Recovered Stolen Property

Dear All

In June of this year, Thames Valley Police raided a second hand shop reasonable close to the Hampshire border, and recovered a large amount of property, believed to be stolen. Some of the second hand items include garden equipment such as lawn mowers, strimmers, hedgecutters and tools. A number of victims of non-dwelling burglaries and thefts from vehicles found their stolen items listed on eBay being sold by the shop.

The attached document lists items still to be identified, which has been edited to remove some identifying marks. Although there are approx 500 items, it is worth scanning through to see if you think any of the items could be identified by you. Apologies for the quality of the description of some of the entries - it's not my work, and has purely been copied from the list provided!

The Thames Valley officer dealing with this matter will be holding an 'open day' in due course, for victims of crime to look at the property to see if they can identify it. In the meantime, please contact me in the first instance, and I will advise if there is any more information against the item in question, to positively match it against any reported stolen property. Before items are returned, we will need supporting documentation to confirm ownership. For example, I have kept IMEI numbers of mobile phones on the list, which can then be checked against any remaining paperwork a victim may have.

Please e-mail me your contact details, and full details of your stolen items (including the police reference number when you made your report, if available). I will then contact you if we believe there may be a chance the item is yours, with further information about what to do next.

Please feel free to forward to anyone who you know has been a victim of crime where such items have been stolen.

Andy

PC Andy Reid

andrew.reid@hampshire.pnn.police.uk