Over the last seven months the small recess area at the end of the lane that gives access to the rugby field at the top of Pen Y Fai Road has become a hotspot for anti social behaviour i.e. fly tipping, drug use, criminal damage and sexual behaviour. All these crimes are vehicle related especially after dark.

Safer Bridgend and Wales Rugby League launch their second year of Street Rugby in the Bridgend area this week with the first of four festivals.

Safer Bridgend Partners have once again joined forces with the community to secure an order to evict nightmare neighbours from their privately rented home and close down the property.

In recent weeks the Maesteg and Caerau Neighbourhood Policing Teams have been working together to reduce anti-social behaviour and underage drinking throughout their wards.

Neighbourhood Police officers in Bridgend were able to react swiftly to take steps to stop an illegal party planned for Newbridge Fields earlier this month (10 April).

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.

As part of the preparations for Hallowe’en and Guy Fawkes Night South Wales Police and its partners launched Operation Bang, a successful community safety campaign aimed at reducing anti social behaviour, providing high visibility public reassurance and educating young people about the dangers of fireworks and the consequences of irresponsible and unruly conduct.

The Crusaders’ first ever Street Rugby League competition took place on Friday 30th October at the South Wales Police Grounds in Bridgend.

Street Rugby League is a joint initiative between Safer Bridgend and the Crusaders and provides youngsters with an opportunity to be coached by the Crusaders along with Police and Police Community Support Officers.

Safer Bridgend are working with the Celtic Crusaders to invite young people around the borough to try something positive and different called Street Rugby League.

13 ASBO referrals were given out across the Ogmore Valley from Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd May after police held a targeted operation to crackdown on youth annoyance and underage drinking.

Residents were forced to call the police on a regular basis as large groups of young people aged 15 – 25 were smoking, drinking alcohol, starting small fires and playing loud music in an L-shaped sheltered walkway that ran underneath the Duffryn Flats building.

4 youths in Nantymoel received anti-social behaviour referrals this week after South Wales Police launched a crackdown on youth annoyance in the OgmoreValley.

Operation Firefly was run by Police and partner agencies throughout the weekends of August to try to reduce anti-social behaviour throughout BridgendCounty.

Safer Bridgend Community Safety Partnership successfully hosted the first anti-social behaviour information day on Saturday in the VETZ club in Pontycymer.

We’ve all had something to do with a school bully. Whether we are the bully, have been bullied, tried to sort out the situation or reported it to a teacher, or even just seen news reports on how bad the situation is getting, we all know it exists. Unfortunately these days, bullying is now not the only problem in schools, as anti-social behaviour creeps slowly into schools, and is reflected in the wider community.

The Bridgend Borough remained quiet over the Bonfire and Halloween period with calls over the two nights hitting an all time low.

Total reported incidents for Halloween stood at 21, and only a dozen calls were made over bonfire night.

Bridgend Police is gearing itself up for what has traditionally become the busiest time of year.

With celebrations for Halloween and Bonfire Night fast approaching a concerted effort is once again being undertaken by South Wales Police, in liaison with the Fire and Rescue Service, the Education Authority, Trading Standards and Retailers to reduce the number of incidents reported over this period.

The Garw policing teams in conjunction with CCTV have taken tough action on a repeat group of troublemakers at the square in Pontycymer.

Between the 22nd and 27th of September, a joint operation took place at the Bowls Hall Car Park at Bridgend Recreation Ground after intelligence was received from local residents about anti-social behaviour that was occurring in the area.

The Aberkenfig Neighbourhood Policing Team has conducted a PACT led Operation called Ladon to tackle Anti Social Behaviour, resulting in 114 positive actions throughout Aberkenfig, Sarn, and Ynysawdre.

The Ogmore and Garw Valley Neighbourhood Policing Team have conducted a PACT led Operation called Cubism to tackle Anti Social Behaviour, resulting in 129 positive actions throughout the Ogmore and Garw Valley.

A local man with a history of drink-related anti-social behaviour has been given a five-year anti-social behaviour order after breaching an earlier ASBO.

