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The Link Magazine • July 2003 7
Crime & Disorder team up to strength
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and aiming for a safer Swindon The UNBEATABLE
Swindon's Crime and Disorder team has a new head and is working Pi r
hard to coordinate strategies to tackle crime.
Set up under the Crime and Dis- These include the establishment of
order Act 1998, the police and lo- six Neighbourhood Safety Teams
cal authorities are required to form (NeSTs) which involve residents SALE
partnerships with community or- and businesses in identifying and
ganisations to share information addressing safety concerns at a
and worktogether to reduce crime, local level. In the last year a street
disorder and the fear of crime, warden pilot scheme has started
The increasing effectiveness of in Parks and Walcot and a Junior
the partnership is demonstrated Good Citizen Award has been
in the development of a range of launched in 27 schools across the
community safety initiatives. town.
if

Sorting out Crime and Disorder, front, Site Tilley, Crime and Disorder Manager
with team members from left, Jane Dudley, NeST coordinator; Carol Woods and
Sharon Large, administrators; Inspector Simon Dicks, Wiltshire Constabulary
liaison officer; Cheri Wright, Anti Social Behaviour Co-ordirtator; Jean Goncalves,
manager of the Safer Swindon Shop; Julie Riggs, Vulnerable Persons' Develop-
ment Officer; Emma Payn, Safer Swindon Shop customer care assistant
Safer Swindon in London
Safer Swindon Shop manager Jean Goncalves attended a Parliamentary
Reception in the House of Commons in June to inform MPs about the
work of the Community Legal Services and the help constituents could
receive when requiring good quality legal advice or Legal Aid.

Parliamentary reception from South Swindon MP Julia Drown, centre, with from
left, Geoff Mountjoy, Regional Director Legal Services Commission, Ellen Wilkins
District Manager Swindon and Wiltshire, Jean Goncalves Safer Swindon Shop
manager, Karen Wilkinson, District Manager Swindon and Wiltshire -

Home on the range. From Swindon to Montana
Imagine becoming a cowboy for a week, driving thousands of head
of cattle on the dusty trail from the remote highlands of Montana in
the USA down to the railhead - just like in the old movies.
Keen rider Denise Jones from Nine Elms has Pi ne .Cane
signed up for a cattle drive in August and is
seeking sponsorship with all proceeds going to
the International League for the Protection of High St 34 WOOD ST.
Horses. OLD TOWN,
Pine & Cane
"I'll be joining horse wranglers who do this SWINDON
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every year for a living and I'm told it's ex-
Devizes Road Tel: (01793) 535320
tremely tough," said Denise. Victoria Rd wioughton-1
Call Denise about sponsorship on 778070 or — 1 gown C o„ EASY OPEN : Monday to Saturday
attend her Race Night at the Nine Elms Pub on 3 ^ PARKING 9.00am till 5.30pm.
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12 July to raise money for the ILHP. in Old Town Sunday : 10.30 am till 4.30pm.
Denise on her horse Millie