Ringmaster

A virgin mobile customer recently received a free SMS text message from 88989 asking her simply to reply with the text "OK" which she did. The message mentioned a Helpline 0808 234 1402 which she believed to be a premium rate line and therefore did not try it. Her reply resulted in her receiving a text message, which stated GBP 1.5, and asking her a question about how Christmas was celebrated in Brazil. It also stated that she would receive a maximum of five such messages a day.

The customer contacted Virgin and they investigated advising her immediately to send a text to 88989 in upper case letters "STOP ALL". In reply she received confirmation that her membership had been cancelled. Soon afterward Virgin got back to her with information which led to her discovering that the beneficiary of the money raised is a company called FUN MOBILE with contact email: support@winstuffhereuk.com and a Helpline 0808 234 1402 as before.

Please do not respond to any text messages unless you know the sender. If you receive a message of this nature and are not sure what to do please contact your local Trading Standards for advice about the message

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Crime report

Lady Bay Beat
Damage to vehicle	Rutland Road	2000 27/02/10 - 1000 28/02/10		Punctured tyre
Theft of vehicle	Chatsworth Road	1900 - 2300 02/03/10		Took and drove away
Theft	Gertrude Road	2330 03/03/10 - 1030 04/03/10		Force door to caravan to gain access - stole property
Burglary - dwelling	Edward Road	1845 - 2045 05/03/10	*	Opened insecure door to gain access - stole property

* was the offence simply avoidable?

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Police cuts? Photo-call of residents

Whether you are a Neighbourhood Watch coordinator or not you may wish to print the current Ringmaster message from the police and frame it! It may become valuable as one of the last messages we will get from Ringmaster which shuts down on April 1st making three people redundant. If you feel strongly about the abrupt cessation of crime figures, messages about scams, distraction burglary,rogue traders etc. then please come along to the next LAG meeting (next Monday, Thursday, April 8th. at All Hallows Church Hall on Pierrepont Rd. at 7-30pm..) when you can voice your opinion to our beat officer, Adrian Bradshaw.

UPDATE - A Nottinghamshire Police spokesman said: "Nottinghamshire Police's strong relationship with Neighbourhood Watch is not going to change. The force has always had a close link with Neighbourhood Watch and we remain committed to working closely with them."

See the Evening Post today - Monday 8th ?

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The end of Ringmaster?

As one of the individuals or organisations currently in receipt of services or information offered by South Notts Police Division, you may be aware of the review of some of these services, that was conducted over the past few months.

In times of increasing financial constraints in both the public and private sectors, we along with our partners have had to critically review the service levels we can continue to offer.

Consequently from the 1st April 2010, the following changes will come into effect:-

The point of contact for Neighbourhood Watch with the police will be through Local Neighbourhood Policing Teams:

Contact details for local police: www.nottinghamshire.police.uk/local/

For routine non-emergency matters, please call 0300 300 99 99 and request to be put through to your local Neighbourhood Policing Team. If a life is in danger, or a crime is in progress please call 999.

Further information on NHW can be resourced from:-

National NHW website: www.mynhw.co.uk/

Crime Data will be available through:-

Police crime data; www.nottinghamshire.police.uk/crime-mapping/

Both the e-mail and voice mail ringmaster message services will be discontinued. ( but not yet -Ed. )

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