14/02/2012….Stolen registration plates & fuel thefts in Thame

[M 14/02/021] THIS is a Community Message from Thames Valley Police: Theft of registration plates and fuel in Thame – There has been theft of registration plates and fuel from vehicles in Thame.

Registration plates have been stolen from vehicles at the following locations:

Between 8th and 9th February – Vane Road and The Maltings, High Street, Thame.

10th February – Priest End, Thame.

Between 3rd and 7th February – Priest End, Thame.

Offender(s) are using some of these stolen plates to fix to other vehicles, which are then used to fill up with fuel from petrol stations and leave without paying.

Diesel has been stolen from a business premises in Dormer Road, Thame between 10th and 13th February. Offender(s) smashed a fuel cap on a lorry and stole half a tank of diesel.

If you require any crime prevention advice or would like to obtain tamper proof fixing screws for vehicle registration plates, please contact your Crime Reduction Advisor Malcolm Wills on 01491 821519.

If you have any information relating to this message, please call the police on the new national single non-emergency telephone number 101 and state you are responding to a Ringmaster message, or call 999 for crime in progress. Please report anyone acting suspiciously in or around vehicles to the police as soon as possible.

Alternatively if you have information but wish to remain anonymous, please call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

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SOURCE: Thames Valley Police

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