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Walsall Local Policing Unit
Newsletter
July and August 2017
Issue
Welcome to the first Walsall Neighbourhood Policing Unit (NPU) Newsletter. This Newsletter aims to provide you, the communities of Walsall, with an understanding and insight into some of the work being undertaken by your local Neighbourhood Teams and other policing activity across the Borough.
With the school holidays upon us, we have been working with partners, preparing our partnership and policing response to the anticipated demand on services. You can follow some of our policing activity through #WalsallSummer.
How can you become more involved in supporting your local community? Both police and partners are keen to work with local communities to increase community participation in activities that will enhance community cohesion and pride. If you want to know what is happening within your area, then sign up to WMNow – a free community messaging service which is part of West Midlands Police’s ongoing commitment to keeping in touch with our local residents. Sign up here to start getting updates at:
www.wmnow.co.uk
Or if you are interested in becoming more actively involved in your community to improve local community safety and access to a small amount of funding could make it happen, then you may wish to contact Sergeant Nick Morton to discuss the suitability of your idea for Active Citizen funding. Active Citizens is funded by the Officer of for the Police and Crime Commissioner and is managed by the local Citizen’s Partnership which includes Walsall NPU, One Walsall, Walsall Council and Walsall College. For more details, please visit:
http://www.westmidlands-pcc.gov.uk/key-issues/active-citizens-fund/
I hope you find the articles within the Newsletter interesting and informative – if there are any items you would like to see covered in the future, then please let us know!
Jo Clews
Chief Superintendent
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Have You Signed Up for WM Now —
Our Great New Community Messaging
System Yet?
WMNow is a free community messaging service which is part of WMP’s ongoing commitment to keeping in touch with our local residents.
It is free to sign up to and you can register according to your interests and where you live and work.
You will receive updates about what’s happening in your area - whether it’s details of incidents, timely crime prevention advice, com-munity events or appeals for information, whatever you have told us you want to hear about.
Sign up here to start
getting up-
dates www.wmnow.co.uk
Where you can choose
to receive updates by
Email or by text message
to your mobile phone.
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The Police and Crime Commissioner's Active Citizens Fund has distributed £40,000 to good
causes in Walsall.
A total of 12 schemes have been awarded between £500 and £5,000 after working with local police of-
ficers, One Walsall and Walsall Council. The Active Citizens Fund sees criminals' ill-gotten gains used
for good in the community.
The 12 Walsall schemes are:
Parents Cyber Safety - £3,340 for an online safety course for parents to ensure their children are safe online.
Church Hill Litter Pick - £500 for fortnightly litter picks in the community.
Protecting Migrants from Exploitation - £4,000 for a scheme to safeguard young EU migrants from child sexual exploitation and employment exploitation.
Cultural Cooking - £4,240 for cooking classes in Birchills that are open to all members of the com-munity to build tolerance and unity.
Dreaming the Green - £5,000 for a new community artwork in Caldmore.
Keep Chuckery Tidy - £5,000 for a project to reduce littering and fly-tipping.
Report the Hate - £4,750 to tackle hate crime in Walsall.
Neighbours Together - £2,350 to build community spirit in Goscote and Blakenall via family picnics, sports days, neighbourhood events etc.
New Invention Community Tea Dance - £1,060 for two inter-generational tea dances in New Inven-tion and Short Heath.
Palfrey Pride - £3,797 to boost safety and neighbourliness in Palfrey via litter pick days and commu-nity events. Jembies Drum Café - £3,896 to work with young people and engage them in the arts. Mr T Project - £3,125 for self-defence and fitness classes for young people.
West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David
Jamieson announced the worthwhile projects at an
event at Walsall College.
PC Nick Morton, who is in charge of the Active Citizens
Fund in Walsall, added: "The Active Citizens funding
from the Police and Crime Commissioner has given a
number of community activists in Walsall the opportuni-
ty to bring their community projects to life.”
Anyone with ideas for a neighbourhood project in Wal-
sall that improves community safety can contact PC
Morton on [email protected] for
an information pack.
£40,000 Active Citizens Fund boost for Walsall
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Junior PCSO’s Take To The Streets.
Members of Willenhall Neighbourhood Policing Team have joined up with staff at
Pool Hayes primary to re-launch a Junior PCSO scheme in a bid to tackle parking
problems in nearby streets.
Willenhall Police Community Support Officer Suki Lally said, “three pupils go out
with a member of staff and take the registration numbers of illegally or
inconsiderately parked vehicles and the school then send out a warning letter. If
the same vehicle offends again the school
inform us and we then send out a warning
letter . The school sent a letter explaining
the scheme before it started and there has
already been an
improvement in Bridgnorth Grove, where
the school’s main gates are situated.
“We intend rolling out the Junior PCSO
scheme to other schools in Willenhall in
the near future.”
If you are interested in setting up a Junior
PCSO scheme at your school then con-
tact your local neighbourhood policing
team by dialling 101.
Follow Us On Twitter: Neighbourhood Teams:
Chief Insp. Jason Anderson - @CIJasonAnderson
Insp Sophie Worthington - @InspSophieWMP
Partnerships Team - @WSPartnersWMP
Walsall Task Force - @WSTaskForce
Do not use Twitter to report crime.
Phone us on 101 or 999.
@AldridgeWMP @BloxwichWMP @BrownhillsWMP @DarlastonWMP @DelvesWMP @PleckWMP @StMatthewsWMP @WillenhallWMP
Partnerships Officers Engage with Deaf Students
Working in partnership with Walsall College, officers from Walsall Police have
recently delivered a series of inputs to a potentially vulnerable group of deaf
students, discussing how they may avoid coming to harm.
PC Simon Bradley, who helped set up the sessions, said, “My colleague PC
James Lander and I delivered an input introducing our roles within the police
and offering a range of subjects for future sessions. At the students’
instigation, the second session saw us delivering a blended input covering hate
crime and radicalisation. The students engaged very well, asking very interest-
ing questions and raising their own points of view.
“As an organisation West Midlands Police is committed to protecting
vulnerable members of society.”
Do you know of a group of young (or ‘young at heart’) people who may benefit
from a discussion with police officers. If so, let us know! Call PC Simon Brad-
ley on 101, extension 889 6325.
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Walsall Police Go All Out to Bring Criminals In.
Between 3am on Tuesday 11 July and 6am the following day, police officers and staff in
Walsall joined colleagues from across the West Midlands in going ‘all out’ to arrest crimi-
nals and support victims. The day was a great success and will be repeated. Here are
just a few tweets and photos from the day.
Result!
15 people
arrested in
Walsall
More images and tweets from our ‘all out’ day…
We’ll be having more soon, follow us on Facebook, Twitter and of course
WM Now for news of how we get on.
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Produced by Walsall Police Partnerships Team. For more information or to comment contact Kevin Pitt on 101,
extension 889 6326 or email [email protected].
Cover photo: Paddock flats from the old police station by Kevin Pitt.
Result!
Outstanding logs
reduced by almost
one quarter.
