Hello, and welcome to your round up from the St Matthew’s Neighbourhood Policing Team. Keeping the different communities in St Matthew’s informed of just some of the activities that we have done recently.

Some things that we have been doing on our patch:

PC’s and PCSO’s from the team have been out and about recently in partnership with Greensquare Accord Housing Officers, visiting properties and locations across Caldmore, where issues such as Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) and neighbourhood issues have been causing problems within the projects and the wider community they are in. These visits are based on intelligence that is received from those people living in the community affected. In one case there were dogs found in a vacant property which required support from the dog unit.

We have been partnership working with Walsall Council Community protection team, patrolling and enforcing the PSPO within the town centre, as well as using the same powers to deal with the beggars that have been seen weaving in and out of traffic at the main Arboretum traffic lights. We will continue with this joint working, collecting evidence of preaches of the PSPO and issuing the appropriate Community Protection Warning and Community protection notices. 

The team have been conducting crime prevention surgeries in various locations including, places of worship, where members of the public have been able to drop in discuss issues that concern them in their community. 

We have taken part in Safer Business Action week in Walsall Town Centre where we used the mobile police station as a drop-in location for shoppers and also visits to retail businesses to discuss their own issues of concern. There was an arrest of a shoplifter as part of this operation.   Also, since the Safer Business Action Week PC’s on all 3 teams have made several arrests of shop lifting offenders.

Keeping in touch with us:

The teams are out and about in your community, please stop to say hello to us. 

To get in touch with us at St Matthew’s NHT about community issues or intelligence that is not a 999 emergency, you can use the following ways:

On line via stmatthews@west-midlands.pnn.police.uk

You can follow us on x (formerly Twitter) account @stmatthewsWMP

You can report crime, if it is not a 999 emergency, using: www.west-midlands.police.uk 

A thank you from the team:

For all volunteers that we have worked with and who have done their bit and continue to support their communities.

For those people who we have spoken with and have received intelligence from across the St Matthews patch. We are always happy to engage in conversation and listen to issues and concerns.

For those reading this update, if you would like to reply/rate this message, feel free to do so.

The St Matthew’s NHT