June's crime figures are out for Chislehurst, Petts Wood
and Bickley.
We have updated our crime tables which can be found by going
to www.chislehurstpettswoodandbickleyvillagenews.co.uk
and clicking on Crime from the Home Page menu. As usual the figures make interesting
reading.
The “highlights” to take a look at include:
Chislehurst
In December 2013,
with 44, Chislehurst had the highest number of anti-social behaviour incidents
for the year. Seven of these were on or around Alexander Road.
February saw 14
incidents of criminal damage and arson, a high for at least the previous twelve months. Of these, four were on around our friend – Alexander Road – again. So
far no suspects have been identified, either for these or for any of the other
five incidents in or around Green Lane.
In May there were
an unusually high – 22 – number of violence and sexual offences incidents, of
which 15 were in or around the High Street. In not one of these cases has
anyone yet been charged.
Bickley
In May, Bickley
had the highest number of robberies since at least the beginning of 2013 not
only in Bickley but in Chislehurst and Petts Wood also. There were five – two on
or near Mavelstone Close, and three on or near Tylney Road.
Petts Wood
Petts Wood saw five
public order offences in December 2013,
the highest for the year in Petts Wood. Three of these were at or near the
station.
Petts Wood had three robberies in January. To put this in perspective, Petts Wood had no reported
robberies for the whole of the first nine months of 2013. For the robbery on or
near Hillview Crescent, the offender was sent to prison.
In April, Petts
Wood hit a year high for other theft, with 15 incidents, including eight on or
near the petrol station in Queensway. In all of these eight cases the investigation
has been completed with no suspects identified. In June the number of incidents rose even higher, to 17. This included
11 on or near the petrol station. Of these, three have had the investigations
completed with no suspects identified, the other eight are still under investigation.
Is Queensway’s petrol station becoming a soft touch for free petrol, Village
News asks?
Also in June there
were nine shoplifting incidents. The average for 2013 was three per month.
On the plus side,
- there have been few bicycle thefts, an average of one a month across the Village News area for the first 6 months of 2014.
- Bickley saw the fewest burglaries – 3 - in June compared with the previous eighteen months.
- there have been no incidents of possession of weapons in the Village News area so far in 2014.
- there were fewer total reported incidents between the respective months of 2014 and 2013 with the exception of June, helped by those 17 other theft incidents in Petts Wood. July 2013 was the month with the highest number of incidents for the year in the Village News area, so we wait with bated breath for this July’s figure.
In the meantime, the Village News staff are off to a certain petrol station armed with a
Jerry can and a pair of running shoes.
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