August 2016

Contact Us Telephone - 0208 721 2471 Email -Croham.snt@met.police.uk Or go to http://content.met.police.uk/Team/Croydon/Croham. For details of local meetings, follow Sgt Harrison on Twitter@MPSeastcroydon Drop-in Surgery 17/08/2016 @ St. Augustine’s Avenue 1300 hours. 19/09/2016 @ Elmfield Way 1300 hours Ward Meeting on the 26/09/16 at 19:00 hours at the Capital Business Centre in Carlton Road.

NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH OFFICER If you would like to join the Croydon Borough Neighbourhood Watch Association ( CBNWA ) please contact:

Katie Moore at Tel:07454 573453 E-mail on: nhw@cbnwa.com or contact us by post at Croydon Fire Station, 90 Old Town, Croydon, CR0 1AR

OUR PROMISES 1. Croham Hurst Woods – We conduct regular foot patrols preventing crime and anti-social behaviour. 2. Total victim care - We have regular street briefings and visit home & businesses carrying out crime prevention assessments. 3. Anti-social behaviour by motorists and anti-social use of motor vehicles

News in Brief Wisborough Road Update

PokemonGo warning

Dangerous Dog Act

If you have any feedback relating to a stop and search in the Borough, please email

croydonsands@gmail.com

IT’S PROBABLY NOTHING BUT… If you see or hear something that could be terrorist related,

trust your instincts and call the confidential

ANTI - TERRORIST HOTLINE 0800 789 321

Our specially trained officers will take it from there. Your call could save lives.

Terrorists live amongst us whilst they are planning attacks. We want you to look out for unusual activity or behaviour which strikes you as not quite right. It may seem out of place in your normal day to day life. You may feel it’s probably nothing; but

unless you trust your instincts and tell us we won’t be able to judge whether the information you have is important or not.

Remember, no piece of information is considered too small or insignificant. Our specially trained Officers would rather take lots of calls which are made in good faith, but have innocent explanations

- rather than not getting any at all.

Croham Fact The Mazawattee Tea Company set up by John Boon Densham (1814–1886). He lived

in various properties and died at what is

now 17 Birdhurst Road.

August 2016

Anti-Social Behavior Wisborough Road Update. As many of you know over the last year I have reported several incidents of criminal damage to motor vehicles parked in Wisborough Road and also that these incidents have taken place for the last two years affecting the staff at Croham Place care home. There is a high likelihood that this damage is being caused by someone who lives locally and obviously does not like the staff parking in this road. There have been thankfully no recent reported incidents against the staff of Croham Place but there has been a couple of incidents against visiting contractors; because of this signs and covert cameras have now been put up in the road by Croydon Council’s Anti-Social Behavior Team to help combat this problem. I hope this will bring and end to this problem as it is only hurting people that are trying to work for a living and get on with their lives. If it doesn't I will be collecting any footage obtained of these incidents and prosecuting the person responsible for every offence that has taken place over the last two years. Many thanks to Jessica Twomey and the Croydon Anti social behavior team for their assistance with this matter.

Croham Quote

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others? - Martin Luther King, Jr.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PokemonGo Due to the recent phenomenon of PokemonGo, I thought this month we should touch on the subject that is clearly taking over the world. As I walk around both on and off duty I have seen groups of people, children and adults alike, walking around trying to catch these elusive creatures. As a self-confessed technophobe, I just don’t get it but each to their own. Anything that gets people out and about rather than sitting indoors watching television during the summer months is good in my book. Especially in this digital age where video games are the fall back activity for children that are bored and keeps them indoors. I suppose this is probably the perfect compromise of playing games and exercise and in my best Monty Python voice, “and now for something completely different”, this is the downside. Lifeboat crews being scrambled to rescue people apparently in difficulties when walking out to sea to catch Pokemon, a stampede in Sydney caused by people trying to catch a rare Pokemon. People have been shot in the United States as suspected burglars or as the suspect in botched robberies or as the victim for their mobile telephones. There have been multiple vehicle collisions reported worldwide as people play Pokemon whilst driving. People becoming lost in caves or wandering into sensitive or religious sites and causing upset and anger. There was even a man stabbed after approaching another person that he believed was a Pokemon player and asking him if he wanted to do battle with. There has been a group of people attempting to steal a boat to chase a rare Pokemon down a river. These incidents did not all take place abroad and are happening here in the UK, recently three youths were robbed at knife point in Merseyside and the most recent reported incident was people being robbed at gunpoint in London. I myself have witnessed a group of adults standing in the middle of a busy road at a T junction where vehicles could not see them as they take the bend not paying any attention to the traffic around them. So get to the point I hear you say, Well whilst I do not think that Croham is likely to have a stampede or require the lifeboat or cave specialists to turn out and rescue people, we are likely to become victims of crime as are our children. The problem is that whilst playing PokemonGo both children and adults walk around with their mobile telephones held out in front of them like a SatNav. And at night or when the light fades most iPhones or Android phones light up like the Blackpool Illuminations. This is attracting robbers and opportunist snatch thieves as the players present an easy target due to the fact they are not paying attention to their surroundings or people around them. The Croham team would ask that if you or your children or grandchildren are going to play PokemonGo then please do so taking care of where you are and what you are doing and are not advertising your mobile telephones to would-be thieves. Also that you or they are not wandering into other people’s property or restricted areas where you could be mistaken for someone with sinister intentions and the police being called.

Event Ideas We are looking for any ideas for new events on the Croham ward for our community engagement days. Please call or send us an E-mail.

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Dangerous dogs legislation The legislation around dogs being dangerously out of control changed on 13th May 2014. The amendments

made by the Anti-Social Behaviour Crime and Police Act 2014 are covered below.For the purposes of the Danger-ous Dogs Act 1991. An offence now is committed under S3(1) if a dog is dangerously out of control in ANY place. A dog is said to be dangerously out of control if there is

reasonable apprehension that the dog will injure any person or assistance dog whether it actually does so

or not. Any dog can be a dangerous dog! If a dog injures any person or assistance dog the offence becomes aggra-vated and up scales from a summary only matter to an

either way offence. In these cases additional powers are triggered under S17 & S18 of PACE 1984 (entry, search and seizure). A dog does not have to bite someone to

cause injury, injury can be caused by the dog jumping up and clawing/scratching, or knocking someone over. Run-ning out in front of a cyclist and causing a collision does not count, this is classified as an accident. Reasonable apprehension is something that a person of reasonable firmness must feel. Someone who has an inherent fear of dogs who wildly jumps around on the approach of a

dog does not constitute a person of reasonable firmness. Guidance therefore would suggest that the dog must in some way act aggressively towards the person to make

that sense of fear realistic.