Distraction Burglary (689)

Police in Doncaster are trying to trace a man after an alleged distraction burglary at Emley House on St James Street.

The incident happened on Wednesday, 11 January around 4pm after the occupant, an elderly woman, was followed into the communal area of the flats by a man.

The man then tricked his way into her flat by saying he needed to check the water pressure.

Police are appealing for help to trace two suspects who stole jewellery from her after gaining entry to her Bristol home.

The incident happened at about 7.30pm on Saturday January 14 at a property in Parsons Street in Bedminster.

Police have released images of a man they would like to speak to after six women were approached by a bogus shop security guard.

There have been six reported suspicious incidents to date - four on Monday (9 January 2012) and two yesterday (12 January 2012) - in which a man has approached females of Chinese appearance as they have arrived home after shopping trips.

Four months on from a burglary in Chelmsford, police are renewing their appeal for information and urging people to look closely at an e-fit of man wanted in connection with the crime.

Detectives need to trace two men claiming to be gardeners who stole a four-figure sum of cash from a 62-year-old woman at a house on Longfield Road on Friday, September 9, 2011.

The incident happened in West Bay area at around 3pm on Sunday 4 December Kent Police has issued e-fits of two people they would like to speak to in connection with a distraction burglary in Herne Bay.

Detectives are investigating after a small amount of cash was stolen from the home of a 90-year-old man at about 3pm on Sunday 4 December 2011.

Detectives in Poole are appealing for witnesses and anyone with any information to come forward after distraction burglars stole money from two elderly people in the Hamworthy area of the town - with e-fits of the offenders being released.

Thames Valley Police has released an e-fit of a man they would like to speak to in connection with a distraction burglary in Slough.

The incident took place around 10am on Thursday (8/12), in Hillary Road, Langley, when an 81-year-old woman received a knock at her front door.

Police in Cheltenham are appealing for witnesses after three bogus callers targeted a home in the town.

At around 4.40pm on Thursday December 1, a man called at the home of an elderly couple on Buckingham Avenue in Cheltenham.

He claimed to be from the gasboard and said there had been an emergency in the road and he needed to check their gas and water.

Detectives are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward after a distraction burglary in the town - with an e-fit being released.

Detectives are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward after a distraction burglary in the town - with an e-fit being released.

The incident happened just before 6pm on Friday 18 November 2011, at an address along Riverdale Lane in Christchurch where a man asked the occupant to check a wall upstairs for water damage.

Police are appealing for information following a distraction burglary at the home of an elderly woman at an address near Princes Street in Nuneaton at 9.45am on Thursday 1 December.

An unknown male called at the woman's home and told her that as a result of a water leak at neighbouring property it was necessary for the water in her home to be turned off.

Police are releasing a CCTV image of a man wanted in connection with a distraction burglary at an address on Bromford Road, Bromford.

On 7 August 2011, a man knocked on a 78-year-old woman's door claiming to be looking for her neighbour.

As she left the room to look for a pen and paper he took her handbag containing her purse and bank cards.

Saddlery and instruments worth a total of around £1,500 were discovered stolen today (Friday, 25 November) following a break-in at stables at Dodford, near Bromsgrove.

The thieves also caused around £500 while breaking into a building where the items were stored in Warbage Lane some time between 12.30pm yesterday (Thursday) and 10.15am this morning.

Police have issued the images of two people they would like to talk to following the report of a distraction burglary at a shop in Blaby.

The incident happened at approximately 12pm on Saturday October 22, when the owner of the shop was distracted by a man asking various questions about items inside the shop.

Police have released the image of a man they wish to talk to following a distraction burglary in the Winchester Avenue area of Leicester.

The incident happened at approximately 2pm on Tuesday September 6, when the victim, a woman in her eighties, was approached by a man at her home who claimed to be a bailiff collecting money.