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Active Priorities
Our top priorities for your neighbourhood are as follows:
Speeding on various roads around rural parishes of Axminster
You Said: 1 Jan 2010
B3165 Burrowshot; B3165 Yawl through to Uplyme; A358 Tytherleigh; A358 Musbury; A35 Wilmington; Unclassified road from Shute Pillars through to Shute Barton; Unclassified road through Kilmington Village.
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Throughout July speed checks have continued using both the speed advisor equipment and the laser speed gun at the following locations:
21st July 2010 (1540-1650 hrs) – B3165 Burrowshott, Uplyme (40 mph limit) – 12 offences recorded, worst offender at 53 mph.
26th July 2010 (0830-0920 hrs) – Unspecified road between Shute Barton and Bakers Mead, Shute (30 mph limit) – 1 offence recorded, at 48 mph.
27th July 2010 (0830-0930 hrs) – A358 Tytherleigh (30 mph limit) – 3 offences recorded, worst offender at 44 mph.
A total of 16 drivers were dealt with for exceeding the speed limits in July. As our aim is to educate drivers and consequently improve road safety, most of those drivers received a verbal warning. They were informed that their details would be added to a database maintained by the constabulary and that in the event of them being stopped for exceeding the speed limit again, that more formal action would be taken.
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Burglaries to outbuildings in rural communities
You Said: 1 Jan 2010
Accounts for a high proportion of all crime in the rural parishes surrounding Axminster.
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I am pleased to report that burglary figures are still showing a significant improvement year to date. Between 1st January 2010 and 31st July 2010 a total of 62 burglaries have been reported. Of these 11 have been detected and a further 3 are pending with suspects currently on bail. This compares with a reported 82 burglaries in the same period in 2009 with only 6 resulting in detections.
The suspects referred to above were located and arrested following a report to Police from a farmer in Dalwood who had found two males in outbuildings on his property. He saw them run to a vehicle and drive off. The vehicle details were circulated and the vehicle was consequently stopped on the seven mile straight near Stockland. The males were found to be in possession of a number of power tools, which we are in the process of trying to link to other burglaries. The males were also found in possession of a knife and a substance believed to be a controlled drug.
Another major factor in the improvement in our burglary figures is our ongoing initiatives to target those individuals who are thought to be active in night time acquisitive crime. The latest ‘Operation Twickenham’ took place across the rural Axminster area on the 2nd and 3rd August 2010 and involved the Neighbourhood Team supported by other Devon & Cornwall Police resources, including Traffic and Dog Units.
PLEASE HELP US TO HELP YOU, TAKE THE TIME TO RECORD SERIAL NUMBERS. IT IS INEVITABLY TOO LATE ONCE THEY ARE STOLEN AS MANUFACTURERS RARELY INCLUDE THEM IN ACCOMPANYING MANUALS/DOCUMENTATION/PACKAGING. THE SERIAL NUMBERS ARE INVALUABLE IN LINKING RECOVERED ITEMS TO CRIMES AND CONSEQUENTLY IN ENSURING OFFENDERS ARE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE.
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Anti-social behaviour by young persons.
You Said: 1 Jan 2010
Although not a major problem, several parishes reported a problem with young people causing problems such as noise and general nuisance behaviour by hanging around on street corners. It was recognised that this was due to a lack of facilities/places for them to go or things for them to do.
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Our latest project aimed at building better relationships between the Police and local young peole, ' The Commando Challenge 2010' has started in earnest. We have now completed 6 weeks of training and have so far recruited 14-16 young people. The event will culminate in the NHT and the young people involved completing the Royal Marines assault course on Sunday 10th Ocotber 2010, all in aid of charity. For more information please see the 'Commando Challenge 2010' page in News
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