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Feel Safe with a Key Safe
Many people who are either alone at home or elderly, choose to have key safes installed. What are key safes? And how can they help?
Read MoreScams and Rogue Traders
For Professionals and Volunteers Please keep this document handy for reference if a service user asks you for information or advice about scams and rogue traders and to signpost users to organisations that can help. For further information and support, please contact Charlotte Homent, Community Protection Manager on 01954 284635 or Charlotte.Homent@cambridgeshire.gov.uk. Other resources can…
Read MoreNow I feel safer
A lady in her mid-eighties in a large village to the south west of Cambridge had heard about The Cambridgeshire Bobby Scheme from a friend of hers and been told what a wonderful service it was. She phoned us to request a visit for herself. On arrival I found it was a bungalow and there…
Read MoreBack door smashed
A lady and gentleman in their late sixties, in a village north of Cambridge, had been on holiday and came back to find they had been the victims of a burglary. The police were called and the details were passed to The Bobby Scheme. When I visited, I found that the glass in the lower…
Read MoreBurglary victims
We had a referral from the police asking us to visit a couple who had been victims of a burglary. They had been away for one night and returned home to find that a rear ground floor window had been forced, entry gained and jewellery and other items stolen. I first had a chat with…
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