UPDATED 17/05/2011
The Safer Neighbourhoods team covering Portchester is led by Sergeant Jerry Tremellen.
The officers on the team are:
- PC Timothy Young
- PC Andrew Higgs (Safer Schools)
- PC Francesca Munro (West Portchester)
- PC Sarah Ball (East Portchester)
The team also contains the following PCSOs:
- PCSO John Payne (West Portchester)
- PCSO David Earley (East Portchester)
- PCSO Kim Mitchell (East Portchester)
- PCSO Bob Shailer
Your local priorities
Locally, we work with your community to find out what matters most where you live. We will work with you and our partner agencies to agree the main priorities for the area and how we will work together to tackle them.
Portchester Safer Neighbourhoods main three priorities are:
- Anti social behaviour in the town in general but specifically looking at Wicor Rec and Cranleigh Rd areas.
- Marine Crime.
- Continue to develop no cold calling zones in the town.
These are the priorities that people in your local area have agreed with the Safer Neighbourhoods team. You can influence these priorities by contacting your team, attending a meeting or speaking to members of the team when you see them out and about.
Action we have taken in relation to your local priorities
The team will be focusing on public reassurance and reducing antisocial behaviour and perceived antisocial behaviour. The team’s aim is to promote of safer neighbourhoods in conjunction with partner agencies.
Our presence has allowed the key issues of antisocial behaviour and juvenile nuisance to be targeted resulting in a considerable drop in the number of reported incidents.
Sergeant Tremellen says: "We are fortunate that serious crime in Portchester is rare. Our main issues are those of public reassurance which we address by maintaining our visible presence in the area, targeting the problem areas with positive action, with the help of our fellow agencies."
Latest News
The team continues its efforts on the youth issues in Portchester. It has been an on going problem with some of the youths, causing a nuisance in the community centre to staff and residents, during the evenings. We had been trying a new idea of promoting the youths to use another area, i.e. allocate them an area where they can meet their friends and socialise without causing the issues that generate calls from the public to the police.
Early indications showed that it seemed to work and that the number of calls to the precinct, had dropped off. However, due to the numerous calls of nuisance with youths kicking balls up against the Centre wall and playing football in the tennis courts, we had to re evaluate the idea. Consequently that policy has now changed.
Portchester neighbourhood police and the patrol teams in the district are now encouraging any youths that are hanging around the centre to leave the area. This is based on the number of calls we have received and reflects the residents wishes. Consequently the number of calls we receive in relation to this area, have dropped considerably. We will keep this pressure up.
In relation to the precinct, we are more than happy for the youths to attend the precinct to buy food but we are asking them to leave, once they have done so. We are also actively discouraging them from playing football in the precinct. In addition, we are encouraging the youths to park their mopeds at the rear of the shops to prevent noise from these machines causing annoyance to the residents. We have had very few calls in relation to the precinct over recent weeks.
As mentioned, playing football in the tennis courts adjacent to the precinct has been another issue affecting local residents. As previously mentioned, the council has raised the height of the fencing which should help reduce stray balls in general. The team are aware that this could become an issue again during the summer months, especially with the world cup on the horizon and so we will be robust on this issue and anyone playing anything other than tennis, will be ejected. Portchester currently has two members of the public on anti social behaviour orders.
Plus we are continually monitoring those on acceptable behaviour contracts, to see if they are complying with their restrictions, plus constantly reviewing those that need to have restrictions in place. It demonstrates that the team is not prepared to tolerate any anti social behaviour by anyone and we will act to control them and keep Portchester a safe place to live and work in. We have been looking at speeders along White Hart Lane, with the assistance of our colleagues in the roads policing unit. Further operations in the town will follow.
Speeding is anti-social as well as dangerous. We now have an officer designated to dealing with issues in the schools in Portchester. Andy Higgs is part of the safer schools partnership where he is building relationships between the police and the students at an early stage. He concentrates on the senior schools. It is particularly useful for us because we can feed any issues that we want addressing through Andy to the pupils direct. Vice versa, if any information Andy feels we need to be aware of, it can reach us very quickly. He is mainly in the schools during term time but when the schools are on holiday, he reverts back to joining us and he will be seen policing the streets of Portchester.
You will see that the increase in no cold calling zones in the town has become a priority for us and we will be working with trading standards to put in place even more areas under this scheme in the near future. If you wish to be considered, please contact the team.
How you can take action
Come and tell us what is important to you in your neighbourhood, and play your part in setting local priorities.
On the first Wednesday of every month, members of the Portchester safer neighbourhood team can be found in the precinct, in the morning, with the beat surgery bus.
We were in the library but we've received comments that we were missed in the precinct and so we will happily revert back to being in the precinct.
In addition, we have also secured usage of the porta cabin at the rear of the Portchester Community Centre.
Again, we will have representatives at the porta cabin every Monday from 10.00am to 12.00pm to answer any queries or assist in any way we can.
We have also become the first safer neighbourhood team in the county to use www.twitter.com as a means of communication.
It is an ideal way for us to get relevant and necessary information to the people of Portchester as quickly as we can.
This isn't an alternative to the mainstream media i.e: newspapers appeals that are released; however, if we need to make the residents aware of emerging issues, or we are appealing for witnesses or urgent piece of news we need to release immediately, then we will be making use of this site.
We strongly urge that you should check the Portchester Twitter page on a regular basis, if you are able to.
Access to the information can be obtained by typing www.twitter.com/portchestersnt.
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The Safer Neighbourhood team encourages feedback from local residents regarding community issues and endeavor to work toward sustainable solutions to the concerns raised.
If you need to see one of the team for any reason, this is one occasion that you can spend time with us:
Crime mapping and local performance information
Hampshire Constabulary has joined with partner agencies in the two counties to provide you with local information about crime and disorder, using a system called CADDIE. On the bottom left hand side of this page, you can enter your postcode into CADDIE to view information about your local area.
You can also view details of how we are performing against certain key criteria in your local area. Click here to see your local performance information.
How to contact us
If you have something you would like to discuss please contact the team by calling 101 and ask to speak to someone from your local Safer Neighbourhoods team. Alternatively please email fareham.sector@hampshire.pnn.police.uk. If you are calling from outside Hampshire or the Isle of Wight dial 0845 045 45 45.
