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Safer Neighbourhoods Team in Southampton to set priorities for next six months

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Published: 09/09/2008


Safer Neighbourhoods police officers in the Shirley area of Southampton will be holding a community engagement meeting tomorrow, Wednesday September 10, to find out about the policing issues that matter most to local people.

They’ll then use that information to set their policing priorities in the area for the next six months.

Those invited to the meeting will include all the Neighbourhood Watch co-ordinators, ward councillors and community leaders. The invite only meeting will cover the areas of Shirley, Freemantle and Regents Park.

It will take place tomorrow from 7pm at Freemantle School, Mansion Road and around 70 people are expected to turn up.

Members of the Safer Neighbourhoods team will also be updating the meeting about what’s been done to tackle the current policing priorities in the area.

More information about some of the work the team have been doing can be found on this website by following this link: Hampshire Constabulary: Shirley, Regents Park and Freemantle Safer Neighbourhoods team.

Safer Neighbourhoods Sergeant for the area Mark Barker said: “We have worked really hard over the past 12 months to set up many Neighbourhood Watch schemes, there are now around 50 in the area. This has enabled us to find new and effective ways to engage with the communities.”

“As a resident of a community myself away from work, I know what annoys me and my neighbours where I live and what I feel should be community priorities for my local police. The chances are that the police never know about these things unless they set up some sort of community consultation process similar to what we’ve set up here in Shirley.”

“It is important that as well as dealing with the serious crime, the local police are also dealing effectively with the low level issues which impact on residents in those areas affected.  We are a public service so it is only natural that we should tackle those issues that matter most to the community”

“These community meetings have brought to light some issues we probably wouldn’t have known about previously.” 


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