The Kenilworth Safer Neighbourhood Team, all at Warwickshire Police and Kenilworth Watch News would like to wish all members of the community a Merry Christmas. We hope you enjoy this festive time and you keep safe throughout the period. We will be working throughout the Christmas period primarily to respond and deal with emergencies but also to patrol and help keep Kenilworth’s community as safe and secure as possible.

If you know someone who may be on their own throughout the holiday perhaps pop round and say hello as loneliness can be very profound for those affected.

Have a great Christmas!

From Kenilworth’s Safer Neighbourhood Team & Kenilworth Watch News

Please be aware that between Friday 13 December and Friday 20 December 2019 offenders have broken into a property at Rouncil Lane, Kenilworth. Once inside the offenders carried out a very untidy search. It is not clear at this stage what, if anything, has been taken.

This is incident 317 of 20 December 2019

Householders are reminded that if you are going away for a few days to make sure you take sensible steps to protect your home and property.

• Get a neighbour to pop in and out to draw the curtains in the evening and undrawn them in the morning if you can and ask them to remove any post that’s been delivered.
• Put some lights on time clock devices so that when the evening comes lights go on in your home.
• Don’t leave vehicle keys inside the home if you are leaving your vehicles at home whilst you are away.
• If you haven’t got one think about a monitored burglar alarm.
• Consider infra-red operated security lights that come on when people approach your home.

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 call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111

21.25hrs FRIDAY 20 DECEMBER 2019

Residents are advised that the B4103 at Kenilworth Ford (between Brookside Avenue & Castle Green) is CLOSED due to flooding.

Drivers are advised:

• to seek and use alternative routes and AVOID the area around Kenilworth Castle.

• Under no circumstances to enter the water and attempt to drive through the flood at the Ford.

Please heed the advice of Warwickshire Police, Warwickshire Fire & Rescue Service, Highways Agency and Environment Agency and STAY SAFE.

The power cut affecting electricity supplies in parts of Kenilworth and the surrounding area is estimated to be repaired with supplies restored by approximately 06.30hrs. This information has been provided by Western Power Distribution.

The latest statistics released by Kenilworth’s Safer Neighbourhood Team are very much welcomed by Kenilworth Watch. In overall terms crime in the Kenilworth District has reduced between August and October by 29.3% compared to the same period last year.

We believe that the reduction is partly due to more people actively taking interest in their own security and taking appropriate measures to deter criminals. Our regular crime alerts which now go out to over 900 homes have undoubtedly helped in focusing householders on matters of home and vehicle security.

While the reduction is encouraging we still wish to emphasise that criminals continue to operate in our area and therefore vigilance and deterrence are both continually required so we are able to protect our homes, property and vehicles.

We’d like to to take this opportunity to thank Kenilworth’s Safer Neighbourhood Team for all the work in helping preventing and deterring crime. Kenilworth is fortunate in being one of only a few places that has the benefit of timely and up to date crime alerts via its Safer Neighbourhood Team who is supported by Police Service Volunteers.