Injury RTC
Tue, 2008-03-25
Around 8:10pm on Tuesday, Police attended a reported road traffic collision resulting in injury on North Shore Road in Devonshire near the junction with Cable Hill, involving a motorcycle and a car. It appears that the car was traveling east on North Shore Road and the motorcycle was traveling in the opposite direction when the car attempted to make a right hand turn and the vehicles collided. The rider of the motorcycle, a 22 year old Pembroke man, sustained a broken left leg. The driver of the car, a 48 year old Hamilton parish woman, was not injured. The motorcycle was extensively damaged while the car received extensive damage to its left side. Inquiries into this incident are underway.
Burglary
At 6:05pm on Tuesday, Police attended a reported burglary at a Paget Lane, Paget residence. On arrival officers spoke with the complainant who stated that sometime between 7:20am and 5:35pm that day, an unknown culprit gained entry into his home while it was unoccupied. The culprit stole a quantity of cash and two gold watches. Inquiries into this incident are underway.
Around 6pm on Tuesday, Police attended a reported burglary at a Friswells Lane, Pembroke residence. On arrival officers spoke with the complainants who stated that sometime between 7:50am and 5:45pm that day, an unknown culprit gained entry into their home while it was unoccupied. The culprit stole a 20” Sylvania flat screen TV. Inquiries into this incident are underway.
Around 4pm on Tuesday, Police attended a reported burglary at a Knapton Estates Road, Smiths parish residence. On arrival officers spoke with the complainant who stated that an unknown culprit or culprits had gained entry into his home while he was overseas. The culprit(s) stole a black 52” Samsung TV. Inquiries into this incident are underway.
Advisory
The Bermuda Police Service is noticing an increase in the theft of expensive items and electronic equipment from various homes around the island (e.g. flat screen TVs, laptop computers, jewelry etc.). Therefore we are reminding members of the public not to leave boxes outside their residences which would indicate to a potential burglar what their recent purchases were; close their curtains at night and to contact Police immediately if any suspicious individuals or vehicles are seen in their neighbourhoods.
Also, we are encouraging members of the public to keep a copy of the serial numbers for all the items they have purchased, so that in the event they are stolen and later recovered, the items can be returned to their rightful owners.
In addition, we are advising all residents not to let anyone into their homes that they do not know; unless they can verify the persons purpose for being there and/or the company they work for. If in doubt, challenge the individual or individuals to show some form of identification and contact the company they claim to work for directly, to ascertain whether or not their claims are legitimate.
