Hello again, Its been a busy week trying to catch up from the Christmas and New Year period. As pointed out by the comment from Jacqui - the list of officers for Northam is a bit ouf date, so here is the current line up.
St Marys
PC Simon Bradshaw,
PC Caroline Woodfield
PC Steve McKenzie
PCSO Fiona Oates
PCSO Kelly Drodge
PCSO David Wright
PCSO Mike Kesslar-Lyne
Northam
PC Phil Warwick
PC Dave Houghton
PCSO Mark Reynolds
PCSO Ed Wiggans
We are all contactable through the webpage
Cycling on the pavement is an ongoing issue and this week we have given one £30 ticket in St Mary Street and 2 other offenders have been reported for summons and files sent off to the Crown Prosecution Service. Please let us know of any hotspots for this annoying offence and we will get officers down there.
With the Police Community Support Officer numbers being up to strength now, we are planning to hold more police surgeries, where we have a stand and people can come with their problems and concerns. We plan surgeries at Tesco Express in St Mary Street at 5.30pm - 7.30pm on February 2, and at St Marys School 9am - 10 am on January 16.
Although we do not suffer from too many burglaries in our patch, we want to reduce what we do get. The team are getting around all of the businesses in our beats to get contact details and email addresses so we can quickly get information out to businesses if we need to.
The team are starting the Junior PCSO schemes for Lumpy Lane, Deanery and Chapel again, with the dog section coming to see the group in Chapel next week. These schemes have been really good at engaging the kids and helping keep their areas tidy.
Finally, and good news while it lasts - reported vehicle crime in Northam and St Marys is currently at 11 for the last rolling month. This is down from over 40 a month in the summer. There have been several arrests and we have been leafletting cars to warn people about leaving stuff on show, so it would be nice to think we can keep the figures low - we will try…
Anyway, I hope you find this interesting, let me know, send a few comments, anything else you would find useful?
Cheers
Dick
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Dear Dick
ReplyDeleteI wish we had Police cops like your lot where we live. You guys are the bees knees. I reckon that Sergent Williams in Newtown is cool as well as he only has 3 vehicle crimes in the past month.
Keep up the good work.
My four year old daughter and I wait every day for a bus outside City College on Chapel Road. There are a very high number of cyclists who squeeze through on the pavement (some at quite high speeds). They are usually entering or exiting the paths through St Mary's Church. I worry about the safety of this because the pavement becomes very narrow between the bus stop and wall - there is a large bin there too - and bus passengers often can not hear the bikes approaching. I worry that there will be an accident between a cyclist and a bus passenger one day. I wonder whether your offers and PCSOs could make an extra point of keeping any eye on this area in the next few weeks?
ReplyDeleteMember of staff, City College
Thanks for the comment regarding cycling on the pavement in Chapel Rd. I have passed that to PCSOs David Wright our City College liaison PCSO and Fiona Oates who is responsible for Chapel for future operations and education with the College. In the meantime, PCSOs Kelly Drodge and Mike kesslar-Lyne will get down there this afternoon and start challenging people and issue a few tickets.They will enforce this area for the rest of the week and I will let you know the results. Any particular time for this problem??
ReplyDeleteGood afternoon Dick.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Ian and I look after the day to day management of Southampton Solent Uni's Deanery Student Residence in Marsh Lane. I would like to say a big thanks for your support and advice lately. Especially with regard to cycle safety etc. We have been blessed with regular visits from PCSO's Mike Kesslar and Kelly Drodge. They have both been proffessional and very helpful, a credit to your team. Thanks for the updates with the newsletters, I have distributed to other Residence Managers and printed copies off to put in the leaflet display racks.
Thanks again.
Ian