Crime

THAMES Valley Police has launched their Community Policing Awards.
The awards give people the chance to nominate a member of the force who they believe deserves recognition for their outstanding work in the community.
Details about how to nominate are at www.thamesvalleypolice.co.uk/communityawards

A CHESHAM teenager has been jailed for 14 months after committing a string of crimes in the town.
Craig Eyre, 18, of Pearce Road, stole a blue Volvo estate and drove dangerously along Leachcroft and Long Bottom Lane in Chalfont St Peter before crashing on January 15.
On the same day he stole a phone from a car in Seer Green.
Five days later he smashed a Paradigm Housing window before breaking into a home in Great Hivings, Chesham, where he stole a set of keys, wallet, mobile phone, and the Skoda Fabia.

A CAR was stolen from Chesham last week after burglars broke into a house and took the keys.
The incident happened the early hours of Friday morning (5/3) when offenders broke into the home in Asheridge Road, near the junction with Bevan Hill, taking a handbag and the keys to a blue Subara Impreza.

THE PARENTS of a man stabbed to death by a paranoid schizophrenic have spoken in a documentary of how they feel a mental health trust let them down.
Jim and Judy Cargill, of Rose Drive, Chesham, were featured in BBC 2 documentary 'Why did you kill my dad?' on Monday.
The programme was made by film-maker Julian Hendy, who visited Chesham to speak to the Cargills, after his own father, 75-year-old Philip Hendy was stabbed to death in 2007 by a mentally-ill stranger.

TWO men were arrested on suspicion of car crime charges after police launched a crackdown in Chesham.
Thames Valley Police swooped in raids on seven addresses in total across the town and in London at around 7am yesterday morning. The search warrants were carried out as part of an investigation with the Metropolitan Police into car crime offences in Chesham and in London.

CHESHAM Police Station re-opened its doors to the public this week after a five-month refurbishment project.
The station, in Broad Street, opened for business on Monday (22/2) after it had been closed on Bank Holiday Monday in August last year to undergo "extensive improvements".

A POLICE car had its windows smashed after it was parked in a Chesham street this week.
Officers in a patrol car parked outside Tom Scott House to take a statement in relation to a seperate incident at 9.30pm on Wednesday (17/2).
When they returned to their car to find all of the windows had been smashed. Police say "a number of leads" are being investigated which include sightings of a black VW Golf driving away from the scene.

A TAXI driver has spoken of his terror after an armed robber forced him at knife point to become his getaway driver.
Aamir Raj, 31, who has worked for A1 Taxiline for three years, was parked at The Broadway, in Chesham, at around 6.30pm on July 30 last year when homeless Peter Dixon jumped into his cab.
Dixon, 43, had just held up staff at BetFred bookmakers, in High Street, with a knife stealing cash and a handbag.

ARSONISTS are suspected of targeting two empty buildings in Chesham last week damaging one and completely destroying the other.
Fire crews from Chesham, Amersham, and High Wycombe, were called to Maple Court, in Wallington Road, at 4.48am on Thursday (11/2) to find a disused building on fire.
The three-storey building, which was also targeted by arsonists last year, suffered five per cent damage to all floors and roof as firefighters battled to control the blaze and save the building.

A HORSE trader who is appealing against conviction of animal cruelty offences denied allegations that his horses, ponies and donkeys were starving.
James Gray, 46, of Spindles Farm, Chalk Lane, Hyde Heath, told a court the equines, some of which were given a body condition score of 0 out of 5 by vet Katie Robinson, were in 'decent' to 'good' condition and were not 'emaciated' as alleged by the RSPCA.
The farm was the subject of an extensive investigation by the animal charity's inspectors in January 2008 which involved the removal of more than 100 alive equines and more than 30 carcases.
He was convicted of 11 charges under the Animal Welfare Act in May last year.