Firstly may I say thank you to all of Cowlings NHW schemes who, with the support of Ray and the Mill Croft scheme, have been one of the most active villages reporting incidents and assisting with police enquiries in the South Craven Area. This has resulted in vehicles being stopped, persons detained and crimes being detected. Most recently 'scrap collectors' were reported by three different individuals when they were seen taking items from fields and gardens without asking the owners permission. The vehicle was stopped on it's way back to West Yorkshire and two arrested. In a separate incident following a fire at Bench Farm we have had several reports of people at the premises this resulted in three persons advised and four being arrested.
Whilst these are obviously good news there have also been attacks on Holy Trinity Church and Cowling Primary school where both have been targeted for their lead flashing enquiries are on going but please ring in with any suspicious activity you see in the village, don't think it's not important you may have the missing piece of information that completes the whole picture. Information can be passed back to your co-ordinators or if you require an officer to attend ring through to North Yorkshire Police on 0845 6060247 request to go to the control room and get an incident number all jobs will be prioritised but if officers are available they will be sent to any incidents reported. If you wish to speak to an officer from Crosshills the control room can accommodate this. Crosshills Police Station is manned 24hrs a day often officers will be out on patrol so if you attend the Police Station and the door is locked please use the yellow phone outside to speak directly to the control room. In an emergency, in that there is a risk to life or there is a suspected crime in progress, please ring 999 straight away from any phone available.
With the summer coming up please try and keep valuables out of sight of opportunist thieves, keep your doors locked and close ground floor windows before you go upstairs. We have had several incidents throughout the district whereby keys have been acquired through open windows/letterboxes/cat flaps allowing access to the house and allowing vehicles to be driven away with no apparent entry to the property.
If you haven't returned your census forms officials will be visiting your property but please check identification cards and ring if anything is amiss, they shouldn't call at any address where the forms have been returned.
PCSO 3578 Jason Perkins
Crosshills Police Station
0845 6060247
Crosshills Police Station
0845 6060247
