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- Vote in the European Parliament Elections on 4 June
- Council to fly flag for armed forces
- Rape alarms available from police and Council
- Organic garden opens its gates
- Poetry, comedy and literature at libraries festival this summer
- Music and nature at the Stables Gallery
- Views wanted on policies to guide future growth of borough
- Council team takes up the bike challenge
- Walk the Thames
- New Mayor reopens Teddington Library
- Free parking in Richmond upon Thames on Monday
- Personal alarms available from police and Council
- Learning the Kunskapsskolan way
- New affordable homes to be built
- Council seeks new co-sponsor for Shene
- Your vote could help Orleans House Gallery win the £100,000 Art Fund prize
- By the light of the moon
- Making parks even better
- Get Fit in Castlenau Recreation Ground
- Football Club scores with Council
- Employee Awards for Power Candidates
- CPZ review
- Eat al fresco in Church Street
- Olympic gold medallist trains Richmond rowers
- Join in the fun at Heathfield Street Party on 16 May
- Meeting of young minds to become annual event
- Council supports IDAHO
- It’s stitching, but not as we know it
- How can we cut carbon footprint?
- Supper with Shakespeare
- Free adult learning taster sessions in borough’s libraries 9-15 May
- Kick off the summer with the Power Employment flower show
- Outdoor swimming pool opens for summer
- Standards Committee member wanted by Council
- Find out about Council services at Richmond Fair
- Comment on Shopfront Design Guide
- Your say wanted on how extensions are decided
- Pupils get ready to grow their own
- Volunteers are supporting community
- Borough smashes tree planting target
- Exclusively Richmond
Release Date: 26/05/2009
Rape alarms available from police and Council
Hundreds of rape alarms are being made available free to young women in the borough following the four attacks committed in Richmond Upon Thames and Hounslow.
Police last week confirmed they were investigating four attacks, all said to be linked, on women aged 16-25 by a man described as having a dark complexion and who was said to be in his mid-to-late 20s, with chubby cheeks and thick eyebrows.
One of the victims described the suspect as having dark hair, while two of the victims could smell sweet aftershave on him. Anyone with any information is urged to call the Incident Room on 0208 785 8244 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Richmond Council and its partners in the Community Safety Partnership are giving the alarms out from the Civic Centre reception in York Street, Twickenham, and from the town’s police station. Extra police patrols have also been organised.
Parks Patrol officers, who work the borough’s park areas during the evenings have been given the description of the man and also have a number of alarms which can be given out to vulnerable women late at night.
A briefing was last week circulated to all state and private schools in Richmond upon Thames, as well as to Richmond College, to make pupils aware of what has happened.
Anne Lawtey, the Council’s Community Planning Manager said: “Richmond upon Thames is still the safest borough in London, and ‘stranger rape’ attacks are extremely rare, but the partnership has acted quickly to do everything we can to ensure young women are warned and given the right advice.
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