Weekly Force Update

Hello Resident, your local PCSO, PCSO Priest here, I hope you are well.

We would like to update you on what we have been doing in the Bartley Green area this week:

. Officers have attended two coffee mornings throughout the time we have been in, and it was great to see people and speak to people about any concerns and issues they may be facing or worried about within the Bartley Green community. Officers even joined in with our local The Conservation Volunteers, or for short TCV, in the actives they had available at Milebrook hall as the group aims to improve physical and mental health by being out doors and connected with others.

. Officers have also attended a street watch walk on the Kitwell lane area and the surrounding estates. Officers and members of the street watch group have gone around speaking to members of the public asking them if they are all right and if they have any issues about the local area they would like to talk about and raise to officers. 

Since the last WMNOW message, we have received two reports of a dangerous dog near the fields of Scotland Lane. In these two separate reports the dog’s have been attacking other dogs what people have been taking out for a walk. The attacking dogs are described as black Pitbull like size dogs. We advise those walking their dogs near Scotland lane to be careful about their surroundings as we do not want other dogs to be hurt. 

Since the last WMNOW message, we have had two reports of cars being stolen with in the area of Bartley Green. This is when people try and chance their way into an unlocked vehicle if the vehicle owner has forgotten to lock their vehicle after leaving it. We advise you to take the necessary steps to keep your vehicle safe, such as firstly making sure your vehicle is locked after leaving it unattended. We advise you to install a disklok to your vehicles steering wheel as people will see the disklok on your steering wheel and will be put off and will be less likely to attempt to gain entry to your vehicle. We also advise you to take out any valuables from your vehicle and take out any bags, even if they are empty. As when people look inside the car, they will not see anything of value and will not attempt to gain entry to the vehicle due to the lack of reward.

We regularly deal with drivers who decide to park up wherever they please, what can then cause issues within the area what can block home owners from entering or leaving their home, or can cause residents to have to walk in the middle of the road due to how cars have blocked the pavement. We work with multiple members of the community such as local authority, educational houses such as schools. And we try and tackle these issues together through multiple different avenue’s, such as warnings, fines etc. But we are not always present to issue these and tackle them together. But we do have a solution what can benefit everyone, and get you more involved in tackling the issues yourselves. In the link below this paragraph, it will take you to our West Midlands Police page where you can report vehicles what park dangerously, or is abandoned, or if someone is parking on your driveway or blocking your driveway etc. Each option will have a clickable link next to it where you can put in the necessary information through a list of questions. Once it is all filled in, it will be sent to a specialist team for review so they can deal with the issue reported to us.

Parking issues and abandoned vehicles | West Midlands Police

A helpful resident has reported to us that the website the link above takes you to, was down when they went to report a vehicle causing an obstruction. Thankfully, Birmingham City Council also have a website similar to ours, what allows you to report vehicles causing an obstruction. 

We do advise you to use ours, but if it is ever the case where our website is down then please use this link below as a second resort to reporting the issue you see and face.

Report an illegally parked vehicle | Birmingham City Council

We still encourage residents to register their home/business CCTV and doorbell cameras, as this helps us solve crimes by providing us the appropriate footage what captures the crime in question. This not only helps us solves crimes, but it also helps to keep your community safer. 

You can use the link below, what takes you to our web page where you can register your CCTV cameras by putting in your details. This helps officers be able to get in contact with you if they believe your CCTV camera has potential digital footage of a crime being committed, as they can see the local area where has crime has took place, and see your CCTV camera present in that area. This will help officers in dealing with crimes more quickly and swiftly, what will then allow them to do more jobs, helping to make the community a safer place.

CCTV Registry | West Midlands Police

As of this moment we are still currently at 1022 members who have signed up on wmnow for Bartley green. 

I believe in the saying ‘the more the merrier’, so if you know someone who may have an interest in joining, then please share them this link below. This will take them to the wmnow websites homepage, where they can create an account by clicking the sign-up button, and then put in the necessary information. Once everything is done and the account is created, they can then receive force update messages from their local Neighbour team. This helps to bring a community together and gives us the chance to receive information and intelligence about anything going on in the area.

Home Page - WMnow

We are still experiencing an increase of demand from across the area over the last few weeks, with more people calling and asking for help. Our staff are working extremely hard to answer and respond to your calls and live chats. But due to the high demand it can cause callers to have to wait longer than they should, what if something neither of us want at all. We prioritize your enquires/calls based on how urgent they are, but we always appreciate that you want help as soon as possible.

In Non-emergencies circumstances, we want you to get in contact with us through the live web chat, or the Non-emergency telephone 101.

If your circumstances are emergencies, then please call 999.

We are still looking to recruit for the Street watch initiative. For further information please visit the WMP website for details. 

You can use the link below what will take you to our page where the necessary steps to register your interest in the street watch programme, can be made.

Street Watch | West Midlands Police

Bartley Green Neighbourhood Team.