Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Police urge residents to be vigilant as burglar caught in the act on the Ladder today
The police are currently knocking on doors on the south End of the Ladder to remind people once again to be on the guard against burglary, as it was revealed by MPS Haringey on Twitter earlier today that patrol officers apprehended a burglar, when they spotted his feet dangling out of the window of an N4 Ladder property.
This followed a break in to an elderly lady's home in the same street, which left her in shock after the burglar entered her property from the back, although the police were not able to say whether it was the same person who they caught red-handed today.
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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on
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Do you know what street?
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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If you need to know please message me. Probably not suitable info for a public forum.
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Permalink Reply by Lesley G on
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Don't see how naming the street is unsuitable, particularly as the Met Police named the street themselves in their tweet!
It was Warham, for those concerned.
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Well I was trying to avoid it because the people mentioned above are not on the site and I have linked it and been a little specific about the second crime, which was NOT mentioned by the police.
If people want to come on the site to talk about their own experiences that's fine, but I am always wary of talking about other people's experiences in terms that could identify them publicly, even if they are not users of the site, but since you have insisted on naming the street in a public forum, I hope I don't get earache about it from the neighbours.
I'm not sure that street names are relevant to the information anyway as these burglaries are happening across the borough from Northumberland Park to Highgate. It's opportunism pure and simple and a forgotten open window, a weak door or even a wheelie bin under a back window have been all the invite the burglars have needed if you read the police tweets on this in the Storify above.
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Well the name of the street was public knowledge anyway, as the police explicitly named it on Twitter! So anyone who had read the MPS tweet (which was retweeted by other local people) could put 2 and 2 together themselves!
It's true that there is a spate of burglaries across the borough. Our next-door neighbour (Hornsey Park Road) was burgled 2 weeks ago.
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Yes, and I'm sure a moment's detective work would have revealed it to TW if he'd clicked on the link I provided which would have led him to the Twitter feed, but my point is that I mentioned and linked it to the second crime which was not revealed on Twitter and I felt that I should show some sensitivity because of that. Perhaps I'm being overcautious, but it is based on past experience about what is deemed appropriate by others in a public forum.
For the record, I'm not sure how I feel about MPS identifying specific streets in a public forum like Twitter. I hope it doesn't make the residents of those streets feel less safe as a result.
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Permalink Reply by hob on
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The post suggests that the robbery happened on the South Side of the ladder but the answer suggests the middle of the ladder. It would help if we knew the factual answer or nothing at all.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Counting from the south, Warham is the 9th street out of 22. Are you suggesting that anyone living north of Hewitt can relax ?
Anyway, Liz said -
" The police are currently knocking on doors on the south End of the Ladder ", not that the burglary happened there.
I wonder why Liz's innocuous but useful post should generate this amount of clucking ?
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Thanks John for your comments. Quite surprised I'm getting such mild grief as well, since I thought I'd made my reasons for not naming the road clear above and as you say I was merely passing on the info that the police were trying to contact people around the south end of the Ladder i.e. Warham back to Umfreville on the day when they called.
Perhaps hobs advice is for the best and I opt for posting nothing at all in the future. After all, if people want to know what is happening re crime in the area, they can follow @MPSHaringey on Twitter, search the HJ online or go to LCSP meetings.
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I didn't mean it as grief Liz, but I do think that this is an ideal place to print the name of the street involved. If anyone was on the street yesterday then they might have seen something unusual and could pass it on to the police. A specific area rather than a large region focuses the mind.
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Like John D, I'm struggling to see how knowing it was Warham puts my life or property in either greater safety or greater peril. I feel we need Clive Dunn to go around the Ladder & Hornsey Pk Rd shouting 'Don't panic! Don't panic!'.
Liz seems to be a very polite woman though I suspect her final sentence suggests she's not about to suffer fools gladly or even take any prisoners. Stick the boot in, Liz. As the late Corporal Jones might put it: 'They don't like it up'em!'
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