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Dear residents, CRIME FIGURES We've had 6 residential burglaries, with 1 attempt (3 commercial burglaries) since the 25th July. Other figures for this period are: Robberies: 2 Assault: 12 Domestic incidents where no offences alleged or suspected: 7 Public Order Offences: 4 Racially aggravated Public Order Offences: 1 Theft of motorvehicles: 6 Theft from motorvehicle: 3 Theft of pedal cycle: 2 Shoplifting: 8 Other theft: 1 Possession of Cannabis: 2 Cannabis Factory: 0 Possession of Coccaine: 0 Arson: 0 Criminal Damage: 7 Sexual Offence: 1 Burglaries seem to have gone up slightly, but robberies reduced. Theft of motorvehicles has climbed (mainly motorcycles / scooters) so please make sure your vehicles are secure. Theft from motorvehicles has reduced. Flytipping is still on the up. Our hotspot area at the moment is the alleyway between the Tooting end of Acre and Boundary Road. One resident in Acre Road has been issued an on-the-spot Police fine of £50 for dumping wood in the alley, whilst the details of another Acre Road resident has been passed to Merton Borough Council for enforcement as their details were found in bags of rubbish. Operation Lockdown, a three month burglary initiative which started last month has been successful in reducing overall residential burglaries. Meet the Street is a new initiative whereby over the next few years, your Safer Neighbourhoods Team will knock on every door on the ward and introduce themselves. This will give you the opportunity to air any issues you have. You will also be given a leaflet with the Teams contact details, as well as a list of other useful contacts. Colliers Wood are intending to start this next week. ****************************************************** A Message from Detective Inspector Grahame Horwood Merton Police ****************************************************** During the course of our duties Police regularly recover property that we are unable to identify the owner for. Even though we strongly suspect this property is stolen, without being able to identify the owner police are unable to prosecute the offenders or return the property to the rightful owners. Immobilize is the world's largest FREE register of possession ownership details and forms a very effective tool in helping to reduce crime and repatriate recovered personal property to its rightful owners. Immobilize can be used by members of the public and businesses to register their valued possessions or company assets, and exclusive to Immobilize all account holders registered items and ownership details are viewable on the Police national property database. This online checking service is used by all UK Police forces to trace owners of lost and stolen property. In addition Immobilize is checked daily by a huge range of recovery agencies and lost property offices including the Transport for London Lost Property Office. I have attached the Immobilize web-site so that you can have a look for yourself, hopefully register, and record details of your property. Then if your property is lost or stolen, and comes into our possession, we can return it to you. http://www.immobilise.com/index.php As always, your Safer Neighbourhoods Team patrol on foot, pedal cycle and motorcycle. Please feel free to stop and speak to them concerning any issues. Ps 91VW Tony Richardson Colliers Wood Safer Neighbourhoods Team Collierswood@met.police.uk 0208 7212743