Sergeant Chris Spellerberg is responsible for the Safer Neighbourhoods team covering Eastleigh Central, comprising Eastleigh town centre, Boyatt Wood, Fleming Park, Newtown and the Aviary estate.
The officers and staff on the team are:
- PC Heather Turton: Eastleigh town centre
- PC Rob Thomas: Eastleigh town centre
- PC Jamie Kelly: Eastleigh town centre
- PCSO Tom Blyth: Eastleigh town centre
- PCSO Mike Alder: Eastleigh town centre
- PCSO Mike Higgins; Boyatt Wood, Allbrook and Newtown
- PCSO Mani O'Hanlon: Boyatt Wood, Allbrook and Newtown
- PC Julieanne Hutchison: Aviary Estate and residential areas adjoining the town centre
- PC Stu Beale: Aviary Estate and residential areas adjoining the town centre
- PCSO Tina Fry: Aviary Estate and residential areas adjoining the town centre
- PCSO Bob Finch: Aviary Estate and residential areas adjoining the town centre (Safer Schools Partnership - Quilley School of Excellence)
- PCSO Ben Housley: Aviary Estate and residential areas adjoining the town centre
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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.
Communities priorities for the central areas of Eastleigh include:
- Continue to reduce alcohol related crime and disorder, in the town centre and local parks (Fleming Park, Lawn Road Park, Leigh Road and Grantham Green), including issues around anti-social behaviour and underage drinking
- Enforce speed and weight restrictions for vehicles on Twyford Road
- Reduce criminal damage and anti-social behaviour in Newtown and Boyatt Wood mainly on Friday and Saturday nights
- Supporting Operation Nemesis, protecting vulnerable properties with additional daily patrols and targeted operations.
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 priorities
You Said…you wanted a reduction in violent crime and anti-social behaviour in Eastleigh town centre
We Delivered…. Additional police patrols operate regularly on weekend nights. We are actively involved in supporting Pub Watch, which bans troublemakes from all licensed premises involved in the scheme in Eastleigh. Close co-operation with licensees has led to better managed and safe places for people to socialise. Over the last 12 months violent crime in Eastleigh has seen a significant downturn. We are also regularly involved in drug testing operations and we work closely with the Licensing Department to tackle problem premises.
You Said…Reduction in underage drinking and anti social-behaviour in neighbourhood parks, namely Fleming Park, Lawn Road park and Grantham Green.
We Delivered… We do not tolerate anti-social behaviour and use our powers to confiscate alchohol and break up and remove groups or individuals intent on disorder. We actively support a number of youth activities including Energy youth club. We chair a schools intervention project meeting with a number of other agencies including the council, child services, voluntary youth groups and education welfare in order to help divert vulnerable youn people away from crime.
Shop Watch
We also continue to support the local Shop Watch scheme and are actively working to identify and prosecute shoplifters as well as reduce street crime and anti-social behaviour. This schemes sees local shop owners and security staff working together with police. We regularly run disruption operations in the town centre.
GOOD NEWS! We are pleased to announce a £2000 grant has been presented by Councillor Chris Thomas on behalf of Hampshire County Council to the scheme, which will fund new radios to allow more shops to come on board, who may not have been able to pay for the equiment themselves, and will also enable us to purchase more crime prevention items to give to residents, such as purse lanyards.
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.
We regularly conduct ‘Street Meets’ where team members who have identified a problem will leaflet drop the local area – detailing the time and place where staff will be to allow local residents to come along and raise issues of concerns to them. This has been very successful in locations at Milton Road, Alexander Square, Heinz Burt Close and the Aviary Estate.
You can also visit us at one of our regular Beat Surgeries which are detailed below:
Market Square between 10am and 3pm:
- Thursday, February 9
- Saturday, February 25
- Thursday, March 15
You can contact your local team via the email and telephone emails listed below or alternatively, please come and see us at the police station to personally report.
Any issues or concerns you might have about your neighbourhood could also be raised at your local Parish Council meeting. For information about your local Parish Council click here
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.
Community Speedwatch
People across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight are being empowered to tackle speeding motorists in their communities.
Speeding is a common concern among communities across the two counties and now members of these communities have put themselves forward to give up some of their time and become police support volunteers.
The volunteers are joining a scheme called Community SpeedWatch, which aims to educate drivers on the effects of speeding and help prevent drivers speeding through our communities. Contact us at Eastleigh police station for more information.
Crime Reports
Visit www.crimereports.co.uk to find up to date, accurate information on crimes, anti-social behaviour, traffic incidents and fire related incidents that have happened in your local area.
How to contact us
If you would like to speak to someone regarding policing in your local area, please call 101 or email: eastleigh.central.snt@hampshire.pnn.police.uk.
Page last updated on January 13
