Bikes recovered by Hampshire Police!

Smudge446

Hampshire police have recently recoverd 58 stolen bikes and are trying to identify 34 of them. If your bike is valued over £700 and has been stolen since October 2010 from either Hampshire, Surrey, Thames Valley or the London area send a picture, crime reference number, frame number/distinguishing marks to richard.smith@hampshire.pnn.police.uk from Aldershot Priority Crime Unit.

Chris`I

Bit of a thread ressurection - but I had this forwarded on from a colleague (via a friend - I'm not in the Police!) so thought it would be apt to post it up

Bike thefts information

I am investigating a series of mountain bike thefts from around the
Farnborough area, which has resulted in us arresting three people and
recovering approx 60 frames. I am now in the process of identifying them.
Many have been reported to Hampshire Police, and these are currently being
identified by their lawful owners.

There are some very nice carbon frames which may not have been reported to
us or may have been reported to another police force as we are close to the
border with Surrey Police and Thames Valley Police.

From what we have recovered the value of the original complete bikes is
currently estimated to be at least £90,000. Of which I think I have approx
£50,000 unidentified.

What was happening the bikes were being stolen, stripped and the components
sold on, making things difficult, however the frames were not and I am now
in the process of trying to identify the owners.

Could people please contact me if they have had a bike stolen from within 30
miles of Farnborough valued over £600 (MTB, Hybrid, Racer) since October
last year? If that is the case, I'd appreciate if they could email me with
crime reference number, make, model, colour and frame number and anything
distinguishable about the frame.

Just to give you a sample of the frames, I have: a Giant trance X and Giant
trance X1, a Scott Scale 35, a Scott Genius, a Scott spark 40, a Trek EX9
and EX9.5 a Scott G-zero and a black and gold S-works, all of which I know
are someone's pride and joy.

PC 22675 Richard Smith
Aldershot Priority Crime Unit
Hampshire Constabulary
richard.smith@hampshire.pnn.police.uk

cried2dream

i wish we had someone like you here in wrexham looking at bike crimes, but ive bin told that wrexham police are looking into my bike thats been stolen but also told they are also short staffed and then i'm wondering why im seeing thieves riding around on stolen bikes around town, plus the chances of getting my specialized enduro downhill bike is now looking very slim, wrexham is not too big, but the amount of bikes that are going missing is seriously ridicilous! they got to be stopped somewhere down the line! just hope cc tv picks something up