UPDATED 15/11/2011
Sergeant Chris Hills is responsible for the Southgate Safer Neighbourhoods team, covering Stanmore, Olivers Battery, Badger Farm, St Cross, Compton, Otterbourne, Hursley, Colden Common and Twyford. 
The offIcers on your team are:
- Stanmore, St. Cross, Badger Farm and Oliver’s Battery - PC Gareth McGaw and PCSO Gavin Cooper
- Hursley, Otterbourne, Compton and Shawford - PC Jon Earnshaw
- Colden Common and Twyford -PC Jon Earnshaw and PCSO Amey Stevens
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.
Southgate Safer Neighbourhoods Team main priorities are:
Stanmore, St. Cross, Badger Farm and Oliver’s Battery
- Speeding at St Cross Road
- Anti-social behaviour in Cromwell Road and Wavell Way
Hursley, Otterbourne, Compton and Shawford
- Otterbourne Road, Main Road Otterbourne and Boyatt Lane - Speeding
- Otterbourne Road - Cycling on the footpath
- Hursley - Speeding
Colden Common and Twyford
- Parking issues in Park Lane and Twyford High Street area
- Speeding on Main Road and Church Lane, Colden Common
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 that we have taken in relation to your priorities
Our aim is for our community to know who their local officers are, and have a continuity of community issues. To combat anti-social behaviour and juvenile nuisance to improve the quality of life for our residents. This will gain public confidence through our actions and achievements.
Partnership Working
We work with other agencies to reduce crime and reduce the fear of crime. Such agencies include housing departments, anti-social behaviour co-ordinator’s, neighbourhood wardens, accredited community officers, fire brigade and youth case worker’s. At bi-weekly tactical meetings all agencies are represented when initiatives are discussed and actions tasked to the various agencies. This has resulted in multi agency operations to tackle current problems. Police, community wardens and neighbourhood wardens have weekly briefings to discuss specific areas of concern, so that targeted patrol can be conducted.
Parking Issues
We are working hard to resolve parking issues where they present themselves. We work by trying to educate road users giving them a warning letter and if necessary further enforcement is then done. This work is ongoing.
Speeding
Southgate officers have recently been trained in use of the hand held speed gun. We have undertaken several periods of enforcement in areas of concern highlighted by local people and we will continue to do so.
Community Work
Neighbourhood Watch
Sandie Vining has volunteered to represent the Southgate area at District NHW meetings with Hampshire NHW officers and the district police Senior Management Team. Each lead co-ordinator will be contacted on a regular basis by Southgate PCSOs and police officers; they will also be invited to meetings throughout the year where we can get together and discuss any issues.
These are now held at Winchester Police station as the number of coordinators has increased. Lead co-ordinators will cascade information to colleague street co-ordinators who will keep their members updated on local policing issues.
The PCSOs are actively seeking co-ordinators in the areas of Badger Farm, Stanmore and Colden Common where a need has been identified.
The following volunteers represent your area:
Stanmore, St Cross, Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery:
- Kilham Lane / Woodfield Drive - Sandie Vining
- St Cross - John Finlay
- Oliver's Battery - Maurice Walker and Paul Tipple
- Edgar Road - Keith Baker
- Badger Farm - Emma Smith
Hursley, Otterbourne, Compton and Shawford:
- Hursley - Mike Eggleton
- Otterbourne - Jean Mounter
- Shawford - Jenny Streat
- Compton - Eric Caldwell
Colden Common and Twyford:
- Colden Common – Irene and Brian Venable
- Twyford - David Rees and Ann Andrews
If you are interested in contacting your NHW coordinator, please contact one of my team at Twyford and we can forward your details.
Parish council meetings
We will attend Parish Council meetings on a quarterly basis in order to gain feedback from local representatives and the local community about issues of concern in their area. We will supply a monthly report detailing incidents of note in the area. We will also aim to attend all AGM's for the Parishes. Communication with the Parishes will also help us identify priorities for the beat areas we cover.
Carroll Centre
Local officers have kept very good relations with the staff and young people at the Carroll Centre. The centre has been refurbished and the city council is planning further improvement of the outside play area. The community partnership have provided a youth shelter in the park for young people to meet.
Community Patrol
All officers have been dedicated to local patrol, either by foot, cycle or vehicle. This ensures a high level of community satisfaction. Foot and cycle patrols will continue over the coming months.
Operations
Farley Mount Country Park
We have seen an increase in vehicles being broken into in the country park car parks, particularly at weekends. We have been conducting high visibility operations in this area to provide reassurance to people using this area and a deterrent to would be offenders. Efforts in this area are ongoing. The below photo is from a beat surgery that took place in the Junction car park organised by officers from Southgate Safer Neighbourhood Team.
