Update on neighbourhood policing
At November’s Neighbourhood Action Group (NAG) meeting, the group identified several locations as suffering from anti-social behaviour as a result of youths gathering. The Westgate centre, Chipping Norton, continues to be a problem, and several of the young people involved will now be approached by West Oxfordshire’s Anti-Social Behaviour team in relation to signing up to Acceptable Behaviour Contracts (ABCs). The level of reported anti-social behaviour at the Spendlove centre, Charlbury, has dropped following the introduction of letters to parents of mis-behaving youths. The NAG is researching the availability of subsidised transport, to enable young people from the more rural villages to travel to events in other areas.
At the public meetings held in October/November, the second priority raised by the community was that of speeding. The NAG is looking at the following locations as potential speeding concern sites;
Spring Street, Worcester Road, Churchill Road & London road, (Chipping Norton). The Slade, Enstone Road, Market Street, Ditchley road & Pound Hill, (Charlbury). Middle Barton to Enstone road. Barton Road, Sandford St Martin. A361, Shipton under Wychwood. Milton under Wychwood. Burford to Ascott link road. Churchill road, Kingham. Parish councils and local residents have proposed the above locations, which will now be assessed to establish the extent of the speeding problem. Each road will be visited by a roadside SID (Speed Indicator Device) operator, and we are still looking for volunteers from the community to help with staffing the SIDs. If you are one of the people who believes speeding to be a problem in your area, then please consider giving up a few hours to help solve it.
Following concerns from the community in relation to the new licensing laws, the neighbourhood team have carried out a number of licensing checks across the area, and found an extremely high rate of compliance. These checks will continue throughout 2006, so please let the neighbourhood team know if you have concerns about specific premises. Over the next few months the neighbourhood team will be assisting with the setting up of pub-watch schemes across the neighbourhood. These will be based on the successful formula employed by the Chipping Norton pubwatch scheme, and we hope that all licensees will want to sign up.
For more information about your local neighbourhood policing team, or to discuss any issues in the community, please contact Sgt Clare Mackintosh on 08458 505 505 or via chippyneighbourhood@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
Clare Mackintosh · Wed 4 Jan 2006, 20:15 · Link