Kenilworth Watch

Please be aware that a number of commercial vehicles (vans) have been broken into in Kenilworth over the past seven days (3rd to 10 April 2024). In some cases, the vehicles have been damaged with forced locks or doors and entered but without any property being taken.

In other cases, a significant number of tradesmen’s tools have been stolen along with damage to vehicles caused by the thieves gaining entry to the vehicle.

These events have happened in the evenings and overnight, and Warwickshire Police are currently investigating them. The vehicle damage and thefts from the commercial vehicles occurred at:

Albion Street, Arthur Street, Clinton Lane, Latimer Close, Oaks Road, Roseland Road, Walkers Way and Whitemoor Road – Kenilworth.

If you believe you may have seen or heard anything related to one of these incidents or have CCTV/Dashcam footage, please contact Warwickshire Police on 101. If you would prefer, you can report any information you may have about any of these incidents anonymously by contacting Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

Warwickshire Police are advising commercial vehicle owners not to leave tools and valuable goods in vans overnight and to apply self-adhesive notices externally on their vehicles that advise, “No Tools or Equipment is left in this vehicle overnight.” These notices are available from Kenilworth SNT, who can be contacted by leaving a voicemail on 01926 684404.

Sunday 7 April @ 1903hrs – Please be advised that National Grid have informed us that there is a electricity supply power outage affecting approximately 306 properties in Kenilworth. The fault is indicated as being on the High Voltage system and the current estimated time for the restoration of supply is 2100hrs.

The indicated postcodes affected are:

CV8 1BN, CV8 1BP, CV8 1LA, CV8 1LB, CV8 1LL, CV8 1LN, CV8 1LS, CV8 1LU, CV8 1LW, CV8 1LX, CV8 1RA, CV8 2FA, CV8 2FW, CV8 2FZ, CV8 2GS, CV8 2GU, CV8 2GX, CV8 2HB, CV8 2PA, CV8 2PB, CV8 2PD, CV8 2PE, CV8 2QN

It’s been a bad week for those committing crime this week in Kenilworth. Warwickshire Police’s Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT) for Kenilworth and members of the Shoplifting team targeted offenders who have been committing numerous thefts in the town and surrounding areas recently.

Firstly, PC Finch and PCSO Morgan of Kenilworth’s SNT caught 2 offenders on Tuesday after trying to steal alcohol from Sainsburys, one of which was found to be wanted by other Forces in the Country for bulk thefts.

On Thursday three males stole items from retail outlets in Talisman Square, but with SNT officers and CCTV monitoring they were tracked down and after a short pursuit were arrested and remanded in custody.

On Saturday 9 March 2024 PCSO Morgan assisted at Sainsburys where a male who had committed numerous thefts in the town was arrested for assault, public order, and theft.

In addition two prolific offenders were also arrested and have been remanded in custody. Not one of the offenders was a Kenilworth resident, they have been travelling in to commit crime. Warwickshire Police have reminded everyone that if you see something that is not quite right, please call it in, it may be the missing part of a bigger picture and could be the evidence needed to apprehend those who commit crime in our Neighbourhood.

Please be aware that between 0400hrs and 0430hrs on Sunday 28 January 2024 offenders climbed a neighbour’s fence and attempted to break into a property at Jackson Grove, Kenilworth by forcing/snapping the lock on a rear door. A burglar alarm activated before the offenders were able to enter the property and they made off.

This is Crime reference 23/3872/24

Please be aware that between 0730hrs and 1700hrs on Monday 29 Janaury 2024 offenders have entered the rear garden of a property at Henry Street, Kenilworth and thrown a granite block to smash the rear door. While the door and glass was damaged offenders were unable to make entry to the premises.

This is incident 209 of 29 January 2024

If you think you may have seen or heard anything suspicious, have any CCTV/Dashcam footage or information please contact Warwickshire Police on 101 or alternatively you can call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111