Stanmore area
There has been a large number of reports of nuisance and noise occurring in the Stanmore area of Winchester. Officers have worked with the university and Environmental Health as well as Accredited Community Support Officers, Neighbourhood Wardens and local councillors to arrange several operations to be in the area at the time of the nuisance in order to deter individuals from causing problems and to educate them about living in a well populated area. This has proven positive. We will continue this work as this issue is an ongoing problem.
No Cold Calling Zones
Officers at Southgate are currently working help residents beat bogus callers by setting up No cold calling zones in our area. We have several No Cold Calling zones set up. These are in:
- Oakwood Avenue - Otterbourne
- Pelican Court - Hursley
- Keble Court - Hursley
- Lisle Court - Stanmore
- General Johnson Court - Stanmore
- Drummond Close - Stanmore
- Coles Mede - Otterborne
- Colverdene Close - Colden Common
- Cromwell Road and Airlie Corner - Stanmore
- Edward Road - Winchester
- Brambridge end of Church Lane - Colden Common
- Grays Close - Colden Common
- Kings Close - Twyford
The residents are really happy with the zones and have fully supported the police. The zones have been set up in conjuction with Winchester City Council and Trading Standards.
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.
NEW!
Public meetings are being held to explain changes to the way the Winchester district will be policed. It follows the announcement, last June that Twyford police station will close. Officers will start their duties from different locations but the same service will be provided to the public.
The meetings are:
Otterbourne Village Hall, 7.30pm on November 30
Twyford Village Hall, 7.30pm on December 1.
Beat Surgeries
As part of our commitment to be visible in your area and also receive feedback on what we are doing right and wrong we will be holding Beat Surgeries at the below locations and dates.
This is your opportunity to meet your local safer neighbourhood team and also discuss any issues you may have which may affect policing priorities and how we police your area.
- Compton Primary School,Tuesday November 8,2.30-3.30pm
- Cromwell Road Recreation Ground, Stanmore, Friday November 11, 1-1.45pm
- Twyford Village Hall, Saturday November 12, 2.30-3pm
- Otterbourne Primary School, Tuesday December 6, 2.30--3.30pm
- Outside Wavell Way Shops, Friday December 9, 3.-3.45pm
- Colden Common Community Centre, Tuesday December 13, 11.15-12 noon
- Outside Hursley Village Hall, Tuesday January 17, 2012 2.30-3.30pm
PACT (Partners and Communities Together) Meetings
Southgate SNT are trying to organise PACT meetings for the neighbourhoods they are responsible for. One has already been set up which covers the area of Stanmore, Badger Farm, Olivers Battery and St Cross. This meeting has proved highly successful in allowing communities to communicate directly with their local officers. These meetings are held quarterly and are open to members of the public.
The next PACT meeting for this area is:
We have also arranged a PACT meeting for the areas of Compton and Shawford, Otterbourne and Hursley.
The next PACT meeting for this area is:
The next PACT meeting for the Colden Common and Twyford area is:
Should anyone wish for further details please contact us using the details at the bottom of this page.
Your Voice Counts
'Your Voice Counts' comment boxes have been placed in Oliver's Battery Convenience store and Colden Common Community Centre. The boxes are confidential and allow residents to let Southgate police officers know their point of view and the areas they would like improved or targeted. We are then able to react to these concerns.
You can also access the Your Voice Counts online feedback form by clicking on the below link:
Your Voice Counts
Parish Council meetings
Representatives from your SNT will be present at the following parish council meetings between 7.30 - 8pm. Subject to operational demands:
- Otterbourne P/C AGM 15th November
- Hursley P/C AGM 14th November
- Compton and Shawford P/C 6th December
- Olivers Battery P/C 6th December
- Badger Farm P/C 12th December
For further information, including venue, please use the web site links for each Parish Council - Including Oliver's Battery, Colden Common, Hursley, Compton and Shawford, Otterborne, Twyford and Oliver's Battery - below.
You will find on the Parish Websites the most up to date meeting details and minutes from previous meetings which will contain our police report.
http://www.coldencommon.hants.gov.uk/
http://www.hursley.hampshire.org.uk/
http://www.bfobrca.com/OBPC/obpc_home.html (Oliver's Battery)
http://communities.hants.gov.uk/compton-and-shawford-index
http://communities.hants.gov.uk/otterbourne-index
www.twyfordpc.hants.gov.uk
http://www.bfobrca.com/BFPC/bfpc_home.html (Badger Farm)
You could also volunteer to help the teams working in your local area and make a real difference to your neighbourhood.
Click here for more information about police support volunteers.
Contact your local Safer Neighbourhoods team using the details at the bottom of this page to find out about community meetings, beat surgeries or other events they may be planning.
Crime mapping and local performance information
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
To contact the team responsible for your local area, call 101 and ask to speak to someone from your local Safer Neighbourhoods team. Alternatively please email winchester.southgate.snt@hampshire.pnn.police.uk. If you are calling from outside Hampshire and the Isle of Wight dial 0845 045 45 45.
