Business Watch has now been conducted for the Yew Tree and Swan Shopping Centre. We will be continuing these going forward and at the moment it is agreed these take place every 2 months with business owners. Some business owners on the Coventry road will also be invited to attend as an extension of the area and issues. Business owners expressed both positives and negatives on the area of the ongoing concerns. We are working on those areas that need to be improved and we will continue to maintain any of the positives. In these meetings, our Offender 2 Recovery officers attended with clients and CGL to share their personal stories and they gave businesses ideas how they can improve on security and understand the background to those committing offences. Businesses have found this to be very insightful and interesting, as this scheme can support those offenders considered prolific to get the help but, this is not something that works overnight. This is can take months of work for the officers and CGL to support the individual to be involved in the programme. 
Here is a photo of us after the Business watch meeting, from left to right 
Duke, PC Smith 24624, James and PC Manboard 0647 (part of the O2R team). 

James and Duke are both clients of O2R and both are working hard to give back to the community every day. 
 

We have planned in some Speedwatch operations for the coming months to reduce the ASB driving and speeding on our roads in the area. Please continue to send in your reports to Operation Snap should you have anything of this nature and have recorded this upon CCTV/Dashcam. Please click here to report: Operation Snap | West Midlands Police