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Horsewatch Christmas Menu - 14 Security Measures

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Horsewatch Christmas Menu - 14 Security Measures

Although this was posted in January 2009, this still applies

Thames Valley Horsewatch has brought out a "Christmas menu", consisting of a checklist to help people keep thieves at bay. The menu was sparked off by a recent spate of thefts in the area, in which nine trailers, seven Shetlands, two horseboxes and a large amount of tack have been stolen in the past six weeks.

"There's a lot of it around at the moment," said Thames Valley Horsewatch co-ordinator Helen Evans. The Christmas menu is to jolt people into choosing something positive they can do to prevent themselves becoming a victim of crime," she said. "Also, it's about getting rural communities together - keeping your eyes open and being suspicious of everything."

The menu features 14 security measures, under the headings "starters", "mains" and "dessert", from post-coded saddlery to CCTV to a yard inventory.

Ms Evans points out that by incorporating some of these measures, owners will be assisting police. "It's not just about having stuff stolen, but finding it again," she says. "It's no good you saying you'll recognise your stolen tack. If a policeman, who knows nothing about saddles, stops a white van at 2am in the morning - how will he know who it belongs to? If it has a postcode, he could check to see if there's a crime reference number otherwise he has no reason to hold the suspect."

Yorkshire horse owners have suffered the most of late. The latest Horsewatch Bulletin reports 11 tack thefts in the county during October and November. One raid included 20 saddles, another 14 saddles and 11 bridles, another £30,000 worth of tack. And good security is not always sufficient deterrent. The Horsewatch newsletter advises: "Some thefts are well planned, with thieves arriving with large vehicles large. You can help deter these professionals by varying your daily routines not to be too predictable with your arrival times. And check your fencing. You may find your wire has been cut in readiness for a crime."

HORSEWATCH CHRISTMAS MENU

Starters

Freeze brand for horse
Post-coded saddlery
Security tagging for trailer
Tracker for the horsebox

Mains

Better padlocks
Stronger chains
Security lights
Alarm
CCTV
Postcode for roof of box/trailer

Dessert

Description of everything written down
Yard awareness of security plans
Emergency numbers to hand
Complete security review
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A Christmas Thank You ...

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Dear All

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP.

Christmas is a time where we could all do with some extra money, and you are always so generous and helpful, making me and my mates welcome at your own expense.

Take this week, we’d been watching this yard and saw where the house key was left on the ledge in the porch, and the tack room keys in the hanging basket so we went in when the school run was on. We knew no-one would be there for at least half an hour - plenty of time… We were saved the job of loading gear on the lorry as no-one could be bothered to unload it after the show (nice one!) If the box had a tracker, we’d dump it, but it didn’t – most don’t. We’d been making friends with the dogs, which always get shouted at and shut away ‘cos someone thinks they are after the cat, when they are really doing their job. The Labrador puppy was a bonus – he’ll fetch a pretty penny. The rugs hanging over the doors were nice, all new and not a mark on them. ‘Course if they’d been used, and on the horses we would have nicked ‘e, and then come back and had the new ones which wouldn’t have been marked anyway!

Great having a sign on the door to show us where the gear is stashed. Nice new reinforced tack room door, lovely hinges we could’ve unscrewed from the outside if we didn’t have the key, which we didn’t need – we just climbed the gap in the eves between the stable next to the tack room, full of more posh saddles and bridles, not a mark on them either. You lot make our job so easy! We didn’t bother about the CCTV, we just used the broom handle to turn the camera to the sky, same with the lights, and if there were alarms we’d remove them and dump them into the water trough. No pretty pictures of us then and no one altered.

Using the handy wheelbarrow we could cart the stuff off and put it in the trailer. Cheap locks and clamps always easy to remove with a jemmy. And who left the keys in the quad bike? That really was kind. Got that on the lorry no problem. So that was our haul for the day; horsebox loaded with gear and quad bike, trailer loaded with tack, rugs and wheelbarrows, and a puppy to boot! Off to do another one down the road, it’s got lovely security at the front, so we’ll just drive round the back where it will soon be pitch black, lift the gate off the hinges and we’ll be in and out before you know it. We’ll mark this property though, ‘cos we know that the insurance will pay out without question and not ask for proof of security on the new stuff – we’ll put you down for another visit in three months!

Have a lovely Christmas, you can be certain we will!

Regards,

Mr T. Leaf, MR Rich Pickings, Mr Grabbitt, and the boss, “General” Bazz Tarde.



If you hadn’t guessed by now, this is a “spoof” letter from Horsewatch

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