March 12, 2013 3.30 pm
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Police warning after spate of burglaries in Lincoln West End
Burglary warning: Lincolnshire Police are warning residents in the West End area of Lincoln to be vigilant after a spate of more than 11 burglaries in the past weeks.
Properties in Severn Street, Hewson Road and Cambridge Avenue were all broken into in the early hours of Tuesday, June 14.
Lincolnshire Police are warning residents in the West End area of Lincoln to be vigilant after a spate of more than 11 burglaries in the past weeks.
Homes in Spital Street, Sherbrooke Street, Chelmsford Street, Richmond Road and Avenue Terrace in Lincoln have been burgled recently.
These burglaries were committed at various times of the day and night and entry to the properties has been gained mainly through the rear of the properties, via unlocked doors and windows.
On a few occasions a brick or garden tool have been used to smash a window to gain entry.
A variety of items were stolen, including handbags, laptops, jewellery, video games consoles, smartphones, music players and tablets.
In the Richmond Road burglary, car keys were also taken and used to unlock the vehicle, but the car wasn’t stolen.
PCSO Mel Waldren from Carholme Neighbourhood Policing Team has advised residents to remove all items from their rear gardens that could be used by offenders to gain entry to a property.
She said: “Lock all doors and windows, removing the keys from the inside after doing so. Lock garden gates and shared passage doors. Don’t leave items of value on display in easy view of your windows.
“If you are living in shared accommodation please lock the door when leaving, even if there is another tenant in the property. Speak to your neighbours and make them aware to keep a watchful eye on properties around them.”
Officers urged people to report any suspicious individuals or activity that seem to be loitering in the area, or seen around the rear of properties.
Anyone with information about these or any other burglaries is asked to contact Lincolnshire Police on 101. Alternatively, contact the charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.
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A 38-year-old man from a North Lincolnshire village charged with murder will face an eight-day trial later this year.
Emergency services were called at 4.23am on Saturday, July 2 to reports that a man was seriously injured on South Parade in central Doncaster.
The 28-year-old victim was taken to hospital but was sadly pronounced dead a short time later.
A post-mortem examination found that he died of injuries to his head, chest and abdomen.
Formal identification of the victim is yet to take place, South Yorkshire Police said earlier this week.
Steven Ling, 38, of Park Drain, Westwoodside in North Lincolnshire, has been charged with murder and was remanded in custody to appear at Doncaster Magistrates Court on Monday, July 4.
Ling later appeared at Sheffield Crown Court on Tuesday, July 5 for a plea and trial preparation hearing.
No pleas were entered during the hearing, but an eight-day trial was set for November 28, 2022. Ling has now been remanded into custody until the next hearing.
The Lincolnite went on a ride-along with a Lincolnshire Police officer from the force’s Roads Policing Unit (RPU), which aims to disrupt criminals’ use of the roads and reduce the number of serious and fatal accidents.
The team will support the county response including local policing, neighbourhood policing and criminal investigation too.
Operations first began in Grantham in January this year and started in Louth earlier this week with a sergeant and nine PCs based in both locations.
The Lincolnite went out on a ride-along with PC Rich Precious from Lincolnshire Police’s Roads Policing Unit. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
PC Rich Precious has been a police officer for 22 years after joining the force in 2000 and he recently rejoined the Roads Policing Unit, working out of Louth.
PC Precious, who also previously worked as a family liaison officer for road deaths for 16 years, took The Lincolnite out in his police car to the A1 up to Colsteworth and then back to Grantham. He described that particular area as “one of the main arterial routes that goes through Lincolnshire”.
PC Rich Precious driving down the A1 up to Colsterworth. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Speaking about the new Roads Policing Unit, he said: “It’s intelligence led policing, it’s targeted policing in areas that have been underrepresented in terms of police presence, on the roads certainly, over a number of years.
“We’re hoping that the development of this unit will help address that balance, and look towards using the ANPR system to prevent criminals’ use of the road, and to identify key areas or routes where there’s a high percentage of people killed or seriously injured on the road, what we commonly refer to as KSI.
PC Precious is helping to keep the roads safer in Lincolnshire. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
When asked if he thinks the new team will help reduce the number of serious and fatal accidents in the county, he added: “That’s what the the unit designed for. Sadly, in Lincolnshire our road network does seem to incur a number of those KSI accidents year on year, and we need to reduce that.
“I’ve worked additionally in my roles as a family liaison officer on road death for 16 years, so I’ve seen first hand the impact that road death has on families and victims families.
“I know it’s important that we try and reduce those because, it’s very sad to see how a fatal road traffic collision can affect a family and the victims of that family.”
Marc Gee, Inspector for Lincolnshire Police’s Roads Policing Unit. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Marc Gee, Inspector for the Roads Policing Unit, told The Lincolnite: “Every day there will be officers on duty from both teams and they’ll cover the whole county or the county’s roads.
“Eventually, we’ll have nine police cars and we’ve got six motorbikes. We’ll be utilising them with as many officers as we can every day basically to make our roads safer and enforce against the criminals who feel like it’s okay to come into the county and use our road for criminal purposes.”
Lincolnshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Marc Jones at the launch of the force’s Roads Policing Unit. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
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