KINGTON LANGLEY ANNUAL PARISH MEETING
TUESDAY 27 MARCH 2007

POLICE REPORT
PC HEATHER BARHAM

My apologies for not speaking to you personally, but hope this highlights what plans lay ahead regarding the policing of Kington Langley.

Most of you will know me already as I have been the Community Beat officer for Kington Langley. I have now taken up the position of Neighbourhood Beat Manager for Chippenham Rural North. This includes Kington Langley.

The role of the Neighbourhood policing teams will be to provide effective neighbourhood policing having a dedicated team of officers and staff working in partnership with local communities and other agencies to identify and address issues of local concern. It is about improving the quality of policing and increasing police visibility and generating greater public confidence in the services that we provide.

The community will benefit from having more visible and accessible policing: regular contact with and direct access to the same local officers.

Having a better say: more effective ways of identifying and responding to what local people see as priorities and taking action to tackle them.

Regular opportunities to meet with the Neighbourhood policing teams to discuss issues of concern within the village.

At the end of April you should see an article in the Gazette identifying members of the policing teams in each area. As yet the other members of my team have not been selected, but you will be made aware of these as soon as I know.

I hope to attend more Parish Council meetings in the future and I will also be meeting on a regular basis with the school to identify all crime and community issues in order to deal with them quickly and efficiently.

Successful neighbourhood policing is very reliant on communication between police and the community so any issues you have, should be brought to my attention. This can be done anonymously if preferred, but I can not act on issues that I am not informed of.

I am aware that there have been issues in the village of a drug related nature and this is being tackled at the moment. I will keep the Parish Council Chairman, Cllr. Peter Hart, updated on developments with our enquiries.

I am also aware that we have had problems with youth egg throwing from a vehicle, this is not only annoying but is criminal and they will be dealt with accordingly when identified.

If you have any information on the above issues please let me or your neighbourhood watch co­ordinator [Cllr. Dennis Gill] know immediately.