The Ogmore Valley Neighbourhood Policing Team has carried out a Pact led Operation named Denver to target anti social behaviour in the Blackmill, Nantymoel, Ogmore Vale, and Pant-Yr-Awel areas.

The Ogmore Valley Neighbourhood Policing Team has carried out Operation Casper, to tackle vehicle related crime in Ogmore Vale, Nantymoel, and Blackmill.

The operation was intelligence led utilising information received from community members, as a result of an earlier media appeal for information made by the Ogmore, and Garw Valley Neighbourhood Policing Teams.

The Ogmore and Garw Valley Neighbourhood Policing Team has carried out a Pact led Operation named CANELA to target youths responsible for anti social behaviour in the Betws, Blaengarw, and Pontycymmer areas.

Bridgend schools and colleges will now have an additional tool for tackling anti-social behaviour. Assembly Minister Janice Gregory launched the School Acceptable Behaviour Protocol, at the Bridgend Civic Chamber, on Friday 13th October. Also present at the launch were representatives from the schools who have signed the protocol, including teachers and governors.

Respect has been highlighted as an issue with young people, and mutual respect is something that is expected in Bridgend Youth Offending Team.

Communities constantly troubled by anti-social behaviour are to receive help in the form of a new CCTV camera.

South Wales Police, along with the Safer Bridgend Partnership, and licensees, today launched a campaign to tackle alcohol related anti social behaviour, and violent crime, in Porthcawl.

Pupils from Cornelly Primary School, and Ysgol Y Ferch O'r Sger, have today launched an initiative called SchoolWatch, in partnership with South Wales Police to combat incidents of vandalism in the summer holidays.

The April PACT meeting for the Cornelly Ward identified the derelict garages in Heol Llan as one of the priorities the local community wanted the police and partners to address.

On Friday 21st of April, the new Youth Works building was finally opened on Heol Ceulanydd, Caerau Park in Maesteg. Thanks to a partnership with Valleys to Coast and Lovell, Youth Works were able to purchase the youth centre and provide youth diversionary activities that have never existed on Caerau Park before.

South Wales Police operation targets Anti social behaviour during half term period in Bridgend area.

South Wales Police operation to tackle anti-social behaviour on First Cymru buses in Bettws, Bridgend.

Neighbourhood Police officers in Pencoed have launched an initiative aimed at reducing anti-social behaviour in the area.

Wednesday saw the second wave of dawn raids take place within the Borough which resulted in a good success for the ongoing ‘rat on a rat’ campaign.

Warrants were carried out at Maesteg, Wildmill, Sarn, Pyle and Bridgend.

Through recent intelligence gathered from a variety of sources within the community it had been identified that a number of local youths have been openly involved in the recreational use of controlled drugs along with the consumption of alcohol. These activities have had a significant impact on the quality of life of a number of residents in some areas of Maesteg and as a result an initiative was set up through the Maesteg Neighbourhood Police Team in order to confront this problem.

South Wales Police operation targets scrambler annoyance in the Kenfig nature reserve, Porthcawl, resulting in 9 first warnings being issued.

The Neighbourhood Policing Teams from Maesteg and Bridgend have carried out an operation to target scrambler bike annoyance. The operation named Palmair, also involved the South Wales Police Off Road Unit, along with cross-divisional support from off road officers from the Neath Port Talbot Division.

The Safer Bridgend Community Partnership yesterday carried out continued activities as part of Operation Air Strike, which is a multiple agency initiative to tackle grass and forestry fires, at known problematic locations throughout the Borough of Bridgend.

A week of positive action took place in the Bridgend division of the South Wales Police last week under the heading of ‘NOT IN MY NEIGHBOURHOOD’; a nationwide operation run by the Home Office.

The Ogmore and Garw Valley Neighbourhood Policing Team has carried out a Pact led Operation named CANELA to target youths responsible for anti social behaviour in the Betws, Blaengarw, and Pontycymmer areas.