Current activities and recent events

PCSO Philemon and PCSO Wesgate were asked to help out in Clych Meithrin Nursery, a welsh nursery based at the Tabernacl Church Hall in Porthcawl, as the children were learning about people who are there to help.

Anti social behaviour crackdown within the Ogmore Valley following the success of Operations Benedict and Bellflower.

Following an increase in reported incidents of anti social behaviour being committed by local youths who were responsible for disabling First Cymru buses as they stopped to pick up and drop off passengers on Ogwy Street, Nantymoel members of the Ogmore Valley Neighbourhood Policing team (NPT) put together a special operation to deal with the problem.

Speeding drivers, defective vehicles and mobile phone use were all targeted as part of National Specials Weekend in Porthcawl.

The Neighbourhood Policing team for Ynysawdre have been working with

Bridgend County Borough Council’s (BCBC) Enforcement Officer to step up patrols of the local parks and playing fields - areas where dog fouling has become an increasing problem.

A triage unit will be set up in the town centre to treat revellers needing medical attention on Saturday 6th February, Saturday 13th February, Friday 26th February, Saturday 13th March and Saturday 20th March between 10pm and 4am.

Residents from Brackla be aware that PCSO Steve Bowen of the Neighbourhood Policing Team is holding a series of Crime Prevention Tables at the Co-op over the next couple of months. The first one was held on Wednesday, 27th January between 4pm and 6pm.

The Maesteg Neighbourhood Policing team has been working closely with the residents of a sheltered housing development and their landlord to try and improve security at the scheme.

The Neighbourhood Policing Teams in Litchard and Brackla have been running a special operation targeting illegal motorists in the area. Last week (January 20th) local police officers and PCSOs were joined by members of the Roads Policing Unit to stage an ANPR exercise which resulted in a number of significant successes.

Crime figures in Bridgend released by the Home Office show that crime in the borough has decreased during the 12 months to September 2009, when compared with the same 12 months the previous year.

Members of Porthcawl’s Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT), Police Constable Chris Bluck and Police Community Support Officer Leighton Rees, were on a crest of a wave at Rest Bay car park recently when they spent a day pioneering a new scheme designed to help the area’s keen surf lovers called “Surfers Watch” as well as giving out crime prevention advice.