The Bobby on the Bay Life Beat: Crime prevention in the community
Evening all: Retired police officer, Paul Smith, has joined Bay Life to keep tabs on new crime prevention in the community, posting about community security and crime matters.
He served for 24 years in the Police in Brighton and was a Scots Guards musician. Paul was a well known bobby on the beat in Brighton and moved, with wife Annie, to Beachlands in Pevensey Bay. The couple are now based in Eastbourne, but are regular visitors to the Bay on a weekly basis, the place they say is their first love, in particular Beachlands.
Dividing his time between a part-time position working at a local Express superstore and his passion for research into genealogy, he could often be seen in our local library. Paul is also working on his first novel for children, which is to be dedicated to his two sons, which he describes as a kind of ‘Watership Down’ based in Sussex Downland near Brighton with the working draft name “Sweet Hill’.
He says “in the absence of a community beat officer here in Pevensey Bay, I am posting a kind of crime prevention section, one of my jobs was to give crime prevention talks to various bodies.” With a nod and wink to his sense of public duty as a policeman, and with characteristic wit, he posts to the Bay Life web platform online, 6:30pm on Saturday night, the same time Dixon of Dock Green was broadcast on BBC1. The programme was voted second most popular programme on British TV in 1961.
Bobby on the Bay Life Beat is available to browse here online and to read in the Pevensey Bay Journal.
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In Dixon Of Dock Green, Jack Warner as Dixon is a “bobby” on the beat–an ordinary, lowest-ranking policeman on foot patrol. With the inevitable heart of gold…
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Paul Smith: Pevensey Bay: Bobby on the Bay Life Beat
Episode 1: Garages
Episode 2: Artifice Burglary
Episode 3: Theft or Burglary
Episode 4: Aggravated burglary and similar offences including robbery
Here are his thoughts on Theft or Burglary, to offer a taste of what he is doing by keeping tabs on crime in the community.
Theft or Burglary?
The definition of theft is:a person who appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it.
In a previous edition about burglary we saw that the definition starts off”where a person enters a building or part of a building as a trespasser………….”
Does this apply to your garage or shed when it is separate to your house or bungalow. No it doesnt it’s not a burglary.
For instance if you take your shopping out of the boot of your car and leave it outside your front door then pop indoors to get something and then come outside to find your shopping gone it is theft.
Imagine you have a porch on the front of your home but you have left the door open and inside is your shopping or a sports bag or similar.You have taken some of the frozen items to your freezer in the garage and come back and find the items in the porch have been stolen. Technically this is a burglary because the offender has put his arm into the porch to steal.It is more than likely that the Police will crime this as a theft.
In the theft definition it says” permanently deprive the other of it”.
When was the last time a thief returned what he had stolen?
Anything outside the property or in a shed at the bottom of the garden or in a garage not attached to the property is a theft. This includes car,motorcycles or bicycles outside your property.
Insurance companies are very careful with the difference of theft and burglary always carefully read the small print to see if there is a financial difference between items stolen within and without your property.
Next issue will be about aggravated burglary and similar offences including robbery.
