Metal Theft

7/9 Copper piping stolen from houses at Somerby Rd, Scunthorpe.

5/9 Lead flashing stolen from Killingholme Primary School.

Number Plates

28/8 A number of registration plates have been stolen from parked cars in Scunthorpe. Kingsway, Devonshire Rd and Salisbury Close being the most recent. Please report anyone acting suspiciously near parked cars straight away to Police on 0845 60 60 222.

Found Motorcycling Gear

The below pictured motorcycling gear has been found at Farthing Ave, Scunthorpe on 14/8 and the owner has not claimed the items.

If you know the owner of the articles please ask them to contact The Scunthorpe Police Property Office on 01724 274133 during office hours. Please quote reference number B1/F602 when making an enquiry.

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Metal thefts

14/8. 3 air conditioning units weighing about half a ton were stolen from Kirton Concrete Services, East Cross St, Kirton

15/8. Barnetby Rd. Lead flashing stolen

15/8. Large amount of cable and fuses stolen from Bloom Lane, Normanby Business Park

Metal thefts

Theft of lead continues in Scunthorpe with several houses at St Pauls Rd being attacked. Also St Bernadettes Presbytery at Ashby Rd and St Peters Church Old School Lane, Bottesford.

Three people have been arrested for theft of metal at Parkinson Ave.

Purse Theft

At about 1pm on 13/8 a woman was shopping at Marks and Spencers, High St Scunthorpe with her handbag containing her purse over her shoulder. She came to pay for items and found her purse had been stolen.

Please take extra care by using wrap over handbags and carrying them to prevent items being stolen from behind.

Protecting Jewellery

Please check out the safety advice/home page for tips on photographing jewellery or any other valuables to help with investigation and insurance claim in the event of a theft.

Please feel free to contact safelinks if you have additions on the advice.

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Breach of Anti Social Behaviour Injunction

Please click on link from Scunthorpe Telegraph

Scunthorpe Telegraph page

Metal Thefts

PC Jamie Allen, the Scunthorpe Police crime reduction officer, issues an advice document to stem the recent increase in thefts of metal due to sharp increase in  value and its availability.

The nine page paper is geared to commercial interests but some parts of the information are valuable to house residents.

The document can be found by clicking on safety advice and then general or from the link below

Metal theft prevention

Metal thieves are being arrested but others are continuing to steal.

Please keep an eye out for thieves stealing metal and report anyone acting suspiciously straight away to Police on 0845 60 60 222

If you have information about culprits please contact safelinks. If you need to be anonymous please call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

PC Allen

18/6. Lead flashing thefts continue with a theft in the early hours at Radstock Court, Seaton Rd, Scunthorpe.

Reducing Crime and Anti Social Behaviour in Your Area.

Safelinks wants to further reduce crime and anti-social behaviour in this area brought about by the public and police.

There is less crime and bad behaviour in areas where there is an active neighbourhood watch in place. The reason is that the police are only as effective as the quality of information given to the police by the public. In other words grouping together protects your home and  outnumbers criminals.

Ken Bates is an experienced neighbourhood watch group development officer and is there to help you to set up a group to protect your street.  You then gain the strength of The Humberside Association of Neighbourhood Watch Groups.

Setting up is not difficult and does not involve a great lot of time to function. As with all these things the success depends on people interested in making their area much safer. I think that person is you.

It's about grouping together and caring without interfering. Ken can help you get the balance right.

There is a clear difference between a general moan and groan about the state of things and reporting a suspicious incident or the activities of a criminal. The latter puts criminals in a position of disadvantage.

For years the best successes by the Police have been the public calling about a suspicious incident, the Police responding to the incident and arresting the criminal or stopping the incident.

The Police are getting better so we, the public, need to get better too.

If you are interested in helping to start a neighbourhood watch group please call safelinks on admin@safelinks.info and we will ask Ken to call.

Smartwater - Arrives in the Scunthorpe Area

The arrival of Smartwater to the Scunthorpe area has been announced.

