Current activities and recent events

Wales Rugby League and Safer Bridgend’s first Street Rugby festival of the year last weekend was a great success with 60 youngsters attending.

The festival, held in Waterton, was won by Caerau Cougars who beat Sarn 4 tries to 0 in the Final with the Cup being presented by South Wales Scorpions’ prop Liam Roach.

Safer Bridgend has been supporting Rogue Trader Week by holding a Crime Prevention Coffee Morning at Litchard Mission yesterday (Monday 21st June).

The event was organised in partnership with local PCSO Donovan Smith, Frontline Support Officer, Gaynor Cassidy and Ellis Roberts from Trading Standards. It arose as a result of an incident whereby an elderly gentleman from the Litchard area was scammed out of £2,000 when he was cold-called by a rogue trader offering to clean his driveway.

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.

A tour of the police cells and a chance to get your own fingerprints taken are among the many attractions on offer at the Bridgend Police Open Day which will be held at the Police Station on Brackla Street, Bridgend on Sunday 4th July 2010 between 11.00am and 4.00pm.

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.

The Road Safety Quiz final was held on Friday 11th June at the Odeon Bridgend who kindly hosted the event again this year.

Over half term Constables Carpenter, Stewart and Warlow took a group on a day expedition. The group ranging from 11 yrs to 15yrs of age from Wildmill area picked the only rainy day of half term.

Police in Bridgend are looking back on a very successful 12 months which has seen reductions in crime levels across almost all recorded categories.

Last Sunday (May 2) Neighbourhood police officers in Bridgend responded to reports from the Safer Bridgend CCTV unit and members of the public who were concerned about a car which was being driven around the Recreation Centre in an anti social and dangerous manner.

The residents of Sunnyside in Bridgend are enjoying stress-free parking thanks to the work of Safer Bridgend.

After parking was identified as a recurring issue at the local PACT meeting, PCSO Christian Freeth and his colleagues on the Newcastle Neighbourhood Policing Team worked with Sunnyside residents to identify peak times for the problem.