Current activities and recent events
Take a look below to find out about recent events, projects and initiatives supported by Bridgend Community Safety Partnership.
| OPERATION JAGUAR results in 524 arrests | |
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South Wales Police can confirm a total of 524 people have been arrested as a result of Operation Jaguar. Officers have swooped on drug dealers, burglars, car criminals and members of organised crime gangs, during a two-day blitz to crack down on crime. |
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| Opportunity for people who use drug and alcohol services to get more involved in planning them | |
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Bridgend Substance Misuse Action Team has arranged a series of workshops to support people who use drug and alcohol services to become more involved in how they are planned. The workshops are being delivered by New Link Wales and will give people the chance to develop skills in communication, managing meetings, how to be assertive as well as explaining how drug and alcohol services are planned. |
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| Bridgend childrens information service annual fun day 2008 | |
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Our Annual Exhibition & Fun Day took place at the Bridgend Recreation Centre on Thursday 3rd April. This year's theme was ‘The Circus’, organisers and stand holders dressed up as clowns and ringmasters to add to the fun. |
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| Blaencaerau pupils get hooked | |
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Wales and Ospreys star James Hook gave the pupils of Blaencaerau junior school in Caerau a thrill when he paid a visit to the school. |
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| Ospreys & South Wales Police Team Up To Tackle Youth Offending | |
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The Ospreys have unveiled details of an innovative new community initiative, which will see more than one hundred Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) and youth workers qualify as rugby coaches in its first year in a bid to tackle issues of social inclusion in the area. |
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| Paws on Patrol | |
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Working together, Making the GarwValley a safer place to live, work and visit. Have you ever seen something, whilst out walking your dog that you would of liked to report to the police, but were concerned you may be wasting their time or just thought maybe it wasn’t important enough? Or you thought the police may already know? |
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| Don't be a victim of purse dipping | |
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Bridgend Police have received around 45 reports of ‘purse dipping’ in the Bridgend sector since the beginning of December 2007. The victims are elderly females whose purses have been taken from unopened handbags or shopping bags. |
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| Safer Bridgend Jump on the Bag Wagon | |
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People in Bridgend are being encouraged to ditch plastic bags and use more environmentally friendly re-usable bags. |
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| Local MP Huw Irranca-Davies Joins Ogmore and Garw Valley Neighbourhood Policing Team and Forest Crime Officer PC Andrew Scourfield | |
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South Wales Police has delivered on the promise to establish a named point of contact in every neighbourhood, along with dedicated teams, as part of our Neighbourhood Policing Programme. These officers are accessible to communities and work in partnership to solve problems. |
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| Garw rules info day a success | |
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Safer Bridgend Community Safety Partnership successfully hosted the first anti-social behaviour information day on Saturday in the VETZ club in Pontycymer. |
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