{"id":21913,"date":"2017-11-14T17:23:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T17:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=21913"},"modified":"2017-11-14T17:23:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T17:23:32","slug":"rogue-white-van-traders-target-pentyrch-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2017\/11\/14\/rogue-white-van-traders-target-pentyrch-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogue &#039;white van traders&#039; target Pentyrch residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">RESIDENTS in Pentyrch are being warned that rogue traders are knocking on people\u2019s doors in the village. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A number of people have had workmen knocking on their doors without appointments or have described seeing people bothering their neighbours. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PCSO Hywel Arkontopoulos said: \u201cWe have had two reports made to us recently of white van men offering to cut trees and offering to buy or sell copper wire.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;One of the villagers that was offered copper wires on his door step felt that something wasn\u2019t quite right. He said the man was looking over his shoulder into his house, eyeing up the place.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Police say that elderly residents have been targeted and in one instance a neighbour intervened when workmen knocked on the door to offer to clean his gutters. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mike Colley, Chair of the Pentyrch Neighbourhood Watch advises residents not to buy from people on their doorsteps even if they seem like legitimate salesmen. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mr Colley said: \u201cDo not invite people into your house, and use the door chain when answering the door. Never part with money up front as we have had incidences of people paying money for parts required and then never seeing the workmen again.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unfortunately, not enough people are reporting these incidents to the police, so they can\u2019t do much about it.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mr Colley also advises that before letting someone in, to read the gas meter for example, to check their professional ID. \u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PCSO Arkontopoulos advises any residents with information on rogue traders to call 101 and if possible to take down their vehicle registration plate so the police can track the owners of the vans. \u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, residents should call 999 if they see any suspicious activity at the time. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PCSO Arkontopoulos said that police patrol the village at least on a daily basis and frequently visit areas where rogue traders have been spotted previously. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RESIDENTS in Pentyrch are being warned that rogue traders are knocking on people\u2019s doors in the village. 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PCSO Hywel Arkontopoulos said: \u201cWe have had two reports made to us recently of white van men offering to cut trees and offering to buy or sell copper wire. &#8220;One of the villagers that was offered copper wires on his door step [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":21948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[727,113],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-21913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pentyrch","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rogue &#039;white van traders&#039; target Pentyrch residents - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2017\/11\/14\/rogue-white-van-traders-target-pentyrch-residents\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rogue &#039;white van traders&#039; target Pentyrch residents - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"RESIDENTS in Pentyrch are being warned that rogue traders are knocking on people\u2019s doors in the village. 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