10/2015: A male was attempting to sell
pressure washers in the Freshwater area. The vehicle was a blue Toyota van and it
had an Irish registration plate.
44150367272 – SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT: 22/10/2015: Same as above, same
circumstances. Trading standards have been notified about the incidents.
44150369792 – THEFT: 24/10/2015: Unknown person/s have taken a Tohatsu
outboard motor from a boat which was moored in Yarmouth.
44150378391 –THEFT: 31/10/2015: Unknown person/s have taken a Tohatsu
outboard motor from a yacht in the Yarmouth area.
44150379605 – SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: 01/11/2015: Two males were seen sitting in
a parked car on a private road near to a farm in the Whitwell area. When the males
were confronted they stated that they were after field mushrooms. The informant
thought that the males were acting suspiciously. Unfortunately no further details of
available.
44150389450 – THEFT: 09/11/2015: 10 ducks have been taken from a private
property in the Godshill area. At this time it is not known who is responsible.
44150394761 – SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT: 13/11/2015: A male has visited a property
in the Arreton area and tried to sell items to the occupant. Items included, generators,
pressure washers, pots, pans and knives. The male was driving a silver Toyota Land
Cruiser. A similar event occurred in the Newport area. Police units were deployed but
the vehicle was not located. At this time it is not known if the items were legit or not.
44150394932 – BURGLARY: 13/11/2015: Two males were seen removing property
from a vacant dwelling in the Cranmore area. The males were seen and reported by a
neighbour. These two males were located by Police units and have been arrested –
the incident is still under investigation.
44150396345 – THEFT OF VEHICLE: 14/11/2015: Unknown person/s have taken a
quad bike from a garden in the Yafford area.
44150397133 – THEFT: 15/11/2015: Unknown person/s have entered a store in the
Yafford area and stolen three spear guns.
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Lights on advice
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Use timer switches (available from most D.I.Y stores) to switch on lights,
radios while you are away from the home to make it look and sound
occupied.
Ensure you shut and lock windows and doors when you return home and
settle down for the evening.
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Ensure you have used padlocks on the side gates to deny access to the
rear of the property.
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Ensure your outside lighting is in working order (consider low level
ambient light on a dusk to dawn sensor) this will activate even when you
are not at home.
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After the summer, secure your garden tools and garden equipment in a
locked and alarmed shed or garage for the winter so that they cannot be
used to gain entry to your home.
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Property mark belongings with your house number and postcode, keep a
list of any makes, models and serial numbers. Take photos of jewellery.
Register your items for free at www.immobilise.com. Using this service will
assist the police in returning property to the rightful owner should it be
stolen.
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This is a good time to address your security, fit extra door and window
locks. If you are feeling vulnerable or are elderly, ask for a free home safety
and security survey by the Bobby Trust (see link) or call 0300 777 0157 for
an appointment
THINK! Advice
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The best drivers read the road ahead and anticipate potential hazards. Look out for upcoming
bends, hidden dips, blind summits and concealed entrances.
Country roads often have sharp bends. To stay in control and give yourself time to react to
unexpected hazards, brake before the bend, not in it.
Overgrown verges, bushes and trees on country roads can block your view and potentially
obscure an oncoming hazard.
Always drive at a speed which will allow you to stop in the distance you can see to be clear
(double that on a single track road).
Allow more time to stop on wet or slippy surfaces.
The speed limit is a limit not a target. The national speed limit on single carriage roads is
60mph, but there will be times you need to drive under that in order to drive correctly for the
conditions. In fact most people do on these roads – the average free flow speed is 48mph.
If you get stuck behind a slow moving vehicle be patient. Dips in roads, bends and other
junctions joining your road often hide oncoming vehicles, so unless it's absolutely essential,
don't overtake.
If passing more vulnerable road users such as horse riders, cyclists and walkers, pass wide
and slow.
Even if you’re familiar with a country road, never take it for granted as the conditions can be
different every time.
Shooting Season Dates
In order to prevent unnecessary calls to the Police Control
Room and the subsequent attendance of our Island Firearms
Support Unit, we kindly ask for anyone involved with an
organised shoot to call 101 and notify us when a shoot will be
taking place. This way it will save our call centre from
having to deploy Police units to any shooting activities. This
has continued to happen on the Island, despite our yearly
requests for information. For a vast majority of incidents we
find everything is in order, but when a report is made we
will always send officers to check and verify the nature of
the reports thereby tying up police officers time. Thank you.
