Inspector Patrick Holdaway (right) is responsible for the officers who cover all the Eastleigh neighbourhoods while Sergeant Wayne Fewings 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 Ian Spicer: Eastleigh town centre
- PC Robert Thomas: Eastleigh town centre
- PCSO Thomas Blyth: Eastleigh town centre
- PCSO Will Cantlie: Eastleigh town centre
- PCSO Rob Finch: Eastleigh town centre and Aviary Eastate and Fleming Park
(Safer Schools Partnership - Quilley School of Excellence)
- PC Stuart Beale; Boyatt Wood and Newtown
- PC Richard Knight: Boyatt Wood and Newtown
- PCSO Michael Higgins; Boyatt Wood and Newtown
- PC Helen Iliff: Aviary Estate, Fleming Park
- PCSO Tina Fry:Aviary Estate, Fleming Park
- PCSO Ian Nicholson: Aviary Estate, Fleming Park
Click here to read the latest newsletter from the Eastleigh Central Safer Neighbourhoods team.
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:
- Reduce alcohol related crime and disorder in the town centre and local parks, including issues around antisocial behaviour
- Reduce anti-social behaviour and underage drinking at Fleming Park, Lawn Road Park and Grantham Green
- Tackle anti-social neighbours within the areas of Milton Road, Alexander Square, The Meadows Estate and Church View
- Tackle issues of public reassurance – especially hate crime
- Tackle issues around burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage
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 Behavior in Eastleigh Town Centre
We Delivered…. Your Safer Neighbourhoods team continues working with our Safer Streets team and local licensed premises to support the Pub Watch scheme and have looked to maintain and increase members in the process. Close co-operation in this setting has provided successes with regard to assisting and developing better managed licensed premises as well as banning trouble makers from these locations.
We Delivered… Following ongoing youth nuisance problems around the Swan Centre and McDonalds entrances in central Eastleigh, Safer Neighbourhoods officers and PCSOs teamed up with Swan Security and carried out targeted patrols, interacting with many youths and speaking to parents. Good work from all involved has resulted in these incidents remaining at much lower numbers than in corresponding reporting periods.
We Delivered… Continuing the partnership work with the council in relation to alcohol related incidents, there has been a recent introduction of a Designated Public Place Order (DPPO) in the Town Centre and Newtown areas. This is not a drinking ban – but is a tool available to the Safer Neighbourhoods teams and partners to encourage appropriate and sensible drinking in public places. Seizures of alcohol continue to be few in number which supports the case that the message has been heard by those using our town area.
You Said…Reduction in underage drinking and anti social-behaviour in neighbourhood parks, namely Fleming Park, Lawn Road park and Grantham Green.
We Delivered… A diversion for youths in now fully up and running in the form of a Friday Night Football Project at Fleming Park and The Hub. With the assistance of council funding the involvement of NACRO and PCSO Dawson, this is continuing to be an excellent opportunity for local youths to involve themselves in worthwhile activities. This type of activity reduces the dependency on hanging around in town centres and on street corners where the temptation to commit anti-social acts are ever present.
This work has been repeated with equal success with our Shop Watch partners to better prepare ourselves in dealing with everyday issues around the town’s commercial trade. We are actively working to identify, prosecute and manage shop lifting, street crime and antisocial behaviour. Both schemes are supported by a police officer as a single point of contact and both encourage the partners to work with us and take responsibility for their roles to ensure Eastleigh remains a safe and family friendly environment.
This work has greatly assisted recent operations, both designed to capture offenders and to educate the public, due to an increased number of purse thefts. A number of education events, including the handing out of purse alarms have gone some way to safeguard the often vulnerable victims of these crimes. Police led operations have resulted in a number of arrests of suspects.
Following ongoing youth nuisance problems around the Swan Centre and McDonalds entrances in central Eastleigh, Safer Neighbourhoods officers and PCSOs teamed up with Swan Security and carried out numerous targeted patrols, interacting with many youths and contacting their parents. Good work from all involved has resulted in these incidents reducing in recent times.
The Single Point of Contact system as used for the Shop Watch and Pub Watch schemes is also being introduced for areas in which high levels of nuisance or crime occur, which will ensure the officer is familiar with previous incidents and able to continually collect evidence, to assist with partnership working.
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:
Wells Place Centre between 10am and 12pm
- Thursday, September 9
- Thursday, October 7
- Thursday, November 4
- Thursday, December 2
Sainsburys on Market Street between 10am and 11am
- Saturday, August 28
- Monday, September 27
- Saturday, October 30
- Monday, November 22
- Saturday, December 18
Fleming Park Leisure Centre
- Wednesday, September 29, 6-7pm
Boyatt Wood Shopping Centre (outside on the walkway)
- Thursday, September 23, 6-7pm
- Thursday, October 21, 4-5pm
- Thursday, November 18, 4-5pm
- Wednesday, December 15, 6-7pm
You can contact your local team via the email and telephone emails listed below or even popping into the station to personally report.
Local Action Group meetings on:
- Monday, September 20 in the Civic Offices at 10.30am
- Monday, November 15 at 7pm (venue to be advised)
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.
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 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 August 25
