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Safer Neighbourhood
Policing Team Newsletter
Your Safer Neighbourhood Team
Wrecclesham and The Bourne
Keeping you up to date on local issues
PC Simon Anderson
ID No: 616
Email:wswaverleysnt1@
surrey.pnn.police.uk
PCSO Karen Phillips
ID No: 12010
Email:wswaverleysnt1@
surrey.pnn.police.uk
To contact your Safer Neighbourhood Team call
0845 125 2222
What is a Safer Neighbourhood Team?
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Working with you and partner organisations, your local Safer Neighbourhood Policing
Team tackles neighbourhood issues that matter most to you. Come along to one of our
local Panel Meetings or Surgeries to tell us what you'd like to see us working on
together. Each of Surrey's 106 Safer Neighbourhood Teams has a Neighbourhood
Specialist Officer (an NSO - who is a Police Constable), Police Community Support
Officers (PCSOs) and Special Constables (community volunteers with police officer
powers). Together they know your area, are visible and easy to contact.
You may read or hear in the local media reports that Surrey Police is restructuring.
These changes are at a Force level and won't affect your local Safer Neighbourhood
Team - Surrey Police will continue to have 106 such teams, working with you to create
safer neighbourhoods.
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Meetings and Surgeries on our web pages at www.surrey.police.uk.
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The Wrecclesham Panel recently
voted environmental issues - general
rubbish, overgrown hedges and poor
street lighting - to be the
neighbourhood’s chief priorities. In
partnership with Waverley Council, the
Safer Neighbourhood Team is now
making great efforts to make the area
a cleaner, more pleasant place to live.
The Panel was also concerned
about anti-social behaviour by youths
and the riding of motorbikes, large and
small, at Riverdale and on the
recreation ground, the rugby field and
in the quarry area. Increased police
patrols appear to have quelled these
situations. And warnings have been
issued to several of the inconsiderate
motorbike riders.
The refurbishment and reopening of
Wrecclesham’s Community Centre
now offers alternative pastimes for
youngsters. Karate and boxing clubs
are already running and the youth club
was relaunched in February.
PC Simon Anderson and Youth
PCSO Claire Burton are planning a
regular film night, probably starting
with a movie for 10-14 year olds - with
In this issue
z Speeding survey underway
z Do you want a Police Surgery?
future evenings hopefully devoted to
pensioners and older teens.
Karen Phillips on patrol in The Bourne
Rowledge
Rowledge is a safe place to live, with
just ten crimes committed last year.
However, the area has suffered a
number of house burglaries of late.
Patrols have been increased in an
attempt to catch the offenders and to
offer reassurance to residents. We
urge all householders to ensure that
their property is safe and secure.
In further efforts to combat the long
standing speeding issue in the Bourne,
PC Simon Anderson and Casualty
Reduction Officer PC Dave Thomas
recently undertook a speed survey in
Frensham Road. We are awaiting the
results and will update you as soon as
possible
Meanwhile, our sincere thanks go to
all our Community Speedwatch
volunteers who are regularly seen out
with the speed gun in their own time.
Do you want a Police Surgery?
PC Simon Anderson organised a
Police Surgery in the Bourne some
years ago but attendance was poor
and he has yet to repeat the exercise.
Likewise a meeting with the council,
fire service and police was organised
three years ago at Rowledge Village
Karen providing reassurance in the community
Hall - but only one person turned up!
We stress that Police Surgeries
offer the opportunity to express any
concerns in a meeting with a
Community Officer. Please consider
this, and let us know if you would like
us to arrange a Surgery in the near
future.
Dave is slowing things down
Waverley’s Casualty Reduction
Officer, PC Dave Thomas, has
responsibility for all road safety issues
throughout the borough.
Dave is a member of the Casualty
Reduction Action Group (CRAG),
which is a partnership group.
CRAG enables him to call on the
expertise of our partner agencies to
set up casualty reduction initiatives.
Dave explains: “Some of these
projects are aimed at young students
approaching driver age or who are
already scooter riders. We also run a
School Speedwatch scheme for
younger children.”
Regular campaigns are run
throughout the year to tackle
drink-driving, in-car mobile phone use
and child seatbelt restraints. “We’ve
also had success in making our roads
safer through Community
Speedwatch,” said Dave. “This
involves residents monitoring
speeding motorists and reporting them
to the police. Speedwatch schemes
are set up in several Waverley
neighbourhoods.”
Working Together:
Local and county councils, housing associations, health and welfare
agencies and education authorities are just some of the organisations
working alongside your Safer Neighbourhood Team.
In addition to all of this, Dave
monitors the borough’s accident
statistics and carries out intelligenceled targeted enforcement at casualty
Hot Spots.
Vehicle crime prevention advice
The arrival of warmer weather
invariably brings an increase in the
number of cars broken into in beauty
spot car parks (although not as many
as those burgled while parked at the
roadside). Most thieves are
opportunists looking for an easy way to
break into a car likely to contain a
mobile phone, a handbag, a sat nav
system or other valuable items. We
urge you to remove all valuables
before leaving your car unattended.
This includes sat nav holders - and
always clean off those tell-tale sucker
marks from the windscreen.
Please note: a loud alarm system
deters criminals as it will attract
witnesses when activated by an
intruder. And, if there’s a choice when
parking, avoid isolated areas and look
for a spot that is in the open and well
lit.
Incidences of car thefts in which the
thief first steals the keys, are on the
rise too. Several expensive cars have
been stolen after the driver has left the
keys in the hallway or on a kitchen
table. A thief has either broken in or
used a hook to remove them - before
driving off in the car. After locking your
car, always ensure that the keys are
not left on view.
Finally, if you keep tools in your
van, they are more likely to be stolen if
you don’t fit an alarm and a metal
cage/chest to keep them in.
For further advice please visit the
Surrey Police or Home Office
websites, or contact Waverley’s Crime
Reduction Advisor, John Robini, on
01483 631623.
Neighbourhood Panel Meetings
If you want to raise concerns about
issues in your neighbourhood, come
along to one of our Panel Meetings or
informal Surgeries.
‘Meet The Beat’ in 2008
8 April, Weavers Garden, 6.30pm
Your Neighbourhood Priorities
z Speeding vehicles in
Wrecclesham
z Damage being caused in Vicarge
Hill
z Inconsiderate parking around
Menin Way, Waverley Lane and
Lynch Road area
Did you know:
In 1858, 150 years ago, Edwin T Holmes of Boston,
Massachusetts installed the world’s first burglar alarm
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