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School Gate Fear

Where? Laleham near Primary School
When?   August 2007
What?    Drug use

Parents report that a man is using drugs in a phone box outside Laleham Primary School.

Parents also say that police have failed to deal with the reports seriously.

The Surrey Police local neighbourhood team has promised to increase patrols in the area.

What more could be done?

Detect Crime

* Target the area at the times that the parents have highlighted
* Speak directly with informants to gain good description of accused
* Establish if there is a pattern to the drug use
* Establish if there is any dealing going on at the location too
* Put in surveillance to catch the criminal ‘in the act’

Disrupt Crime

* Stops on vehicles using the road at the highlighted times
* Close the kiosk at the highlighted times
* High visibility patrols by uniformed officers in the area
* Consider temporary crime reduction CCTV.

Where? Woodthorpe Road
When?   8 August 2007
What?    Assault

Detectives in Spelthorne are appealing for witnesses to come forward following an assault in Ashford. The incident happened between midnight and 1am on Saturday 4 August, under the bridge on Woodthorpe Road. The 24-year-old victim was walking alone when he was approached by two young men who asked if they could borrow his lighter. They used the lighter and returned it but then one of the men slashed the victims left check with a sharp implement in an unprovoked attack. The victim attended St Peters Hospital where he received stitches to the slash on his face. The first suspect is described as a white man, 5ft2 tall and 16-years-old. The second suspect is described as a black man, 5ft7 tall and 16-years-old. Both suspects were described as having strong London accents. Can you help? If you witnessed the assault or you have any information contact investigating officer Detective Constable Steve Whitby at Staines CID on 0845 125 2222 quoting crime reference number A/07/19999 or Crimestoppers:
0800 555 111. http://www.surrey.police.uk/

Where? Ashford
When?   August 2007
What?    Burglary

DETECTIVES in Spelthorne have today (Monday 13 August) issued CCTV stills following a burglary that took place at the Royal Hart Pub in Church Road, Ashford. The stills show two men entering the rear office of the pub and stealing items of property from the office and from the private living quarters. Property stolen included three handbags, £110 in cash, a laptop, an IPod and jewellery.

Crimestoppers: 0800 555 111. http://www.surrey.police.uk/

Where? Shepperton
When?   August 2007
What?    Racial Abuse

Police in Spelthorne are appealing for witnesses to come forward following an incident in Shepperton earlier this month in which a shop volunteer was racially abused and a man’s shirt stolen. The incident took place at 11am on 1 August, when the man entered the Connect charity shop in the High Street, Shepperton, selected a shirt and went to enter a sectioned off area of the shop used as a packing area by staff, presumably believing it to be a fitting room. When told this by the volunteer assistant, an Asian female in her 30s, he racially abused her a then left the store taking the shirt, a blue Ben Sherman, with him, turning left onto Russell Road. The suspect is described as a white male, aged in his mid 30s, 6ft 3ins, of slim build with ginger spiky hair and wearing a blue T-shirt, jeans and sunglasses. There were other members on the public in the shop at the time of the incident and police are asking witnesses to come forward.