Berrington Village Pump Edition 146 Feb - Mar 2020

News from your Shropshire Councillor
Claire Wild
HAVE YOU GOT YOUR SMART WATER?
During the summer of 2019 Atcham & Berrington Parish Councils received a
presentation giving details of the Police and Crime Commissioner’s initiative to offer subsidised
SmartWater © property marking kits to parish councils.
The scheme offered the kits to parish councils at a substantially reduced cost. Additionally if the council took
up the scheme and offered the kits to all residents free of charge and over 70% of residents registered to
take part in the scheme then a package of additional measures would be provided. The additional measures
included the erection of signs at key locations which indicate that the scheme is in place. Criminals entering
the parish will then know that the vast majority of households in the area have been supplied with these kits
and therefore may consider going elsewhere rather than stealing valuables which are easily traced.
There was unanimous support for this project from councillors and residents and, if you haven’t already
done so, you can now collect and register YOUR FREE SMARTWATER © PROPERTY MARKING KIT. If you would
like more information on SmartWater © please visit www.smartwater.com
Many communities within Shropshire and elsewhere have already taken up this scheme and are reporting
reductions in the number of burglaries, some as much as by 80%. There have already been a number of
successes locally with property being returned following a burglary thanks to the valuables being marked
with SmartWater © . I do hope you will join the scheme and make it a success in our parishes, we have almost
reached the 70% figure in both parishes and the parish councils and I are keen that as many residents as
possible take up the free offer.
To get your SmartWater © kit please call 01743 718695 or email the parish clerk at
atchampc@gmail.com or berringtonpc@gmail.com and arrange collection or drop
off. The collection of the kit and registering it against your address will take a
maximum of 10 minutes.
Best wishes,
Claire
t:: 01743 255 884 m: 07582 002 100 E-mail:
claire.wild@shropshire.gov.uk
POLICE CONTACT INFORMATION
Our Local Police Team: Tel: 0300 333 3000 ext. 69008. There is also a team e-mail address:
shrewsburyre.snt@westmercia.pnn.police.uk
Website: www.westmerciapolice.uk Facebook/Twitter @ShrewsburyCops
You can always contact Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111 if you wish to remain anonymous.
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