Hedge End North NPT - Bank Holiday Weekend Update

Hedge End North NPT - Bank Holiday Weekend Update

Good evening all,

We hope you enjoyed the lovely May bank holiday and made the most of the mainly good weather, if you were lucky enough to be having the weekend off, or even one day off.

Your local Hedge End North team were very busy and proactive over the BH weekend and here is a little look at some of the jobs that were completed on Friday, Saturday and Sunday late duties, by PC Amanda, PC Chris, PCSO Mica and PCSO Colin.

Even Sgt Ralph was keen to get away from his desk, and went out on foot patrol around Hedge End with the PCs.

Our PCSOs were out on cycle patrols of all three Beats - Hedge End, West End and Botley, and they literally did not stop! If you see our team out on foot and cycle patrols, please do stop them and have a chat.

Our PCs were busy as usual investigating jobs and making lots of Crime enquiries, so they always have lots of paperwork to complete. But this weekend their jobs also included:

PC Amanda completing Safeguarding visits to elderly and young persons - giving advice on how to keep safe from Rogue Traders/Scams/Fraud etc.

Also completing Beat patrols on foot and patrol car to various areas of Hedge End North, including an area targeted by Rogue Traders (fraudsters committing doorstep crime) and patrolling local parks / recreation areas.

She has also been busy gathering Intelligence, which will greatly help us to target drug use and dealing/supply in certain areas of Hedge End North Beats.

PC Chris was also working with DPT (quite often an NPT officer can be required to assist other teams) and has made two arrests of outstanding suspects involved in:

A nasty Robbery in Southampton whereby a security guard had his eye socket and cheekbone broken.

Also arrested was a female suspect for shoplifting in the Next retail store, Hedge End. She was also arrested for a FTA (fail to appear) for a previous shoplifting. Both suspects were processed through our Custody unit at Southampton Central station by PC Chris. This can be a lengthy and time consuming process.

As you are probably aware, PCSOs generally complete the majority of NPT patrols, and this weekend was exceptionally busy for PCSO Mica and trainee PCSO Colin.

Friday 1st May:-

Safeguarding visit for an elderly Scam victim in West End who transferred £750 as a result of a ‘Hi Mum’ text scam.

Foot patrol of West End High Street, Townhill Shops and Hedge End centre.

Bike marking event at Boorley Green Sports Pavilion - 5 bikes were marked and to Bike Register (a free service).

Visited the youth group at Boorley Park.

Foot patrol of Dowds Farm Park and Minchin Acres pond. Spoke to several groups of young people and politely asked 3 young people to get down from the youth shelter roof (for their own safety). Spoke to a group of 30+ young people gathered in the area of the shelter. Some of the young people took selfies with us. All of them were polite and causing no issues, it was lovely to see so many young people out enjoying the fresh air and public spaces made for them. Several groups fishing in the ‘No Fishing’ pond were asked to stop fishing and the dangers to people and wildlife was explained. All the ponds around the Dowds Farm Estate are all wildlife ponds, NOT fishing ponds.

Sat 2nd May:-

Beat Surgery held at Boorley Park Sports Pavilion.

Advice given to an event organiser at a local hall, whereby an attendee was seen to misuse the one way road (therefore committing a Road Traffic offence.

Patrol of St Lukes / Shamblehurst Lane South areas. (We have received some reports of increased ASB in this area, and it will become one of our Summer Hotspot patrol areas, along with Dowds Farm Park (Wellstead and Whites Way Estate).

Sunday 3rd May:-

17.8 mile high vis proactive cycle patrols, including Greta Park, Turnpike Rec & Pavilion, Woodhouse Skate Park, Dowds Farm Park, St Lukes / Shamblehurst Lane South areas.

Moved on 2 more groups fishing in Minchin Acres ‘No Fishing’ pond.

Carried out a home visit to a young people at risk (Safeguarding)

Phone call to the guardian of another young person at risk.

Patrolled area connected to a neighbour dispute.

Patrolled area connected to drug use.

Patrolled an area of damage and fire setting, mentioned at the Boorley Green Beat Surgery yesterday.

Stopped to speak to 3 young men who were dressed all in dark clothing, with a bike, stood in a residential walkway, suspected of cannabis use (we could smell the Class B drugs) but 2 of them quickly left the area. The remaining male (under 18) was spoken to, parent informed and Intel obtained.

This is just some of the jobs completed by our team, and as you can see, there is never a dull moment!

The attached Map is courtesy of PCSO Mica - from some of their cycle patrols over the weekend.

As ever, if you have any concerns or worries about problems and issues in your community, please do give us a call -

101 for non-emergencies and 999 for emergencies (if you or others are at risk of harm).

Or visit us at one of our many monthly Beat Surgeries - advertised via Hampshire Alerts, Hedge End Facebook page, Police website - www.Hampshire.police.uk , local community notice boards and your community Parish/Town Council websites.

Please come and talk to us face to face. We are looking at our Summer priorities and patrol plans, and want to know what concerns you and where you would like to see us. (YOU SAID - WE DID).

Hedge End North Team are now on well-deserved rest days and will be back on Wednesday morning. See you then!

We leave you in the capable hands of our DPT 24/7 Response teams.

Thank your for reading, and lastly a quick shout out to Hedge End Rangers youth football team who won their game on Saturday at Stoneham (4-2!) Well done all! It was great to see some of you celebrating in Hedge End village centre on Saturday! All in all a very productive weekend!

PCSO 14468 Tracey Chilcott

Hedge End North Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT)

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