Smartwater is a colourless liquid made up of a number of elements. The makeup of the elements is unique to each issue so that when it is found it can be traced back to the people to whom it was issued.

It is used in two distinct ways.

Firstly, it is used as a spray in buildings or cars and when activated by an intruder the liquid is sprayed on the person. Criminals find the material impossible to remove. Smartwater has been picked up from items eighteen months after being sprayed.

Secondly, it is painted on property as a property marking method.

People arrested by the Police at Scunthorpe walk through an ultra violet light system to check for smartwater. When properties are searched using a search warrant portable units are used to identify Smartwater on property and clothing. When people are challenged by the Police in the street, the property they are carrying is checked for Smartwater. Scrap metal dealers, second hand shops, car boot sales and other places are being visited by the Police.

C/Supt Stuart Donald is confident that, although reports of burglary are already decreasing, the use of Smartwater will bring significant reductions in burglary and car crime in this area and an increase in detection of these offences. It will deter and detect these crimes.

Geoff Knupfer, from the Smartwater organisation, explained the material and its use in other areas including North East Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. An officer from South Yorks Police gave information about recent successes in the reduction and detection of burglary and car crime.

The property marking kits will be distributed initially in crime hotspot areas.

In addition to marking items such as CD players, sat navs, TVs, jewellery items such as lead flashing or property owned by businesses can be marked. The opportunities are endless and the benefits substantial.

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Geoff Knupfer, C/I Steve Graham, C/Supt Stuart Donald and Supt David Hilditch prior to the launch.

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Splashes of Smartwater on jacket sprayed 18mths ago.

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Shed/Garage Alarms

The Humberside Association of Neighbourhood Watch Groups (HANWaG) has sold security items to it's members for a number of years.  Because of the large number of shed and garage burglaries taking place at the moment HANWaG want to help non members too.

Shed /garage alarms are available, at reasonable cost, in keypad or keyfob versions.

The difference is that the key pad version is activated by pressing your self selected 4 figure code. You simply remember the code. With the keyfob the alarm it is armed by means of the fob. You need the fob with you of course.

The alarms are priced at Keypad £10.99 + p&p and the keyfob at £12.99 + p&p.

To order please email admin@hanwag.org.uk   with your name and postal address

Overview

The Intruder Alarms are the loudest, the best made, the most versatile and have the longest battery life of any similar product in the UK. The innovation of adding a magnetic contact trigger with two metres of cable has doubled the protection that these alarms can give.

Suitable for homes, sheds, garages, caravans and general purpose security. This new range of alarms is manufactured to ISO9001, and now incorporates a magnetic contact option giving greater versatility and breadth of application.

The Keypad/Key Fob PIR Alarm can be used either as a traditional alarm or as a door entry chime detector. The mounting bracket is swivel connected to the alarm body, thus allowing complete control of the area to be covered.

The Keypad version operates via a four digit code. The Key Fob version allows a unique code setting to be learnt which means that a single key fob can control a number of units and additional key fobs can be added to control the same alarm.

* Keypad or Key Fob controlled
* PIR and Magnetic Contact activated
* Entry/exit delay
* Full operating instructions included
* All fixings supplied
* 130+ dBs
* 1 year warranty
* Batteries included

                    Keypad                                                                    Keyfob

Neighbourhood Enforcement Team

North Lincolnshire Council operate a neighbourhood enforcement team to control abandoned vehicles, fly-tipping, littering, dog fouling, stray dogs, graffiti fly-tipping and fly-posting in your streets.

The name of the team is StreetRight and twelve neighbourhood enforcement officers are out on patrol making North Lincolnshire a much better place in which to live, work and to enjoy yourself.

They want to work with the community to cut down on environment crime such as the above and need your help to stop the above activities by calling and letting them know who is up to this.

The contact telephone number is 01724 297000 or you can contact them via safelinks/messages/send a private message.

StreetRight – that educates and enforces the law on enviro-crime has trebled the number of on-the-spot fines in just a month - reinforcing the 'get tough' stance the council said it would take from day one.

