POLICE are advising residents on the process of reporting suspicious incidents after receiving seven suspicious vehicle/person reports in Bramley and Sherfield last month. 

They added they believed more incidents are not reported because residents do not understand what happens with the reports.

When a call is made to the police, call takers will grade the report according to risk, which range from an emergency response to no response at all.

A suspicious incident reported at the time of it happening will normally mean a quick response as most reports of this nature will not last for long.

For example a suspicious person is likely to move on or a vehicle will drive away.

Police  have said if they act on a report of a suspicious incident this could lead to an arrest or good intelligence that they would not have had if no one had called them.

PCSO Nathan Johnson said: "Just because something gets reported as suspicious it doesn’t mean anything bad is actually happening or likely to happen, it’s just something that seems odd for the area, we would rather receive the call and it turn out to be nothing to worry about than not receive a call and it turn out to be something serious.

"If you see anything you consider being suspicious please call us on 101 to report it. If there are any units free at the time of the call, they will attend.

"I am impressed of the detail people giving to us.

"The majority of the suspicious vehicles that have been called in to us have been with a full registration. 

"It helps us out a lot when we have this line of enquiry as we can normally locate the owner and ask them what they were doing. "

Police remind residents in the event of a genuine emergency to call 999.