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Our site has an 8 foot security fence around it, heavy duty high gates and a good quality lock and we still get very regular thefts.
The problem is that it is not so much missing tools but the damage done looking to see if you have anything.
The weak point is that everybody has a key, and we have a high turnover of new allotment holders how in the main start and then never return. Or do they
Personally I think our problem is with one or two tenants who seem to turn up at odd times, do no apparent work on their plots but always seem to go home with bags of stuff.
We do get PCSOs visiting but on a 150+ plts iste, quite how they are supposed to know who is acting legitimately or not, I don't know. Little else the council can do.
The thieves I can almost cope with but I must have upset someone as they like to have their little laughs at times. I had spend hours washing up hundreds of 3" pots, sorted them into sizes and placed into a shed, all disappeared.
My Blackberry plant, sprayed with weed killer.
Every last strawberry picked, even the small green ones.
Runner beans stripped
On my potting bench, I left halway through potting up plants, came back next day, everything tipped out and pots and trays stacked up.
Too many instances to write about, lucky I'm an obstinate old ***
I used to say, "I'd love to catch them in the act", but no I don't think I would actually, I would be in far more trouble than them.
The problem is that it is not so much missing tools but the damage done looking to see if you have anything.
The weak point is that everybody has a key, and we have a high turnover of new allotment holders how in the main start and then never return. Or do they
Personally I think our problem is with one or two tenants who seem to turn up at odd times, do no apparent work on their plots but always seem to go home with bags of stuff.
We do get PCSOs visiting but on a 150+ plts iste, quite how they are supposed to know who is acting legitimately or not, I don't know. Little else the council can do.
The thieves I can almost cope with but I must have upset someone as they like to have their little laughs at times. I had spend hours washing up hundreds of 3" pots, sorted them into sizes and placed into a shed, all disappeared.
My Blackberry plant, sprayed with weed killer.
Every last strawberry picked, even the small green ones.
Runner beans stripped
On my potting bench, I left halway through potting up plants, came back next day, everything tipped out and pots and trays stacked up.
Too many instances to write about, lucky I'm an obstinate old ***
I used to say, "I'd love to catch them in the act", but no I don't think I would actually, I would be in far more trouble than them.
......I Received an email from HM last night saying the tool store had been broken into & all the power tools stolen, Rotorvators, Mowers, Strimmers plus more I am assuming. All of this after a wrought iron gate & CCTV installed. Maybe HM will post more details.
Anything on the CCTV that might help identify these parasites?
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