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The Countrywatch Rural Crime Task Force are warning local communities after 500 partridges were stolen from a farm in Ashley.
It was reported that between 3am and 11am on 18 July, the birds were stolen from two pens at the farm.
We are conducting a number of enquiries and are also asking for anyone with information to make contact with reference 44260403571.
The Rural Crime Taskforce are urging gamekeepers and shoot owners to report any suspicious people showing an interest in their pens, birds and estates.
Please check your livestock and the the security of boundary fencing regularly. If they're making more noise than usual this could mean something has disturbed them.
You can also:
• make regular checks of the fields where birds are kept to check that fences and pens haven’t been breached and remain secure;
• consider installing CCTV and security lighting if possible, or covert trail cameras
• Keep gates and access to land and pens secure at all times with robust locking especially overnight.
Rural crime remains a priority for the force. Officers will continue to patrol the vast rural spaces of the county, respond to any calls for service that come in, providing a robust response to rural criminality. Your intelligence and information is vital to this so please continue to ensure suspicious activity within rural areas is reported so we can understand what is happening in your communities.
We encourage people impacted by rural crime to report incidents to us as they happen on 999.
If you have information about suspicious activity, or that you think might help our enquiries or patrols, you can submit this to us by calling 101 or using the report tool at www.hampshire.police.uk | 
