Police provide residents With free Bike Marking in bid to crack down on crime

by Hannah Jones

WARRINGTON police have supplied residents free bike marking and registration in a bid to scale back theft within the space.

The scheme, led as a part of the Safer Streets marketing campaign, has been funded by means of a £550,000 authorities grant that was put aside to be able to sort out crime and enhance group security.
Neighborhood PCSO, Kieran Henderson mentioned: “The bike register scheme is an absolute necessity in my private opinion for plenty of completely different causes.

“It nearly removes the power to promote the bike on so makes it massively redundant to a thief.
“Expertise tells me that in case your bike is registered with the scheme, there may be [also]a extremely good likelihood it is going to flip up.”

We’re providing residents of Warrington FREE bike marking, if you need your bike marked please electronic mail us with the data on the connected pic to safer.streets@cheshire.pnn.police.uk

We are going to register you bike with @bikeregister and ship your equipment to you dwelling handle. pic.twitter.com/AAguWkZPsK

— Warrington Police (@PoliceWarr) March 15, 2021

Residents throughout Warrington are welcoming the transfer, with many hoping the scheme will additional scale back the declining bike theft figures inside the city centre.
Julie Chadwick, of Bewsey, skilled bike theft firsthand when her son’s bicycle was stolen after he visited a buddy’s home on Battersby Lane.
Ms Chadwick mentioned: “My insurance coverage wouldn’t cowl it as a result of it wasn’t on the home, there’s no help.
“He’d been out on it about 3 or 4 instances, it was model new, we work arduous for what we’ve acquired and it’s simply actually annoying.
“I consider persons are getting mugged for them too, fortunately my son didn’t get harm.”
It comes after Police groups in Penketh warned residents to be vigilant following plenty of thefts from backyard sheds.

With many struggling by the hands of thieves, some could also be unable to cowl the prices of substitute, or within the case of some failed makes an attempt, restore.
Bike Register, the police authorized nationwide Cycle database, presently have over 1 million bikes on the register, giving police a concise document of possession and a higher likelihood of asset restoration within the occasion of a theft.
Sean Quinlivan, a 56-year-old resident from Croft, determined to register his son’s bike after discovering it mendacity out by the facet of their home one too many instances.
Mr Quinlivan defined his resolution, saying: “Now that the climate’s getting higher, he’s out on the bike on a regular basis.
“However like all children, he leaves it out, and I’m simply nervous somebody’s going to see a straightforward alternative to take it.”