Hello again,
Well this week I have been on a CID attachment at Shirley. We do not have a CID team at Southampton Central, and the officers from Shirley cover my area. I have been shadowing the Detective Sergeants to see what they do and how they do it.
It is very different from my normal role. On Monday they had new incidents come in from the weekend, and allocated detectives to each investigation/job. One of the jobs was the assault on the Cardiff City football supporter, which has been the subject of considerable media coverage. The police media department released certain information to the press and it is surprising how that information then appears in the media. However, the publicity has produced quite a bit of information from the public and the team are working well on the enquiries. This job was particularly interesting for me as this is within my area, and as you may have previously read, there has been quite a bit of activity within the Chapel area recently.
These crimes are on top of several long term, in depth investigations that CID are dealing with. Certainly in real life things are not as quick as they are dealt with in The Bill on TV.
Back to my patch. The vehicle crime spree in Chapel seems to have stopped - no vehicle crime reported there for a month. It is still reduced in Northam and the other areas of St Marys as well.
Last week we gained an ASBO on a youth, one of the conditions was not to enter Northam and most of St Marys. Well, the youth was arrested on Monday when he breached the ASBO and was found inside the area he is excluded from. PC Dave Houghton is now working with the council for an ASBO on another youngster.
Anyway, back to the grindstone. Don't forget to leave a comment if there's something you want to say - I've managed to answer a couple that were waiting for me, as well as writing this update for you.
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Hi Dick, Have you noticed a new company on 'your patch', I have and I bet a lot of residents have. They are 'trolleywise'. They go round collecting all the Asda and now Ikea trolleys from the roadsides and student residences and take them back to their owners. Fab idea. Also, great to have PCSO Michael Kesslar-Lyne starting a 'beat surgery' at the Solent University Residences. We will help him with the promo but students are not alway's the best at turning up to these things. You don't know unless you try tho'. Thanks for the 'safer neighbourhood team' poster. Ian @Deanery residence.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment Ian - hopefully some students will attend the surgeries -the main thing is that we are avaiable for them if they need us. These will supplement our surgeries at St marys School, Tesco Express in St mary St and planned surgeries at City College. Regarding Trolleywise, yes I was aware but had not used them. I noticed an item in the Echo of a chap that emptied the River itchen near St Denys of rubbish and that item referred to Trolleywise and to to contact the council for details. Well, this morning I did contact the council about Trollywise and after being transferred and transferred - no-one in the council knew about it. So I phoned Asda, and they informed that they do indeed employ Trolleywise. It works that people phone Asda to say they have found a trolly, Asda make a note and when the Trolleywise man comes to Southampton he calls into Asda, they give him their list and off he goes. So if they are working for several companies, they collect all the lists before they go trolley hunting. So if anyone finds a lost trolley - the best thing to do is call the store it belongs to to report it and they will contact Trolleywise if they are part of the scheme.
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