Out of the Blue community policing

APPARENTLY one in three men wait until Christmas Eve to do their shopping.

Please don’t leave it so late when it comes to getting your priority surveys completed – if you can spare five minutes between shopping trips, use this link and have your say. https:// www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ PurbeckEmail. What you say enables us to target both our resources and patrols.

During the period October 4 to November 4 we dealt with a total of 404 incidents in Purbeck, of which 159 were recorded crimes resulting in 103 arrests.

As Christmas is fast approaching, we like to reiterate our crime reduction advice around burglaries both residential and shed/beech huts. Burglaries traditionally rise around Christmas with crooks on the lookout for those expensive items bought as presents or festive treats.

We would also strongly recommend those with heating oil tanks review their security as we tend to see this type of theft rise as people fill their tanks ready for winter.

As we draw nearer to the winter/festive period we will be and pushing this campaign on social media and during other events we hold. We always encourage people to join Home Watch/ Neighbourhood Watch or even consider becoming a co-ordinator. Home Watch isn’t just about crime, it’s about looking after vulnerable neighbours, being involved in the community and perhaps being aware of those who are more likely to become a victim of crime than others.

On a lighter note, Dorset Police would like to wish you all a merry and safe Christmas.

If you need to contact Dorset Police please call our police enquiry centre on 101 or email 101@dorset.pnn. police.uk. Always call 999 in an emergency – when there is a risk of harm or a crime in progress. Alternatively, call the free Crimestoppers line on 0800 555111. You can also use our website to report a number of issues, from full crime reports to lost property. Just go to dorset.police.uk/ do-it-online.

We are at Facebook.com/ Purbeck-police and on Twitter @PurbeckPolice. You can also see our latest priorities with up-andcoming events at dorset. police.uk/neighbourhoodpolicing/purbeck.

Finally, registering with Dorset Alert at dorsetalert. co.uk will give you free information on local crime and incidents where we believe sharing information with you will help to solve crimes and prevent further offences occurring,

PURBECK

NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICING TEAM

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Avlaki Olive Oils

Olive trees are so generous: bearing fruit year after year – and they’ve done it for aeons. Fossils from cultivated trees could be 50 to 60 thousand years old! Through the centuries, the olive tree, olives, olive oil have been central to the march of history, powering ancient civilisations and empires. Incredibly versatile – far more interesting than if you only know olive oil as a cooking fat: the iron hard wood made tools and machines, its high heat fired up furnaces, mixing oil with herbs to make unguents and perfumes. Even the simple soap recipe is thousands of years old. The culture wide symbolism of olive oil is very telling: of life, of divine blessing, of so many special gifts. And then cooking. Take no notice of food writers; peoples have been cooking with olive oil for centuries: archeological finds also prove that. But what kind of oil would that have been? Alas, not what you find in a supermarket, mixed from multiple sources and ‘blended’ to make a uniform constant ‘taste’ for the shopper. The small farmer takes home from the oil mill only the best of the crop for the family and to give to special friends, to wish them health and prosperity and certainly to remember the giver. When we restored our ancient mountain groves the new growth emerged from the perimeter of tree trunks, so old some are even a metre across! The trees soon bounced back into fruitful life, giving us top quality fruit – and oil. So while we are harvesting, we can’t help imagining the ancients doing the very same thing in the very same place –that they are now still giving us the fruits of their expertise.

Ancient gifts which we like to think we also capture in our bottles and soaps!