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Judy Venables has taken over Keith Puttock’s role as NHW coordinator for Quarley.

Neighbourhood Watch News

Risks of Crime

A glance back at the crimes reported for the Four Parishes over the last 12 months shows over 25 criminal incidents (non-dwelling and dwelling burglaries, other thefts and criminal damage) and 10 suspicious sightings. Certainly these are not statistics to suggest that household vigilance can be relaxed.

It is also very clear that the public is subject to increasing numbers of clever and plausible scams. It would be impractical and tedious to send out (and for you to receive) alerts about each type of incident we hear about – but their variety and frequency do underline the need to remain alert on this front also and to be suspicious of any unsolicited, unexpected or unusual incident.

Our Police Team

We still await the replacement for PC Roger Kitson. In the meantime our PCSO David Trowbridge provides cover as before. We met our new Police Sergeant, Russ Hodges, a few days ago and were pleased that he will support our previous practice of close and informal contact with our beat PC (when he arrives!). In particular Sgt Hodges emphasised that we should not assume that small unusual or suspicious incidents would not be worthwhile reporting to the police (via the 101 non-emergency number) because we can’t know how useful such information might be as part of their greater information jigsaw.

Postscript for Amport Residents

At last year’s Amport Parish Council AGM I gave notice of my wish to be “pensioned off” as Village NHW Coordinator after 2012/13. It is very pleasing to be able to report that we have a volunteer to take over. Jo Stewart has recently moved into the village with husband Fergus and baby Seb. Being unfamiliar with Amport will represent an initial difficulty but, as I found in 1997, this is not insuperable. Her contact details are shown on the front page of this magazine.

Finally I would like to express my gratitude for all the help and support that I have received over the last 7 years from the Amport NHW team, Amport residents, the other Four Parishes Coordinators, and our local PC and PCSO, and to wish Jo Stewart good luck, and a light workload!
Brian Nolan