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Published:
April 22, 2006
Thirteen
per cent drop in crime 'delights' Burnham-On-Sea Police chief
Burnham-On-Sea
Police say they are winning the war on crime after unveiling new
figures that show there has been a 13 per cent drop in incidents
in the town over the past year.
Inspector
Dale Baker (pictured below) and Sergeant Roger Tolley unveiled
the figures at this week's annual town council meeting.
Insp
Baker said: "I'm delighted this is the fifth year we can
give you good figures about crime in Burnham."
"Total
crime has fallen from 2,587 incidents last year to 2,250 this
time; a thirteen per cent decrease in the sector as a whole."
 He
added that house burglaries in Burnham had fallen 29 per cent
to 94, while other burglaries had sunk by 23 per cent to 182.
Thefts
of motor vehicles have been cut by five per cent to 91, while
thefts from motor vehicles dropped by 28 per cent to 169.
He
cautioned, though, that, thefts of in-car satellite navigation
systems had been on the rise recently and advised Burnham motorists
who own them to be on their guard and lock them away out of sight
when not in use.
Inspector
Baker also said it was "quite understandable that people
in the town had been concerned about several high profile robberies
in Burnham last year."
He
described the two
armed raids on the town's Tesco supermarket as "serious"
and said a file had been given to the Crime Prosecution Service
in relation to the first raid, and that "we are confident
we know who was behind the second raid."
Investigations
into the recent violent raid
on a petrol station in the town had also yielded "valuable
information."
On
neighbourhood policing numbers, he reported that Burnham and Highbridge
had recently been allocated an extra officer, leaving it with
a total of four.
Inspector
Baker said that he was "extremely confident that the number
of PCSOs in the sector will soon increase to 14," and he
added: "I expect Burnham and Highbridge will then have six
PCSOs in total."
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