Updated 7/4/12

Community Policing Update link:     Rural Abingdon April 2012

 If you would like to receive these messages by Email, please use the link in the "Community Messaging" section or Email keith.stammers@btinternet.com

"Have Your Say" Meetings with the Police

Our local, Community Police want to meet you, and they arrange regular meetings around the area. The dates and times of the next few meetings can be found here.

Community Messaging:

Community Messaging is a free service which provides information to subscribers about crime and police activity in their area via phone or email. It also includes information on what we and our partner services are doing to bring offenders to justice or combat anti-social behaviour. More information can be obtained via our website, and you can sign up by following this link: http://www.tvpcommunitymessaging.org/rmwebportal/startup.aspx’   

Contact the Community Police Team

Sgt. KLevin Hickman	PC Carl Bryant			PCSO Lisa Prime	PCSO Andy McCormack

If you want any advice or would like to contact the neighbourhood team you can call us on the police non emergency number 101 but if your call is an emergency then dial 999. You can also contact us via email (please see each area above) please note this email address cannot be used to contact Thames Valley Police to report crimes or for any urgent matters. If you have information about crime or Anti Social Behaviour in your area but you do not want to speak to the police, please call the Crimestoppers charity on 0800 555111. To view information on your neighbourhood team you can visit the force website at: www.thamesvalley.police.uk 

To report local problems such as graffiti, fly tipping, pot holes and broken street lights please visit www.fixmystreet.com

Rogue Traders and Doorstep Selling

Difficult economic times always produce an increase in scams of one kind or another and doorstep selling is an easy one for the more dubious entrepreneur. It is good practice to be aware of how one can avoid being troubled by such rogues and the Oxfordshire County Council website has some very good advice, not only for avoiding the criminals but how to find approved traders.

If you would like to browse the website, try this:

http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk

Click on "Business" at the bottom left of the screen.

Under "Trading standards", click on "Doorstep crime" then "Find out more"

Alternatively, if you can spare only a few milliseconds, use the following link directly: Oxfordshire County Council Rogue Traders

The page contains a useful "No Cold-Callers" label that you can print out and attach to your door along with a matching label for the inside of the door with the 'phone number of Trading Standards. There is also a short video of the Police on a Trading Standards mission - for those with ultra-fast broadband.

Approved Traders

Not all traders are rogues, I'm told, and the following link contains an A-to-Z list that might help you in selecting a variety of tradesmen Oxfordshire County Council Approved Traders

Neighbourhood Watch

Recent Neighbourhood Watch circulars may be found via the "Recent Crime Information" link. 

To find out about Neighbourhood Watch in Appleton-with-Eaton, please contact:

keith.stammers@btinternet.com or phone 862781.

Community Policing Update links:  
Rural Abingdon August 2011
Rural Abingdon September 2011
(Sorry: I lost October's!)
Rural Abingdon November 2011

Rural Abingdon December 201

Rural Abingdon January 2012

Rural Abingdon February 2012