An appeal for information

On Wednesday 22nd of July 2009 a Yorkshire terrier was stolen from a Red Suzuki Vitara. The owner parked in Davies Way in Lymm and headed into Gavin Laidlaw's dental practice at 2.00pm. At 2.20pm Von Threlfall returned to find her car had been broken into and her Yorkshire Terrier, who is 10lbs and answers to the name Daz or Dazzie, gone.

Planned robbery?

The thieves took the lock off the passenger door. They left behind her other dog a Staffordshire bull terrier and all other valuables such as the satellite navigation system. On the front of the windscreen a calling card was left. The illustration was the front page of the Beano with Dennis the Menace on it behind bars with two dogs on the front. This suggests that the incident may have been planned.

Von says: “I remember on the day of the incident three guys laughing and joking on one of the canal boats. They looked over and smiled, that could be one route to his disappearance”.

On the day of the disappearance another passerby reported seeing a dark black or dark blue Vauxhall Zafira. The owner was agitated and unable to get out because of Von’s Jeep. This vehicle may be connected to the incident.

A small white van possible a renault kango with two middle aged blokes in high visibility jackets may also have possible links to the crime

Von is determined to find her dog and has circulated leaflets in the area, been to the Cheshire Dogs home, Manchester Dogs home, and also posted appeals on the internet. She will be circulating leaflets in the area again very shortly.

Reward

The owner would like to hear from anyone who may have seen anything on the day of the incident or who may have had animals stolen. There is a £200 reward for any information leading to his safe return or his whereabouts. Von says she won’t give up.

Contact Von on: 01925 454298 or 07730 660 975.

Driver appeals for information

On Saturday night (6/02/2010) at about 6.45pm a silver Audi TT was in traffic at junction 7 west bound on the M56, coming up to the slip road, when a car collided and drove off.

Can you help?

The owner of the Audi TT said:

• "As he was going so fast I could only give a small part of registration and rough description of the vehicle to police so I can't trace the driver. There's damage down the driver’s side of car and the wing mirror is smashed. If the car had collided from behind it could have been fatal for the dogs that were in the boot (hatch) of car".

The car in question was pale green, possibly ford, hatchback or estate, first part of registration was M56 or MS6 and there is a 0 or o in the rest of the number plate.

If you have any information in relation to this incident please contact Bev on 07970 772994.

A message from Gary McIntyre from Warrington South Police

We have continued to Police the South area robustly this month and have continued the excellent performance. I have always believed that with the style of Community Policing we have employed over the past 8 months we could reduce crime below 200. Last month we came close with 209 crimes reported and it is very pleasing to report to you that we have reduced crime again this month to 195 and our target was 259 a reduction of 64 crimes. We have detected 69 of those crimes which is 35.4%.

To break this down further for you Violent crime is reduced by 13.4% and we have detected 71.4% of those crimes. Burglary is down by 19% and vehicle crime is down by 50%. Criminal Damage is down by 18.3% and once again we have reduced Anti Social behaviour in our area by 9% this month. This is particularly pleasing as the community tell us that Anti Social behaviour is what causes a lot of the issues in our area. This is the 4th month we have reduced ASB and it is once again because we listen to what you tell us and take the right action.

Challenge ahead

The challenge for us is to now maintain this level of reduction and I could do with some more snow to help us. Crime rates increase as quickly as they come down so I am looking to keep my staff out on the streets working with the community.

We are continuing to drill down into the community issues and set monthly ward priorities. You will soon see that the Cheshire Police website will change and there will be a lot of information on it for the community to get updates about what we are doing and why. It will include all our meetings and how we set our priorities for each ward. We currently take information from the community via questionnaires, meetings, forums, surgeries and compare our crime information and intelligence and set the priorities to target any issues.

This process is working very well as you can see with the above performance however I want to see more of the community and I have decided that I will be holding monthly Policing Pledge meetings in and around the areas. This will be to set your priorities and report back to you what we have done so far. The meeting will be Police only and will really focus on you as a community. I have put the Policing Pledge below so you can see what we as a service should be delivering. I will be at the meeting with some of your team. We will tell you what we are doing and why and I want you to tell me if that is what you want.

The first meeting will be held at:

Lymm Community Centre 1 Bridgewater Street, Lymm. WA13 0AB.

On Tuesday the 16th of February 2010 at 7pm.

This meeting is for residents of Lymm / Grappenhall and Thellwall wards.