Message from Sgt Colin Pike -  January 2012.

Firstly, I wish you all a very Happy New Year and I do hope you all had a very happy crime free Christmas.

I’d like to start the New Year off by welcoming our new PCSO Mark Phillips to the team here at Ascot. Mark will be working along side Melita for a while until he has found his feet.


The Ascot Neighbourhood Policing Team completed their final combined speed and mobile phone operation on Friday 9th December 2011. As usual acting on information received from local residents the location for the operation was Sunninghill Road heading out of the village towards the A329 London Road.

In the hour and half period starting at 7.30am, nineteen vehicles were stopped for travelling over the 30mph speed limit. Seven drivers received a verbal warning with twelve being issued with tickets referring them to the driver referral scheme. Two thirds of the drivers were local residents. Also during this period three drivers were seen using their mobile phones and dealt with by referral to the driver awareness scheme. Finally whilst doing checks one driver was found to have no MOT on his vehicle and was issued with a penalty fine.
The team also decided to pay particular attention to drivers using their mobile phones this year and in ten targeted operations issued 53 fines or driver awareness courses. These operations were extra on top of what the team regularly do on patrol in the area.

ANPR, automatic number plate recognition operations have taken place quarterly during the year. We have targeted two areas especially this year with the A30 in Sunningdale being one of them. It is the main route we believe that are travelling criminals use to get into the area. Over 3,250 vehicles went through the system with the majority being legally on the road.

Finally we also incorporated in many of the operations the on going problem of vehicles contravening the no entry signs at the zebra crossing by Sunningdale Railway Station. This very dangerous manoeuvre continues to happen even though the team have issued 22 endorsable tickets this year.
These operations will continue in 2012 and if you have any issues relating to any of the above in your area please let us know at Ascot.   Please see the image below to see how not to do it.

Burglary Non dwelling was down at the end of 2011 compared to the previous year but unfortunately we did suffer a spate of shed burglaries around the 5th January this year. Golf clubs seem to have been targeted. I would urge anyone who has been offered a set on the cheap to get in touch with us. I would also like to recommend that you give some thought to fitting a shed alarm. These are reasonably cheap and if you are a member of Neighbourhood Watch you can buy them through your local watch coordinator.

Colin Pike

Police Notice re London Road A30 Sunningdale - dated 8th December 2011

The local Neighbourhood team are receiving more and more reports of dangerous driving in Sunningdale.

There are a large number of people who travel from the Camberley direction who are held up by the level crossing at Sunningdale and decide, as they are only going to Waitrose, to jump the queue of traffic. They drive on the wrong side of the road through NO ENTRY signs and over a pedestrian crossing on the wrong side.  They then turn left into Waitrose. 

This is a dangerous practice because:

Please be warned ....... The local police are continuing to carry out enforcement at this location.

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