Longlevens and Elmbridge Community

Operation Dazzel in Gloucester Local Policing Area

Operation Dazzle will be lighting the way for people who ride their bikes with no lights. This initiative will run across the area to encourage those who don't have lights to get them or face a  fine. Please contact your local policing team on 101 to request further information and get your bike security marked for FREE!

Crime prevention for the winter months

Please be aware that during the winter months with the darker mornings and evenings as a community we can become more vulnerable to crime. Whether it being car breaks, shed or garage breaks. At this time we need to be more vigilant and more aware of securing our properties, out buildings and cars. 

At Home

• Don’t keep keys, money, phones or other valuables on a hall table.  Make sure these items are well out of sight and range of doors and windows as thieves use rods and hooks through letter boxes and open windows to reach keys and bags
• If you store larger presents such as bicycles in a shed make sure the building is secure
• Take the frame numbers of new bicycles and electrical equipment in case the worse happens
• Don’t leave empty boxes outside your home which advertises the fact that you have new goods
• Mark goods where possible with a UV pen / smartwater

Visiting family and friends

If you’re going out

• Make sure you have locked all windows and doors
• If you are going out in the evening close your curtains so potential thieves can’t see in
• Leave a light and the radio on
• If you are going out in the morning and won’t be back until it is dark use an automatic timer for lights and radio

If you’re going away

Ensure all doors and windows are shut and locked

• Cancel all newspapers and milk
• Tell your neighbours/and or your Neighbourhood Watch Scheme that you will be away so they can keep an eye on your home
• Perhaps they can make sure any mail is pushed through your letter box
• Maybe a trusted neighbour could draw and pull the curtains of your home in the evening and morning, again, looking as if you’re at home
• Hide any valuables
• Use timers for your lights, TV and radio so it looks as if you’re at home

Your Community Engagement Team our here to help and offer any crime prevention advice you may wish. If you would like us to visit and carry out a home property safety survey please call us on 101. 

Contact Hucclecote Safer Community Team

Where do you want us and why?

Neighbourhood Watch is a partnership where people come together to make their communities safer. It involves your local Safer Community Team, Community Safety departments of local authorities, other voluntary organisations and, above all, individuals and families who want to make their neighbourhoods better places to live. It aims to help people protect themselves and their properties and to reduce the fear of crime by means of improved home security, greater vigilance, accurate reporting of suspicious incidents to the police and by fostering a community spirit.

Get in contact with us through the Contact us tab on the main Local Policing Page at the top of this section, and send us what matters to you in your area so we and our partner agencies can help?

Longlevens & Elmbridge