Hello again,
First of all an update on the vehicle crime in the Chapel area - thankfully there have only been 2 further reports for Chapel, although Ocean Village seems to be suffering now. It seems a team are making their way around the waterfront. Ocean Village is managed by my colleague Sgt Richard McWilliam and he is looking at ways to reduce the crime - and probably send it back to me! In the meantime we are putting up posters to remind residents to remove items from their cars and the management group of the Chapel Development are looking at some 'target hardening' ideas. We have had a few leads and our tasking team will be taking these forward.
As I write this on Thursday, we have the Chapel Residents meeting tonight, so car crime will be a topic to be discussed. We also have the Northam Tenants and Residents meeting on Monday 2 February. We attend all the residents meetings we can. That gives people the opportunity to tell us their concerns and get to know us. Police sometimes only attend these sort of meetings when asked - and if that happens you know for sure there is some stuff to come flying at you. By attending them all, it lets us know residents feelings a lot earlier and we can start doing something about the problems before they get out of hand. Last night I had the Stadium Monitoring Group. This is a community group which meets at St Marys Stadium with Saints to discuss issues relating to the stadium and the effect it has within the community. They are held every three months or so and are very useful.
The Police surgery that PCSO Kelly Drodge recently held at St Marys School went well and we have some more surgeries planned:
Northam Housing Office - every Thursday 3-4pm
St Marys School 6 February and 6 March 9-10am
Tescos Express St Mary St 2 February and 2 March 5.30-7.30pm
We are also looking at holding surgeries at the Halls of Residence and PCSO Mike Kesslar-Lyne is arraging this with the Halls managers.
Finally, you are probably aware of the Constabulary's Operation Nemesis - The burglar's worst enemy, the victim's best friend. Fortunately we do not suffer from too many burglaries in our patch, but for more information please log on to the Constabulary website.
Cheers
Dick
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