2008 – LETS MAKE THIS THE YEAR WE MAKE THINGS DIFFICULT FOR THIEVES.

One of the more frustrating elements of being a Police Officer is visiting victims of crime. Especially people who have been burgled. I really don’t like to see people upset or annoyed. It makes me angry.

Why should we put up with some sweaty ne’er do well rifling through our possessions and helping themselves as if it was open house. How dare they!

Who the hell do they think they are? What right do they have? No right at all, that’s what.

Thankfully we don’t have very many houses broken into in this area, but it does still happen.

We do suffer from cars being broken into and sheds being screwed for power tools and lawnmowers.

What makes it all the more frustrating for me and my chums here at the station is that sometimes we do tend to make it too easy for them. With just a little bit of thought we and by ‘we’ I mean ‘you’ can make it hard for thieves. If they are going to steal your kit let’s make it hard for them.

For starters let’s not go around leaving possessions in our cars. As I have publiscised in this bulletin Mrs. S was kind enough to buy me an all singing all dancing satellite navigation system. I have used it in the car and it’s great, I love it. It has buttons, colours, it makes noises, and a lady speaks to me! How could I have survived this long without it? I just don’t know.

I tell you one thing though, I don’t leave it in the car for a minute, not anywhere, not under any circumstances, no sir not me, that little baby will still be mine next Christmas. It will not be used to fuel some drug addiction.

The same goes for my mobile phone, never gets left anywhere, in my pocket at all times. Test me, go on do it.

How about my wallet, which contains lots of goodies that any self respecting thief would die for. Never left anywhere. Short of taking it into bed with me that little sucker stays by me at all times. So there is a start for you. For wallet substitute handbag for the ladies and bobs your uncle we look after those three things properly and we cut crime and make the thieves work harder.

If they have to work too hard they might go away. Let’s give it a go. Are you in?

Faith in human nature restored due to act of honesty in Tisbury. Thank you.

On the 11th of January a very nice lady who just happened to have bought me a shiny new Sat Nav system for Christmas went shopping in Tisbury.

She used the cash point outside the Co-op and then wandered off to get some sausages.

Once in the butchers she realised that she had left her money (and mine) hanging out of the cash point machine. 

A quick sprint across the road but the money had gone. 

The now somewhat crestfallen lady dragged herself into the Co-Op to enquire if there was any hope that the money may have been retained by the machine.

She was however greeted by the news that some kind soul had taken the money from the cash point and handed it in to the Co-Op. With the money safely pocketed she was able to bag those sausages. Very nice they were too!

May I take the opportunity to thank the honest and kind person for handing the money in, you are a credit to yourself and your family and I salute you.

REPORTED CRIME IN DECEMBER 2007.

TISBURY BEAT
Community Beat Manager: PC Mark Steele

4^thPurse stolen from a handbag in an office at Tollard Royal by man who distracted the owner by asking for some petrol.

5^th Man arrested in Tisbury following an alleged assault on his ex partner.

7^th 12 year old boy from Hindon cautioned for stealing money.

7^th Thief broke into a shed in Hatch and stole a chainsaw from within.

8^th Man arrested in Donhead St Mary on suspicion of assaulting his ex girlfriend.

8^th 22yr old woman arrested for assaulting a 32yr old woman in Tisbury High Street.

9^th Car in Tisbury deliberately scratched by the owners ex partner.

10^th and 13^th Thieves entered a yard at Swallowcliffe and caused damage on the premises as they searched for something to steal.

12^th Car deliberately scratched by sharp implement when parked outside a house in Ludwell.

12^th Bus stolen overnight from a yard at Swallowcliffe, later found in abandoned in Shaftesbury.

13^th Car rear window broken in Tisbury possibly by a stone.

13^th Car stolen from business premises at Sutton Mandeville.

13^th Man arrested in Donhead St Mary having assaulted his ex partner’s new partner.

14^th Wallet stolen from insecure office in Fonthill Gifford overnight.

14^th Rottweiler dog stolen from rear garden of house in Tisbury.

14^th Car stolen from Fonthill Bishop when left unattended due to loading. Later found abandoned in Salisbury.

20^th Tank of petrol siphoned from a car parked at Swallowcliffe.

22^nd House window smashed in Tisbury, believed to be by a thrown stone.

24^th Car damaged deliberately whilst parked at a garage on the A30.

27^th Car broken into in Berwick St John, nothing stolen.

28^th Car stole from address in Fovant. The car was stopped a week later in Salisbury but the driver ran off and escaped.