Public awareness to distraction burglaries – Oxford and Reading

Hi Resident

🚨 Thames Valley Police is issuing a public alert following a series of distraction burglaries reported in Oxford and Reading.

Between 3:30pm and 6pm on Saturday (20/9) and Sunday (21/9) two women knocked on houses on Greyhound Lane, Thame; Yeats Lodge, Thame; Emmer Green, Reading; Tilehurst, Reading and Vicarage Road, Oxford, and offered massages to help back, knee and leg pain, specifically to the elderly, disabled and vulnerable individuals. 

The two women entered the victim’s houses, with one providing the massage whilst the other searched the house.

Items such as jewellery, cash and a Rolex watch have been stolen from residents.

Distraction burglars will pretend to be someone they are not, so it’s important you are aware of the common methods they will use to get you to let them into your property.

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