Recent Burglaries
Please can I ask you all to be vigilant as we have had a sudden spate of house burglaries in the villages.
On Monday between 1pm and 1:15pm a burglary occurred at a premises on the A30 at Windlesham, smashed through a front window and stole jewellery. The house owner encountered the male leaving the premises as she returned home. He is described as a white male, 5′ 8″ tall, proportionate build, with short brown hair balding on top. He was wearing a dark coloured jacket and light brown / beige trousers.
Between 3:30pm and 4pm three white males , mid 20s to mid 30s in age wearing tracksuit bottoms broke into a house on MacDonald Road, Lightwater. They were disturbed by an alarm and ran off getting into a blue Ford Focus parked nearby and sped off.
The blue Ford Focus had also been seen in suspicious circumstances at another house in Windlesham earlier in the day. However Pc Foster from our dog section saw the vehicle in Sunningdale at 4:50pm where it was apparent they were breaking into another house. The vehicle tried to make off and was pursued at speed through Sunningdale and Chobham by officers but unfortunately lost near to Castle Grove Road. The vehicle was later recovered abandoned in Horsell. The number plates were false and had been stolen from a car in London and the actual car had been stolen in Hertfordshire.
Today we attended a house on Chertsey Road, Chobham near to the junction with Brookleys at 3:15pm as a male had tried to break into the house. The offender used a common trick by ringing the door bell and knocking on the door to see if the house was occupied. The owner was actually in the garden but when he got to the door the offender had gone, only to return a few minutes later thinking the house was empty tried to force open the front door but ran off when the occupier sounded his alarm. The offender is described as a white male, in his 30s, 5′ 10″ tall, short dark hair, wearing a light coloured t-shirt, black jumper, black gloves and light coloured shorts. We were on the scene very quickly and despite the best efforts of Pc Heywood and his dog a track could not be found for the dog to follow suggesting the offender had a car parked very nearby.
Please, if you see any suspicious persons / vehicles / activity call us straight away on 999. These appear to be experienced burglars travelling all over the south of England and we would love to catch them. Often what may appear to be only a minor matter that you may think wouldn’t warrant a phone call could prove to be of vital importance leading to some good arrests.
Many thanks
Pc Ed Griffiths