Between Thursday 4th April 2015 and Saturday 6th April 2015 a property in Whitemoor Road, Kenilworth was burgled. Access was made at the rear of the property through the garage. Residents are advised to be be vigilant and keep a special lookout for persons loitering around neighbourhoods or seen in and around neighbours gardens etc. If you see something suspicious please contact the police immediately.

(This latest notification/alert has been posed by Crown Watch Neighbourhood Watch as Warwickshire Police have failed to notify us of any burglaries in the past couple of weeks in Kenilworth through their alert system despite this one occurring on our watch area! Crown Watch is seeking a meeting with the Southern Warwickshire Area Commander as it feels despite several past referrals the crime alert system is NOT fit for purpose as it is unreliable and as it appears not to be process based it is NOT robust.)

Catalytic Convertor Thefts & Another Burglary – Kenilworth

Between 23.00hrs on the 25 March 2015 & 07.30hrs on the 27 March 2015 on Mayfield Drive and between 22.15hrs on the 29 March 2015 & 10.00hrs on 30 March 2015 at Chatsworth Grove there were thefts of catalytic converters from two vehicles. This involved person/s using tools to access the exhaust systems under the vehicles on private drives. Residents are advised to be vigilant

On 1 April 2015 in Arbour Close a burglary took place between 18.20hrs and 22.00hrs. Person/s gained entry via a rear gate and entered a property through a downstairs window.
Items of jewellery and money were taken and offenders left in an unknown direction.

Please contact 101 if you have seen anything suspicious in the areas where these crimes have taken place.

Despite several previous appeals by Warwickshire Police and Crown Watch it seems there are still people who either don’t think it will happen to them, ignore the warnings or simply just don’t think about such things. What are we talking about…? Leaving items on show in vehicles!

Over the past few days a spate of thefts have been experienced across Kenilworth.

Crackley Lane, Kenilworth – Theft from motor vehicle Between 18:00hrs and 18:40hrs on Sunday 22 March 2015 offenders have approached a vehicle that had been parked up securely at location and  have smashed the front nearside window, reached in and grabbed a handbag that had been left in the passenger footwell.

Crackley Lane, Kenilworth – Theft from motor vehicle Between 14:30hrs and15:10hrs Tuesday 24 March 2015  a Volvo V70 motor car, grey in colour, was parked in a layby. Offenders attempted to force the front nearside door lock but were unsuccessful. They then smashed the rear neaside window and reached in stealing property left on the rear seat.

Town Centre, Kenilworth – Theft between 12:00midday and 12:15hrs a personwas in a town centre charity shop. She made a purchase then placed her purse back into her handbag. She then went to a nearby cafe at which point she realised her purse had been stolen. She cannot recall if the handbag was unzipped when she noticed the purse missing.

We are sorry about the late posting of the events that took place in Crackley Lane, this is due to the failure of Warwickshire Police to notify Neighbourhood Watch of the crimes.

Kenilworth residents are being warned to remain vigilant and report anything or anyone suspicious loitering around properties and neighbourhoods following a daytime burglary that took place on Thursday 26 March 2015.

Between 6:30am and 3:15pm on Thursday 26th March, offenders made their way into the rear of a property in Brookside Ave, Kenilworth. They used a tool to force open a double glazed window. Once inside the offenders made an untidy search of the property and took some gold jewellery leaving via a patio door that had a key left in it.

If you have any information please call 101 quoting incident 249-26-3-15

Over the past couple of days a number of telephone landline numbers in and around Kenilworth have been called by persons purporting to be calling from Microsoft Windows. They open the conversation by saying that they are ringing you from “Windows” about a problem with your “Windows” computer.

Their intention is to get you talking and suggest you need to do certain things to your computer to resolve a problem that has happened and has been detected on their system (a problem you never knew you had!). It’s a SCAM – they will then ask you to spend money to buy an upgrade to the fix the problem and then another problem occurs and more money is requested and so on. Where this has happened in the past some people have been tricked into spending over £1000!

Microsoft Windows and indeed Apple DO NOT call customers at home. Kenilworth residents are strongly advised to cut the call once the person says they are ringing from Windows. Don’t listen to what they are saying because they can be very persuasive. Remember, they are criminals – all they want is to steal your money!

Please ensure that you warn your friends and neighbours of this menace, especially older people who might not receive this warning.