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Good evening, I'm David Allard with the news in the South. | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
Traders in a Berkshire town say they're worried | :00:14. | :00:14. | |
by what appears to be a new police policy towards shoplifting. | :00:15. | :00:22. | |
At a meeting with Hungerford Town Council, a Thames Valley Police | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
officer said they would not routinely turn out to incidents | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
where less than ?100 worth of items had been taken. | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
The police have since tried to reassure traders | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
but some have been left confused and concerned, | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
It was here at Hungerford Town Hall that councillors were told that | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
under a so-called new delivery model, police would no longer turn | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
particularly those of goods worth less than ?100. | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
I think it was a bit of a shock, obviously. | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
There are a number of smaller retailers I know | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
that are not on the breadline but they struggle from time to time and | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
?90 worth of stuff stolen from a shop could well | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
Hungerford has a host of independent traders. | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
The owner of this antiques arcade was concerned to hear he may | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
not get help dealing with a shoplifting incident. | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
If the police are not going to come out for anything under ?100, | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
if we do have somebody, how do I handle it? | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
Do I hold onto him and then phone the police or do I take him down | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
to the police station or what do I do? | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
It is very grey so that is the reason I was surprised | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
Hungerford lost its police station over a year ago | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
so there were already fears about a lack of police presence. | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
Now the Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner says | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
he will raise the comment about shoplifting policy | :01:45. | :01:45. | |
If we didn't investigate shoplifting up to ?100, | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
If people shoplift and nobody does anything about it, | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
So I totally disagree with that comment and I will be taking it up | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
But I'm sure that was not the intention. | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
Thames Valley Police have now tried to reassure the town council | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
They say that the reference to ?100 was arbitrary and does not | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
But they go on to say that clearly police attendance at incidents | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
is prioritised according to the prevailing threat or harm | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
to people and property and the associated risks. | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
They also say any suitable lines of inquiry will be pursued. | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
A man's been arrested following a fire on the roof of Guys Marsh | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
64 inmates had to be moved to safety after the fire broke out | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
Dorset Police say a 29-year-old male prisoner is being questioned | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life. | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
The first of more than 100 wind turbines has been installed | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
this weekend eight miles off the Sussex coast. | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
Work is continuing night and day to construct the Rampion | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
offshore wind farm, which will provide electricity | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
for more than 340,000 homes from next year. | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
Each tower is 80 metres high, and each turbine | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
Search and rescue teams have been training in Wiltshire this | :03:10. | :03:17. | |
weekend in a huge exercise, designed to test how they respond | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
Recent figures show police in England and Wales receive a call | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
every 90 seconds about a person who's gone missing. | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
This is a mock-up of a search for a high-risk missing person. | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
He's a 46-year-old man and this morning he left a suicide note. | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
The police have traced him here - Coate Water Park in Swindon. | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
More than 100 members of the emergency services and voluntary | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
They are searching land and also this vast expanse of water. | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
There is a huge lake here in the park. | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
To narrow down such a search, they rely on statistics and research. | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
One in five missing people have mental health problems. | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
We are using an international database to look at what they are | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
likely to go and areas they are normally found in so we can | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
target our resources on the right places as early as possible. | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
Calls about missing people are rising. | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
Wiltshire's Chief Constable is the national police | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
There is a lot more people that are trying to pull vulnerable | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
young people away from their families. | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
There are so many pressures on people within society. | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
The hardships, people living in deprivation, people who are | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
Those add up to a toxic mix of pressure in our society and is | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
probably the reason why we are seeing a huge increase in the | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
With a higher demand on rescue teams, they're aiming | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
In this practise exercise, the fake subject's found just in time. | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
They hope, as a result, real lives will be | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
Time for the weather with Holly Green. | :05:03. | :05:11. | |
It's been a bit of a miserable Sunday but at least we have some | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
Starry skies developing overhead and it turns quite chilly. | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
In fact, we could see a touch of frost for some prone cold spots. | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
A nippier start tomorrow morning than we have seen of late but also | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
Good spells of sunshine through the course of the morning | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
and a little bit more cloud tending to wend and as we head | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
A mild day as well, temperatures getting up | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
to 14 or 15 degrees, maybe even a shade higher. | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
After that, cloudier skies develop for Tuesday | :05:44. | :05:44. | |
Our next news is tonight at a 10:20pm. | :05:45. | :06:08. | |
Hello, the weather was hit-and-miss today across the UK, bit of | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
sunshine, a few spots of rain, the skies are clearing | :06:15. | :06:16. |