Members of the Maesteg Neighbourhood Policing Team have carried out an operation which targeted anti social motorists who take their vehicles off road on the hills and forest tracks around Pontycymmer and Caerau.

The Caerau Neighbourhood Policing Team would like to invite you to the grand opening of the newly renovated Blaencaerau Ball Park.Tuesday 30th March 2010 between 12:00 – 16:00

On Tuesday 16th February officers from Caerau NPT and Sector Inspector Steve Evans attended an Open day at Blaencaerau School. The event was to show possible developments for the school as it is no longer in use, but Caerau NPT used this opportunity to help the children in Caerau Stay Safe on their bikes.

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.

Caerau NPT recruited an army of helpers on June 18th when Blaencaerau Junior School pupils got suited and booted in high visibility gear to help officers raise awareness of the dangers of speeding.

Year 6 pupils from Blaencaerau Primary School became mini Crime Scene Investigators on Wednesday 3rd June when they visited South Wales Police Headquarters as a reward for good behaviour.

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.

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.

Due to concerns raised in last weeks Caerau ward PACT meeting about excessive and dangerous speeding of vehicles, a Speeding Operation was undertaken by the Caerau Neighbourhood Policing Team at ‘Heol Ty Wyth’, Nantyffyllon.

‘F’ divisions’ very own PC Steve Bowen has recently been nominated for the Jane’s Police Review Community Police Officer of the year award. Established as a national event in 1992, its aims are to promote a positive side of police work. Officers are nominated for the award by their forces and judged on their personal skills, local initiatives to combat crime and provide excellent working relationships with their communities.

The pupils of Nantyfyllon Primary School have teamed up with the Caerau Neighbourhood Policing Team, with the school receiving new hockey equipment.

Caerau Neighbourhood Beat Officers PC Steve Bowen, PC Mark Hunter, and PC Ceri Jones who are regular visitors to the school and a friendly face to the pupils arranged for the school to have new hockey equipment, including hockey sticks, and training tops.

Redeveloping the Brewer’s Site in Caerau is the highest priority of the Caerau Regeneration Project which is a Communities First initiative that helps local people realise physical and environmental schemes important to them.

Ospreys outside half Matthew Jones teamed up with the Caerau Neighbourhood Policing Team to visit the rugby team at BlaencaerauJuniorSchool, in Caerau, for a presentation of the school’s new rugby kit. The new kit was arranged by Caerau Neighbourhood Beat Officer PC Steve Bowen, with the help of sponsorship from community partner BAVO (Bridgend Association of Voluntary Organisations), Al’s Pizza (Commercial Street, Maesteg), and the shirts were supplied by Gwyn Richards Sports (Talbot Street, Maesteg).

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.

Caerau Communities First celebrated the opening of their new community offices at Caerau Police Station, in Dyffryn Road on Monday, 24 July by hosting a family fun day.

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.