Thieves target Somerset flooding victims

Police ask flood tourists to stay away as extra officers are deployed on the Somerset Levels Thieves have been targeting flood victims on the Somerset Levels, police said. About 600 gallons of domestic heating oil was stolen from a farm in Moorland on Friday night. Two fire service quad bikes were taken from Burrowbridge on the same night. On Sunday night, the national police air service (NPAS) helicopter flew over the flood-hit area as a proactive crime prevention exercise . Police horses have also been deployed and officers will make regular patrols for a high-visibility presence and to reassure residents. Four extra high volume pumps requested from fire and rescue services around the country have arrived on the Levels, adding to the eight already in use. Currently, the combined pumping across the moors is enough to fill an Olympic swimming in tool every 90 seconds. Ch Supt Caroline Peters, of Avon and Somerset police, who is heading the response to the floods, said: We are aware of
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