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Hello and welcome to St Helier Community Safe I would firstly like to wish everybody a happy new year from the St helier Team The Teams Priorities as set by the ward panel are 1. Burglary 2. Speeding/Road safety 3.Anti social behaviour The St Helier Team are continue to conduct burglary patrols in areas that have been affected, we have been conducting 'home security reviews' where premises are checked from the outside to see if there are any obvious security issues i.e. open shed doors or side doors or windows open that could be an easy target for the opportunist thief. It is very important to remember to ensure that all sheds are secure as in the tools are being taken from them to force access to houses, even if locked an extra padlock serves as a good deterrent. This all the more important if your garden can be seen from an alleyway or road. On 25th January 2010 between 1430hrs-2100hrs we are holding a property marking day at our Green Lane Police Office, if you bring any hand held devices, mobile phones, sat nav's cameras, mp3 players, games consoles etc we will property mark them. If you are unable to attend but would like us to attend your home to do this or offer crime prevention advice please contact us on our number below or email. The St Helier Team work very closely with partner agencies, sharing information and pooling resources. We recently conducted an early morning operation with the benefits agency who were investigating fraudulent claims. A woman in her 30's was arrested on suspicion of fraud, documentation seized and she was taken to Wimbledon Police Station and interviewed regarding the allegations. She is currently on bail whilst enquiries are ongoing. January 2010 DRIVE OUT VEHICLE CRIME In an effort to combat vehicle crime, Merton Borough Police in conjunction with Safer Merton are launching a ‘Drive Out Vehicle Crime’ initiative which will include a number of partnership interventions throughout the year, the first of which is to provide a property marking service for those living within the Borough that may well have received property such as sat navs that may well be used and left in vehicles. Inspector Jim COOK from Merton Police says, “Vehicle crime is the one of the highest crime types in the Borough and a number of Safer Neighbourhood Teams have had vehicle crime reduction chosen by their ward Panels to work. We will be looking to raise the public’s awareness and offering advice on how they can help us reduce the incidence of vehicle crime. Over the coming weeks and months Merton Police will be carrying out a number of proactive operations against those involved in vehicle crime. Already the Safer Neighbourhood Teams conduct a large number of Automatic Number Plate Operations and will continue these with both uniform and plain clothes patrols in areas where vehicle crime is most prevalent. I would urge those living in Merton to contact their local Safer Neighbourhood Team and sign up to Community Safe to receive up to date news of what their local Safer Neighbourhood Team is up to. This is a free system and by joining it you can find out about crime alerts and what the Police are doing in your local area. You can join by either logging onto WWW.Communitysafe.gov.uk or by contacting your local Safer Neighbourhood Team direct”. We take this opportunity to remind you all to: Ensure cars are locked – this might seem simple but a high percentage of cars are left unlocked in Merton. Don’t leave anything on view – you may know your jacket is empty but an opportunist thief doesn’t. Take your sat nav out of your vehicle and clean the suction mark off the windscreen – thieves will smash your window just to check the glove box. For any further information please contact your local Safer Neighbourhood Team via the main Met Police website by telephone or by e-mail. We continue to identify Vulnerable Vehicles. Where we see property on display in cars/vans we contact the owners to point this out and give crime prevention advice, the number of vehicles we are seeing with property in has reduced but we still need to work on ensuring that vehicles on the ward are not an easy target. We have identified nearly 400 vehicles so far. Bring any valuable items from your vehicles to our property marking day. We will also have tamper resistant number plate screws for you to use on your vehicles. If you see anything suspicious or have any information regarding criminal activity in our area call our ward mobile on 0208 649 3575 or email us at MertonStHelier.snt@met.police.uk In an emergency dial 999 St Helier Safer Neighbourhood Team.....