Welcome to Newtown Neighbourhood

If you would like to contact your local neighbourhood team you can do so by calling us on the number above, or clicking on the email address.

Please do not use email to report crime. If a crime is in progress, or a life in danger please dial 999. Otherwise, please call 0845 113 5000.

Action - community priorities

The priorities for Newtown neighbourhood are:

1. Excluded pupils
   It has been identified through community meetings that children who are attending classes for children excluded from school at St Georges Community Hub, Great Hampton Row are causing anti-social behaviour and minor theft in the Great Hampton Row area at lunch time and after school.
   
   Local People are being encouraged to report problems with the above to police when they happen to allow the best possible service. Our aim is to attend these incidents within 60 minutes.
2. Groups gathering in tower blocks around Great Hampton Row
   You told us that groups of people are gathering on landings in the tower blocks around the Great Hampton Row area. The neighbourhood team will increase patrols in the tower blocks in an effort to catch groups while they are there to prevent the nuisance this causes to residents. Please call us if this is causing you a problem at the time when the groups are there to enable us to get the best opportunity of catching them.

Answers - feedback and solutions

The following are the issues raised from our last neighbourhood meeting and what we are doing to tackle them:

• Anti-social behaviour in the Great Hampton Row/St Georges area
  Operation Velia was created to develop intelligence to find out who these young people were. Some were arrested for offences which had been reported to the police and these enquiries are still on going. The work the neighbourhood team did enabled us to show that it was the same few people causing the trouble. Since the arrests were made there has been a big drop in incidents of crime and antisocial behaviour in the area. The police will continue to work with the council and other organisations in the area to ensure that the kids concerned are able to attend local activities so that they will have something to do rather than cause trouble for local residents.
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• Christmas Shelter, St Georges Community Hub
  Following concerns from local residents about the Christmas Shelter for homeless people running at St Georges Community Hub over the Christmas period, the Newtown team met with St Georges and the organiser of the Birmingham Christmas Shelter. Both were keen to reduce the impact on the local community and given that residents were specifically concerned about guests at the shelter drinking in St Georges Park, they agreed to allow a section of their car park to be designated as an area where guests could drink which was staffed with security 24 hours a day. We received no complaints from the local community and the Birmingham Christmas Shelter ran successfully throughout the period. For more information please visit www.openchristmas.org.

Influence - over policing priorities

Your next neighbourhood police meeting or community surgery will be held on:

Meeting type: Police Surgery - Brearley/Treviot Childrens Centre

Friday 19 March 2010
08:45 am - 10:45 am
A police Surgery will take place at Brearley/Treviot Children's Centre, Brearley Street. Please come along to talk to your neighbourhood officers and voice any concerns or issues you may have. Visiors can also get advice and help with benefits, debt, housing, health and consumer rights.

For more information call Sgt Searley on 0845 113 5000 at Vyse Street Police Station.

Please come along to the meetings and help us identify what is important to you!

If you are unable to attend a neighbourhood meeting, but would like to put an issue forward for consideration as a priority, please email your local team with as much detail as possible using the email address above.

Newtown neighbourhood update

Please contact us using the telephone number or email address on this page with your concerns and we will get back to you. Stop us when we are out on patrol and have a chat with us. Officers on the team are in regular contact with people throughout the Newtown area who are able to tell us what is concerning local people and we act on these priorities.... Click here to read the full article.

Policing Pledge

Your local Neighbourhood team pledge to listen to your concerns, act on these concerns, and then keep you informed of the progress that's been made.

To find out more about our policing pledge and how it affects you and your neighbourhood, click onto the link below.

• Policing Pledge

Crime Statistics

Find out about crime levels in your neighbourhood

• My Neighbourhood (external site)

See also:

• Newtown Police and Communities Together Document

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