Residents in Highbridge are being offered the chance to get closer to their Neighbourhood Policing Team.
Community Beat Manager PC Gwilym Starks (pictured below) and Police Community Support Officer Sam Haydon are holding community beat surgeries every Thursday between 10am and 11am at the National Blind Children’s Society’s offices in Church Street.
The surgeries give members of the public a chance to meet their local officers as well as discuss any concerns they might have or ideas for policing their neighbourhood.
PC Starks said: “Anyone who is interested in local policing or has any issues they might want to discuss they are welcome to attend one of the surgeries.”
“We appreciate not everyone feels comfortable in or around a police station, so the surgeries are held in the National Blind Children Society’s offices in informal surroundings.”
As well as the new surgeries, the force’s Community Contact Vehicle will be on show in the Bank Street Car Park, Highbridge, on Monday, April 2, 2007.
Officers from the Neighbourhood Policing will be available to property mark mobile phones, i-pods and bicycles as well as any other items brought along.
PC Starks added: “Property marking is a very important crime reduction tool. If you are unfortunate to have something stolen, if it is marked, you are much more likely to have it returned to you.”