EQUINE & COUNTRY WATCH
BEAT SURGERY
2ND WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH
12.00 TO 13.00
MOLE VALLEY COUNTRY STORE
(Formally known as SCATS)
If you have and equine issues or concerns come in for
a chat and we will try to help.
We can also offer tack marking (only leather tack)
We can take you details and come to your yard or
home to do the tack marking.
ISLE OF WIGHT COUNCIL RIGHTS OF WAY TEAM
If you have any burning questions you would like to ask the Rights of
Way team you can email them to: rightsofway@iow.gov.uk or give them a call
on 01983 821000.
If you are a landowner with a closed byway, the Rights of Way team
are asking that if you find their signs damaged or missing please contact
them A.S.A.P. so they can replace them. The police can’t enforce it unless
the signs are in place.
REMINDER:
If you need to report a crime, please ring 101 for all nonemergency calls or 999 for all emergency calls. Please do not
contact our individual mobiles or email us if you are reporting
a crime this is in case we are off duty or unable to answer your
call or reply to your email. We are happy to take routine calls
and enquiries by mobile phone.
ARE YOUR COUNTRY WATCH SIGNS LOOKING A LITTLE
WORSE FOR WEAR?
Please contact us if you are in need of any more Country Watch signs to
replace any worn out ones. Our contact details are available on the last page of
this newsletter.
GUIDANCE ON CRIMINAL LAW
Wondering what is legal and what is illegal? You can always check on
www.askthe.police.uk. A great website to check on different topics, i.e. wild
animals, speeding, anti social behaviour etc.. Find answers to lots of questions!
CRIME PREVENTION
As a result from the national Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) Rural Crime Seminar
held last year we now have purchased a variety of security products from Solon Security. Solon
Security are a Secured by Design Award Company specialising in security products such as
alarms, padlocks, deterrent signs, door locks etc. These products are ready to be sold to our
Country Watch members at cost price (i.e. at the price we have paid) and all money raised will
then go back into purchasing more equipment for use by the rural community.
If anyone is looking for a specific type of security product please get in touch and we will
try and point you in the right direction.
Here are the products we have available at this time:
CREMARK KIT:
£12.00
CREMARK KITS – A system which permanently marks property, such as, farm equipment, garden
tools, hand tools, power tools, lawn mowers and many other items.
PERMANENT UV PEN: £1.00
4MM PERMANENT UV PEN – Permanently marks property with a clear UV ink making valuables
easy to identify under a UV light if stolen.
PROPERTY MARKING KIT: £ 1.00
PROPERTY MARKING KIT – This kit provides everything required to mark and log your
property. The kit includes, a UV marker pen, a set of laminate labels, a set of highly durable
warning stickers and instructions, such as laptops, jewellery, iPods, mobile phones, tools and
many other items.
WARNING SIGNS: 50p
WARNING SIGNS – Stickers are a great way to support crime prevention, simple warning signs
can, and on their own be enough to deter opportunist thieves.
PADLOCK ALARM: £ 10.00
PADLOCK ALARM – A burglary deterrent padlock that is alarmed with a powerful 110dBs siren.
Features include shock and movement sensor, keyed operation, battery powered (batteries
included) and weather resistant body.
PACK OF 2 x WARNING SIGNS, UV MARKER PEN AND PROPERTY
MARKING KIT FOR: £ 2.50
We will have the items available to purchase at the shows we attend or please feel free to
contact us and we can arrange to bring the items to you. Please email us to discuss the items
available at countrywatch@hampshire.pnn.police.uk, and mark in the subject line IOW, or
contact any of the team members on the below numbers.
TEAM CONTACT DETAILS:
ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTRY WATCH TEAM
PC 22839 TIM CAMPANY:
PCSO 13341 JUSTIN KEEFE:
PS 24205 MARK LYTH:
PCSO 13231 CAT QUINN:
07901102393
07901102302
07901102396
07901102366
EQUINE LIASION OFFICER:
PCSO 13129 KAREN ALLEN:
07901102376
Email: countrywatch@hampshire.pnn.police.uk
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