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The Link Magazine • April 2006

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^^0N l e) Purton House Wrongdoers watch out as
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CATERING ASSISTANT police double West team
Purton, Swindon Term Time and Permanent
Required From: Current term 'We're coming to get you.' That's the message Wiltshire Police are
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12 hours per week (term time only) sending out to criminals and people behaving in an anti-social way
(£5.64 — £6.97 per hour)
in West Swindon.
Bridlewood Primary School requires a
Catering Assistant to join a successful and The West Area Forum on 13
professional in-house catering team. Applicants March was told that from 3 April
r^, nI ' p, aC q4ge1^ need to be reliable and punctual with a positive the number of neighbourhood po-
attitude and the ability to work under pressure.
Call for details about our The post entails helping to prepare, cook lice officers in the west will in-
and serve food at lunchtime, as well as crease from two full time and one
Organic Box Scheme undertaking cleaning duties. Previous catering
experience would be an advantage, as would part-time officers, plus one police
Vegetables • Fruit • Meat • Eggs a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate. community support officer (PCSO)
Deliveries & drop off points in Swindon, Please contact Mrs Denise Barkham on to 6 full and one part-time officers t
Cirencester. Wootton Bassett, Broad 01793 706830 or email and two PCSOs.
[email protected] for an
Hinton. Marlborough, Wroughton Inspector Willie Glasgow be-
application form and further details.
www.purton-house.co.uk lieves they will have a significant "
CLOSING DATE: 19'" APRIL 2006
effect on crime and anti-social be- -
haviour across the area. •^
He explained to the meeting that
Worried about the shutting of Westlea police sta- Criminals toill soon be seeing more of
tion and the move to Gablecross in Inspector Willie Glasgow and his team
the shortfall on East Swindon had resulted in crime and anti-social behaviour in
fewer police hours on the beat in Toothill, Freshbrook and Grange
your Endowment the west. "I've been aware of corn- Park.
plaints about the police presence Westlea and Shaw are low crime
Policy? in the area for some months and areas, but Shaw residents de-
I'm not happy about the levels of manded more attention for Shaw
crime in some parts of the area. Ridge and Shaw Village Centre
With more personnel on the beat where elderly people living in
we're going to bear down oncrimi- George Tweed Gardens are har-
For a friendly and personal service call us now on nals and youth carrying on with assed by young people. Insp Glas-
01793 740011 and we can help you with your claim low level misbehaviour." gow said he will ask the beat man-
He said during the 2005-06 ac- ager to follow up these concerns.
Endowment Support £td counting year reported crime will To illustrate the effect of neigh-
www.endowmentsupport.co.uk have fallen in the Freshbrook and bourhood policing, Insp Glasgow
Grange Park ward and also the said, "in January we increased the
Shaw & Nine Elms ward, number of officers allocated to
But in the Toothill ward it will Pinehurst. As a result crime is
have increased from 733 in 2004- down 20 per cent and nuisance
05 to over 800. The level of serious reports by 50 per cent. I am expect-
crime - house burglaries and vio- ing a similar trend in West Swin-
lence against the person - has don."
dropped, but the reports of gen- All police forces must have
eral thefts, i.e. from garden sheds, brought in Community Neigh-
and vehicle crime has risen. bourhood Teams by 2008. By then
Insp Glasgow said West Swin- every area of the town should have
larger dedicated groups of officers
don is to be split into two neigh-
H1 1?4 Ii bourhood beat teams. Initially ef- and PCSOs working to deal with
crime and anti-social activity.
fort will be focussed on sorting out
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