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Dear Surrey Heath Residents

Monday sees our Policing Your Community event go virtual. This evening event is a chance for you to hear from the Police and Crime Commissioner, Chief Constable, and their three Divisional Commanders, and to put your questions to them. 

The event will take place at 6pm on 13/01/25 and be livestreamed onto our Facebook account. People interested in attending can sign-up in advance here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/policing-your-community-online-tickets-1010609499217

Please find below details of the currently reported burglaries (or attempted burglaries) to residential properties (including shed break-ins) as well as other crime statistics over the past week.   Summary details of these are provided below.

BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY BURGLARY – 0

RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY – 4

45250002171 Crabtree Road, CAMBERLEY – entry gained via smashing glass panel on back door. Items stolen. Occurred between 06/01/25 17:30 hrs and 07/01/25 08:00hrs.

45250002254 Crabtree Road, CAMBERLEY – entry gained via smashing back door and an untidy search conducted.  not known if items stolen.  Occurred between 06/01/25 17:30 hrs and 07/01/25 08:00hrs.

45250002821 Rivermead Road, CAMBERLEY – entry gained via smashing back door. Not known if items stolen.  Occurred between 04/01/25 and 08/01/25 at 16:05hrs.

45250004123 Keswick Drive, LIGHTWATER – attempted burglary on unoccupied property via damaging front door.  Occurred between 19/10/24 00:00hrs and 11/01/25 13:00hrs. 

Some simple tips to keep your property more secure: 

Further crime prevention advice can be found at: 

Keep burglars out of your property | Police.uk (www.police.uk)

Secured by Design - Home Security

Keep it safe | Crime Prevention | Surrey Police

Theft of Motor Vehicle – 1

45250004021 Upper Gordon Road, CAMBERLEY – theft of motor vehicle (Ford Transit). Occurred between 10/01/25 18:00hrs and 11/01/25 14:00hrs.

Theft from Motor Vehicle – 2

45250001644 The Avenue, CAMBERLEY – vehicle damaged, window smashed.  Occurred 0n 06/01/25 00:15hrs and 00:57hrs.

45250004214 Garfield Road, CAMBERLEY – personal items and clothing stolen from vehicle.   Occurred on 12/01/25 between 04:03hrs and 04:30hrs.

Please do NOT leaving valuables on display and making sure vehicles are locked and secured.

Please remember to store your car keys in a Faraday or RFID Blocker pouch RFID Blockers & Faraday Pouches | Halfords UK

Faraday pouches can also be purchased through your neighbourhood watch coordinators.

Further crime prevention advice can be found at:

Car crime | Neighbourhood Watch Network (ourwatch.org.uk)

Preventing car and vehicle theft | Crime Prevention | Police.uk (www.police.uk)

Secured by Design - Vehicle Crime

Prevent theft from a vehicle | Crime Prevention | Police.uk (www.police.uk)

Secured by Design - Vans & Tool Theft

To provide a further idea of the criminal activities of the Surrey Heath Police neighbourhood and response teams in the past week, there were 124 new incidents/occurrences being investigated during this period. A summary of relevant incidents by crime type is given below. 

Antisocial Behaviour/Neighbourhood Disputes – 1

Assault on Emergency Worker - 0

Criminal Damage – 2

Dangerous Dogs – 0

Drugs – 4

Fraud - 3

Harassment – 1

Hate crime/incident – 1

Prescribed Limited Offences (drink/drug driving) - 2

Public Order – 7

Robbery - 1

Sexual offences - 3

Stalking – 1

Suspicious Incidents - 2

Please use this link to report suspicious activity Suspicious Activity Portal | Surrey Police

Theft (including shopping lifting) – 11

For prevention advice Securing your shop from shoplifters | Crime Prevention | Police.uk (www.police.uk) and Preventing stolen doorstep deliveries | Crime prevention | Police.uk (www.police.uk)

Violent Crime – 11

Cybercrime blackmail/Fraud/sextortion - 2

Do not give your bank details or transfer money online unless you have taken due diligence to ensure they are a legitimate organisation, if in doubt DO NOT send money.  Please remind your members to report to the police any sextortion and DO NOT send money to blackmailers.

For prevention advice: Advice about fraud | Surrey Police

Cyber Aware - undefined.GOV.UK (ncsc.gov.uk) and All topics - NCSC.GOV.UK

As always, the local Neighbourhood Team are keen to receive information on all crime spotted or believed to have occurred, as this can assist with ongoing enquiries, as well as helping to build up their wider intelligence picture. 

If you believe you have any information relating to any of these or any other events then please call 101 or alternatively, you can use social media messaging or the online Reporting System Report a crime | Surrey Police 

Or copy the link into your browser https://www.surrey.police.uk/ro/report/ocr/af/how-to-report-a-crime/ 

If you do spot suspicious behaviour, we urge people to call this into the police immediately yourself, and of course if you believe there is a crime in progress do call 999. 

You can also give information, 100% anonymously, to the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111; or through their anonymous online form: https://crimestoppers-uk.org/

Kind Regards