Author: Fraser Pithie

Please be aware that between 1700hrs on Sunday 15 March and 1600hrs on Monday 16 March 2020 offenders have accessed the garden of a property at Brookside Avenue, Kenilworth through a side gate. The offenders have then smashed the rear door and entered the property. Once inside the property offenders have made an untidy search. It is not clear at this stage what items have been stolen.

This is incident 294 of 16 March 2020

If you think you may have seen or heard of anything suspicious or have any information about this incident then please contact Warwickshire Police on 101 or alternatively you can call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111

Kenilworth Safer Neighbourhood Team are advising owners of all vans and commercial vehicles to take all reasonable steps to protect their vehicles from attack overnight while parked outside home addresses. 

The warning comes after a spate of attacks overnight between Monday 2 March and Tuesday 3 March 2020 across Kenilworth.

Three commercial vehicles (vans) have been broken into with the contents stolen.

One van was parked on a drive at Roseland Road, offenders stole the contents of the van being power and construction type tools.

This is incident 48 of 3 March 2020

A second van was broken into at Dudley Road between 21.30hrs on 2 March and 0630hrs on 3 March 2020. Offenders attacked and cut into the passenger side of the van and stole a range of power tools and cordless tools and cordless tool batteries.

This is incident 112 of 3 March 2020

At approximately 0220hrs on Tuesday 3 March 2020 offenders attacked a third van parked at Fishponds Road. The rear doors of the van were cut and a number of power and cordless tools were stolen.

This is incident 123 of 3 March 2020

If you think you may have seen or heard anything suspicious or have any information about these incidents then please contact Warwickshire Police on 101 or alternatively you can call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111

We are celebrating this morning, it’s the first day of spring and the sun is shining (well it is at the time we are writing this) and let’s hope the rain takes a long break now for everyone’s sake!

Kenilworth Watch is also celebrating the fact that now over 900 residents across our community subscribe to our free crime alert/crime prevention emails that they receive the minute we put a post on our website. It’s been several years since we first started the website, which in the early days was the website for the Windy Arbour, Tulip Tree Avenue and Whitemoor Road “Crown Watch” Neighbourhood Watch scheme.

Recognising that technology was stealing a march on things the “Crown Watch” group disbanded and we decided to just maintain a website, that also had an automatic email facility, to keep residents informed of crime in and around their community, crime prevention advice and results arising prosecutions. Over the several years the number of people following our website has grown and we have now reached over 900 residents that are signed up to our immediate updates by email.

For those that are savvy with social media we are also on Twitter (@kenilworthwatch ) and have grown our followers on that too with now over 530 followers. The benefit of having so many people signed up enables us to keep the community informed of the latest events in and around Kenilworth they need to know about as well as receiving timely advice and information. While we are independent we work alongside and closely with Warwickshire Police and their Kenilworth Safer Neighbourhood Team so we can ensure things are as up to date as possible.

Earlier this year we launched a CCTV register for Kenilworth residents and within the space of just two months we have nearly 60 residents signed up! It’s a great facility that enables us to check with residents and potentially save our local police lots of time with investigations. We’d also like to thank Kenilworth Vibes on Facebook for all the support they have given, and continue to give us, with our posts. Lot’s more residents have subscribed as a result of seeing us on the Vibes site which does such a great job in communicating with the community.

So, we’d like to say thank you to all those that make up the 900+ that receive our updates, each one of you help make a difference by being vigilant and alert in our local community and above by caring about the place you live in. We have a great community in Kenilworth and we feel our subscribers are very much part of making that so.

Between 2030hrs and 2100hrs on Wednesday 26 February 2020 three offenders in a dark coloured motor vehicle approached and threatened a male outside his house in Rouncil Lane, Kenilworth and demanded money. One of the offenders was armed with a baseball bat. The offenders then made off in the motor vehicle towards Leamington Spa.

This is incident 406 of 26 February 2020

If you think you may have seen or heard anything suspicious or have any information about this incident then please contact Warwickshire Police on 101 or alternatively you can call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111

Please be aware that between Tuesday 25 February and Wednesday 26 February 2020 offenders have entered the rear of a property at Castle Road, Kenilworth and gained entry to an unlocked outbuilding. A number of power tools were stolen.
This is incident 345 of 26 February 2020
If you think you may have seen or heard anything suspicious or have any information about this incident please contact Warwickshire Police on 101 or alternatively you can call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111