StreetRight started on 12 December 2005. The team have now issued over 100 on-the-spot fines of £50 each. All the fines issued have been paid in full and were uncontested except for one. The person contested the matter and magistrates imposed a fine and costs of £175


As part of StreetRight’s education role, it has talked to children in schools about the importance of caring for the environment and shown them how to act responsibly and within the law.


Stephen Coulman, the StreetRight manager said, " While we make patrols in all parts of North Lincolnshire we do rely heavily on resposible people to call us and tip us off about people who are not treating our streets with respect." We do try to work with people to improve their behaviour and if that doesn't work we will prosecute. We are using covert movable cameras in areas the community have indicated are anti social behaviour or enviro crime hotspots. We are working very closely with our Police and other partners to improve the look of the place. It attracts crime if a place looks down."

abandoned vehicles,

fly-tipping,

littering,

dog fouling,

stray dogs,

graffiti

fly-tipping and

fly-posting

     

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If you have any concerns with any of these issues in your community or want to report
incidents, please contact StreetRight on 01724 297000.

Police Helicopter Unit

Following messages about the Humberside Police Helicopter Unit safelinks went across to the base at the Humberside International Airport.

The unit moved to its purpose built premises in July 2005 from its previous location at Normandy Barracks, Leconfield.

The team consists of four pilots and eight air observers working shifts. Police and Civilian staff support the fliers.

The helicopter they operate is a MD902 Explorer powered by Pratt and Whitney Canada 207E engines

The important feature of this aircraft is that it has no tail rotor and this cuts down on noise. Incidentally when out on operations at night the pilot flies as high as possible without compromising operational efficiency in order to cut down on noise disturbance to residents.

When the helicopter is out of action for any reason there is an arrangement with the West and South Yorkshire Helicopter Units to provide service.

The unit is called upon to assist with pursuits of suspects in vehicles or on foot, to search large areas for missing or wanted persons.  They also assist in the management of serious crime scences and serious road collisions.  Another service is the monitoring public order situations.  The team also make patrols as part of attending incidents.  The helicopter is ready to go at a moments notice and it's position at the airport makes it quicker to reach incidents in our area.

Last month 52 operational flights took place in NE Lincolnshire and 39 in North Lincolnshire.

Inspector Kevin Limbert and his team were extremely helpful and keen that you know as much as possible about the unit. If you have any question not answered here please contact safelinks via messages. Specific operational information is not possible

Photographs following shortly.

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Anti-Social Behaviour Team

Safer Neighbourhoods is the Crime and Disorder Partnership for North Lincolnshire and is a partnership between the emergency services, local authority, private and voluntary sector agencies that works together to reduce crime, disorder and substance misuse within the area.

Anti-social behaviour covers the whole spectrum of society and should not and will not be tolerated. Safer Neighbourhoods will do their utmost to ensure that those individuals who make the life of residents of North Lincolnshire a misery are tackled. They will strive to make these individuals curb and alter their behaviour through education and diversionary measures, and were this fails apply for anti social behaviour orders to ensure that their behaviour alters.

North Lincolnshire’s anti-social behaviour team is situated in Shelford House Scunthorpe and comprises of Ian Welch who is the co-ordinator and two assistant officers, Caroline Hudson and Craig Marriott. Co-located alongside them is Pc Bob Hazon who is the anti-social behaviour co-ordinator for Humberside Police B Division that covers the whole of North Lincolnshire.

Reports of anti- social behaviour should in the first instance be reported as follows:   

1. If it occurs in the public arena telephone Humberside Police on 0845 60 60 20

2. If it occurs on council property or council housing telephone 01724 296296

3. Environmental issues telephone 01724 297000.

If you are interested in people in your area who have been given anti social behaviour orders please go to one of the 6 area safelinks crime pages where you see a "community" tab. Click that and details of some orders are to be found there.

For any other particular order please give us a call via messages/private.

Safelinks is looking forward to working with the community on this and working with people who have orders and can show their behaviour has improved markedly.

Please call with any problems.