Essex Police have issued a county-wide warning to the public in the wake of more bogus caller incidents.

An Essex Police spokesman has urged members of the public to fit chains to their doors to prevent unwanted callers from pushing their way in.

Homeowners are also being told to carefully check the identity of any house-to-house callers claiming to be from the water board or any other similar service organisations. All genuine callers will have an identity card.

The alert follows two more instances where residents were the victims of con-men.

A woman in Pitsea realised she had been robbed after a man knocked on her door at 6pm last night claiming to be from the water board.

While one man distratced her in the kitchen, another stole a sum of money from elsewhere in the house.

And at 7pm last night in Thundersley, a 92-year-old woman also had a sum of money taken when con-men called at her home.

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