Contacting the police and changes in the local policing structure

OLD

From the 9th May 2011, Warwickshire Police went under a major changes.
The Safer Neighbourhood Team that was previously at Southam and consisted of:

• 4 PCSO's
• 2 Beat Police Officers
• 1 Reactive Police Officer (who covered all emergencies and this was 24hr cover)

NEW

The new Structure is as follows:
The Southam Safer Neighbourhood Team, still based at Southam Police Station consists of:

• 3 PCSO's
• 1 Beat Manager (Police Officer) PC James BUTLER
• and a small team of Specials who volunteer to work as Police Officers (but this is something they do in their spare time)
• The team at Southam cover 100sq miles

Neighbourhood Protection Team, two teams of 4 Police Officers that cover the whole County on specific jobs.
Incident Response Teams, which are made up of Police Officers and dispatch from Leamington, Rugby, Greys Mallory (Leamington) and Nuneaton on 24hr cover.

Southam and its surrounding area down to Gaydon, Farnborough and including the Priors area are now covered by the Rugby Incident Response team.

Investigation Team, made up of Police Officers where all crimes and incidents are now sent no longer dealt with locally.

Front office at Southam has now closed and has been moved to the Library under the new name of Warwickshire Direct and all enquiries are dealt with the Library staff who will contact us if required?

As for communications from the team, the Newsletter has been moved to Monthly so it's more managable for Staff and all NHW messages are via Julie DALE who is based at Leamington Police Station.

Farmwatch is a similar system to NHW for Farms and Rural Businesses, anyone in a rural location can join, and messages are sent out regarding any suspect vehicles or thefts relating to purely rural incidents. Although I have the Farmwatch list it has not been updated in 6 years so making sure that I have the correct details on over 300 contacts is going to take a while!

Useful Numbers:
The PCSO team mobile is 07919887674
PC James BUTLER is 07795052815
The station number is 01926 684984
Although this is not the number to report incidents or crimes on.
That number is 01926 415000 for non-emergencies, if the suspect is still on scene ask for Control Room, if the suspect is gone please ask for Crime Desk

In an Emergency always call 999

Any further questions please feel free to contact me.
Many Thanks,

Claire Murray
PCSO 6247

Southam Safer Neighbourhood Team
Southam Police Station
High St.
Southam
CV47 0HB