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December 2017
Lock it or lose it, says PCSO Alicia Harvey Along with PC Jamie Shiels’ statement about the recent thefts (see page 16), I would like to add that on a recent patrol around the Willow Brook Centre I came across, on two separate occasions, multiple bikes that had been left without locks. I was shocked about the owners’ lack of care for their bikes – this doesn’t apply to all young people, just the select few I met on this patrol. They were all aware of the recent increase in bike, thefts yet still didn’t care for their bikes. I explained about bike marking and registering bikes on the immobilise website; hopefully this may have an impact. Thieves do not care about the value of your bike, they will take it if they have the opportunity. I will be taking part in the Bike Fest @ The Stokes event on 6th January (see below). Come and say hello with your bike on that day and I or one of the South Gloucestershire police cadets will mark it up!
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Victim plans bike security advice event A YOUNG victim of bike theft in Bradley Stoke has decided to “make something positive from a negative” by organising a ‘bike security & safe cycling’ event at the town’s Willow Brook shopping centre on Saturday 6th January. Josh Harding had his locked Carrera Vulcan bike stolen from a bike rack at the Willow Brook Centre on 12th September. He says he had worked and saved hard for a whole year to buy his bike, which he had only had for seven weeks when it was stolen. This was the second bike theft to be suffered by Josh’s family within the space of five months, coming after a burglary at their home in April in which a sports bike belonging to Josh’s father was stolen from garage. Josh’s mum Sue, who is supporting him in the organisation of the event said: “The theft of Josh’s bike wiped out 12 months of his hard work at a stroke and made me really angry. I feel we need to channel our energies into something positive and this is why we decided to organise the event.” Full details of the ‘Bike Fest @ The Stokes’ event will appear in our January magazine, delivered from 27th December. Statement from Bradley Stoke Community School We encourage students to wear a helmet if they ride to and from school. Clearly we cannot monitor this outside of school grounds but students are aware that if they are seen not wearing a helmet as they arrive or depart the school grounds then they may be issued with a detention. We take the safeguarding of our students as our top priority. The school policy on students needing to wear cycle helmets has been in place since the school opened. Recently, we have become aware that some students have been avoiding coming in to school on their bikes as they haven’t got their helmets with them, and have left their bikes at the leisure centre. Although we are aware that a number of our students’ bikes have been stolen from the leisure centre, we have no plans to relax our policy on helmet wearing. We take our responsibility to keep young people safe seriously and continue to follow road safety advice which suggests that wearing a bike helmet significantly reduces the risk of a head injury if falling off, or being knocked off, a bike. We know that the purchase of a bike often represents a significant amount of hard work and devotion (from families, and often students themselves) and know how upsetting it can be to have one stolen. We continue to work closely with the community police team to ensure that we share the latest advice in relation to the marking and identification of bikes, and the most effective locks.
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