Weekly Force Update

Neighbourhood Update

Hello Resident. I hope you’re doing well.

I am Police Community Support Officer Ben Priest here to give you the weekly Neighbour Hood Update.

What has our team been doing?

This week our team have done a off-road bike operation where we have seized an off-road bike as well as speak to members of the public to gather intelligence on where other off-road bikes are being stored. What will help us gain warrants to the address what were given.

Upcoming events for August

Here you can find a list for our future community events with the following dates and times:

We have a Cuppa With A Coppa event at Milebrook Hall on 10/09/26 from 10:00-11:00 AM.

We have a Bike marking event at Woogate Valley Car park on 27/09/26 from 10:30-11:30 AM

We have a Cuppa With A Coppa event at Holloway Hall on 28/09/26 from 10:00-11:00 AM.

What’s been occurring in Bartley Green

Since the last WMNOW message, we have received three thefts of a motor vehicle. We advise you to ensure that your vehicle is locked and that any windows are fully up and not lowered. We also advise you to install extra security features such as a DISK Lock what will put offenders off from trying to steal your vehicle due to the added strain of the DISK lock. We also advise you to install a Gear stick/handbrake lock as this works just like a DISK Lock, but instead it is for your gear stick/handbrake.

We have also received two reports of criminal damage to a residence within the area of Bartley Green. We advise that you install ring doorbell cameras as well as CCTV Cameras to record any offences what are made. As this will help officers in their investigation in trying to identify any offenders and charge them for criminal damage.

Additional Information

We encourage residents to register their home/business CCTV and doorbell cameras, as this helps us to solve crimes and get a positive outcome, as your CCTV cameras can provide us the appropriate footage what captures the crime in question. This helps us solves crimes but also helps to keep your community safer. Use the link below to register your CCTV cameras by putting in the relevant details what the West Midlands Police website asks of you

CCTV Registry | West Midlands Police

As of this moment we currently have 1002 members signed up to Bartley Green on wmnow. If you know someone who may have an interest in joining, then please share them this links below, so that they can fill out the boxes the websites ask of them.

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 work 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 is 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.

Bartley Green Neighbourhood Team.