Good morning,

We just wanted to let you know that thieves are currently targeting the car parks in the New Forest. Recently vehicles parked in the Beaulieu Road and Long Cross car parks have been broken into and hand bags and rucksacks stolen. A car parked on the roadside in Bramshaw was also targeted.

Op Koeman is our response to these thefts and we regularly patrol the car parks across the New Forest but we need your help too.

Never leave anything valuable in your vehicle when you leave it unattended and don't hide anything in the boot either because you never know who is watching you. Thieves monitor the car parks looking for the most vulnerable vehicles to target so make yours as unattractive to them as you can by taking everything with you..

And if you do see anyone acting suspiciously in and around parked vehicles call us immediately.

Thank you.

PC 24091 Mark Roberts and PCSO 14495 Richard Williams