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Tatsfield Policing March Update
LOCAL POLICE NEWS
Further to the article in last month’s Magazine, we have seen a decrease in shed breaks within the local community. Officers from your local Safer Neighbourhoods Team have combined resources with the local Safer Neighbourhoods Team from the Metropolitan Police to tackle the increased burglaries over the Christmas period. This joint working has been very successful and led to five arrests for burglaries and auto crime. Whilst we have had a limited success I must remind local residents to be vigilant and report anything suspicious to the police.
We have also received information of suspicious activity in and around various farms
and commercial rural properties. The local team commenced joint patrols with farm
owners and gamekeepers on private land using various off-
For further information about crime prevention please contact me or contact your local Safer Neighbourhood Team. If you see any suspicious person or activity or an unfamiliar vehicle in your street, report it immediately on 0845 125 2222.
If you have any information you want to share but would prefer to remain anonymous,
please contact CrimeStoppers on 0800 555 111.
PC2459 Martin Bassom (Tel: 0845 125 2222)
PCSO Nick White
I am the new PCSO for the area of Tatsfield. I have been out and about in the area since December and so some of you may have already met me. I will be continuing to work alongside Nick White as he is still introducing me to the area and community so you will meet me some time in the near future if you haven’t done so already. If you have any issues with anything regarding your community, please do not hesitate to contact one of us. I look forward to seeing you.
PCSO Rachel Kettell
KEEP YOUR DOGS UNDER PROPER CONTROL
There are two main offences that relate to this and they are section 3 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 and section 2 of the Dogs Act 1871.
It is an offence under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 to allow your dog to be dangerously out of control in a public place. This applies to the owner of the dog or the person that is in charge of the dog at the time of an incident.
Dangerously out of control can be on or off the lead and does not have to have caused injury, but may apply if any person has grounds for reasonable apprehension that it will cause injury. If it does cause injury to any person it then becomes aggravated offence.
If your dog is allowed to enter a place which is not a public place but where it is not permitted to be and while it is there it causes injuries to any person or there are grounds for reasonable apprehension that it will do so you are guilty of an offence, or if the dog injures any person, an aggravated offence is committed.
Under this Act police have a power to seize the dog/s if in a public place and we can apply to a Magistrates Court for a warrant to enter a private place and seize the dog/s with force if authorized by them.
Under the Dogs Act 1871 any court of summary jurisdiction may take cognisance of a complaint that a dog is dangerous and not kept under proper control and if it appears to the court having cognisance that such a dog is dangerous, the court may make an order in a summary way directing the dog to be kept by the owner under proper control. This Act relates to private places including home.
When the case gets to court they can order the destruction order for the dog and may order the offender to be disqualified, for such period as the court thinks fit, from custody of a dog. They may also specify the measures to be taken for keeping the dog under proper control, whether by muzzling, keeping on a lead in a public place, excluding it from specified places and in relation to male dogs if it is felt the dog would be less dangerous if neutered the court may order this.
PC Peter Davis, Surrey Police Dog Section
