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Get your garden safe for the Spring!
Your garden, as well as your house, has valued possessions that thieves would love to steal. It also has equipment that could help them break into your house. Most burglars are looking for easy ways of getting into a house … Continue reading
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Community Speed Watch
Community Speedwatch (CSW) is a road safety initiative to reduce traffic speeding on local roads, particularly through villages and built-up areas. The scheme enables volunteers, alongside the Safety Camera Partnership, to work within their community to raise awareness of the … Continue reading
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Identity Theft
As the public continue to protect their homes and property against crime identity theft is becoming more of a potentially serious crime. As a victim of identity fraud, you might not realise you’ve been targeted until a bill arrives for … Continue reading
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Romance Fraud
Don’t fall for romance fraud this Valentine’s Day! Romance frauds happen when the victim thinks they’ve met the perfect partner through an online dating website or app, but the other person is using a fake profile to form a relationship … Continue reading
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Tackling Street Harassment
‘Are you okay?’ could go a long way to tackling street harassment Street harassment is on the rise and that is partly down to our culture of acceptance and tolerance of it. Crimes and harmful behaviours such as public sexual … Continue reading
Watch out for scams
With the costs of road fuel, gas & electricity, postage, and many food products escalating at the present time, please be aware that scammers are taking advantage of this situation. Cyber criminals claiming to represent Ofgem are targeting householders offering … Continue reading
Feeling safer at home
Research shows two thirds (67%) of people are worried about their home being broken into, yet there are simple, proven measures we can all take to reduce our chances of becoming a victim of burglary by up to 50%. To … Continue reading
the role of a Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinator
To encourage vigilance amongst scheme members and actively encourage the early reporting of suspicious incidents to the police or to Action Fraud if it should relate to a con or scam. To receive crime information and advice from the Alert … Continue reading
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Newsletter, Cons and Scams
In our previous newsletter, we concentrated very much on cyber-crime issues of which there are very many. With this newsletter, we are concentrating on cons & scams that come into our lives by telephone, the post, and across the doorstep. … Continue reading
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Neighbourhood Watch in Wycombe District 