Cllr Roy Gerstner – Community Activist

As we head into the colder months, you may be tempted to leave your car running unattended in the morning in order to de-ice and warm it up!

This can leave your vehicle vulnerable and could end up attracting opportunistic thieves.

Here’s some tips to help you protect your vehicle from theft this autumn:

🔐 Make sure your vehicle is always locked and any windows are shut, even if you are just leaving it for a short time

🏠 Keep your keys safe, out of view and away from your front door when at home

🚙 Have a keyless car? Prevent your signal being cloned by keeping any keys in a faraday pouch

💡 Park in well-lit and busier areas

🚘 Look at protecting your vehicle from the inside by using steering wheel locks, and gear stick locks

You can find out more about how to keep your vehicle safe from theft here.

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Dear Roy,
What a weekend for our Rural Crime Action Team (RCAT) 👮 🌾🐾 🚜
The team have been to every corner of the county – visiting gamekeepers, interviewing hare coursers, seizing cars used in crime, recovering stolen property and protecting wildlife 💪🏼
📍 Peterborough – they visited a local gamekeeper near Barnack who has been having issues with anti-social behaviour, and patrolled along the Cambs / Lincs border 🚔
📍 Fenland – they recovered a stolen dumper truck near Thorney Toll following a sighting from a Cambridgeshire Countryside Watch member 👀👏
📍 Huntingdonshire – they completed some farm visits, dealt with a violent man in Yaxley and provide support to an elderly victim of a burglary in St Neots 💙
📍 East Cambridgeshire – they seized a vehicle that had caused a significant amount of damage to crops and progressed the investigation near Prickwillow, and seized another two used in crime in Soham 🚗❌
📍 South Cambridgeshire – they seized five vehicles involved in different hare coursing incidents, including seizing two dogs across Balsham and Childerley. They also recovered a stolen vehicle from a burglary in Rampton 🐕🚓
📍 Cambridge City – they completed patrols along the River Cam following historical reports of attacks on wildlife 🦆🌊
Report non-urgent rural or wildlife crime on our website.
Kind Regards,
Sergeant Tom Nuttall

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