Crimewatch:‘Help us stop credit crunch burglaries’

Mar 23 2009 By Dave Whitterton

NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICE WATCH NEWS ROUNDUP: 
The national media are highlighting the prospect of increased risk of burglaries with the increasing economic downturn. Please help us keep this a low crime area. Ford Focus car radios have been stolen in the district recently. Anyone with any information should contact Richard Hobson at Kirkburton Police Station. Police are also appealing for information following the theft at a shop on High Street, Clayton West. The incident was at 6.30pm on Tuesday, March 3, when the suspect went into the shop and threw a small tub of flowers at the victim. This missed, but knocked several items off the counter. The victim ran to the back of the shop and the suspect made off with the till and its contents. He is described as a white male, 5ft 10 and in his late teens to late 20s. He was wearing a black balaclava and a black long sleeved top. Anyone with information is asked to contact WPc Wendy Orford at Huddersfield Police Station on 01484 436 793. Anyone with information about an incident at Storthes Hall campus on March 4, where four vehicles and a door were damaged and a person assaulted, should please contact Pc Nelson at Kirkburton Police Station. Regular evening patrols are being carried out in the Shelley Park area where local youths are being spoken to and in some instances escorted home. If your children are out on an evening do you know where they are and what they are doing? Two attempts have been made to break into properties in Grange Moor. Anyone seeing any suspicious vehicles or people about in the area please contact Bob Armitage at Kirkburton Police Station. The NPT local priorities in your neighbourhood are: Clayton West: cutting anti-social behaviour by bus shelter, in Church lane, Clayton West. Skelmanthorpe: cutting anti-social behaviour by Skelmanthorpe Health Centre, Commercial Road and in the Cross Lane areas. Flockton: cutting anti social behaviour in the Parkside estate in the village. Kirkburton: stopping indiscriminate parking of vehicles in the North Road, Hallas Road and Riley Lane areas. Farnley Tyas: slowing down speeding traffic by enforcing legislation in the Butts Road area. Shelley: tackling anti-social behaviour in Westerley Lane, Hawthorne Way, Park Avenue, Park Drive areas of Shelley Park Estate. Shepley: tackling anti-social behaviour by the village health centre on Jos Lane. Stocksmoor: slowing down speeding traffic in Stocksmoor Road, by enforcing legislation where possible.