Current activities and recent events

Take a look below to find out about recent events, projects and initiatives supported by Bridgend Community Safety Partnership.

Cefn Cribwr Primary Get the Road Safety Green Light

Pupils from Cefn Cribwr Primary School in Pyle are set to be kings of the road following a road safety scheme delivered by the Bridgend Road Safety Partnership and South Wales Police.

School volunteer Eirwen Coombes, Road Safety Officer Gail Calford, PCSO Tom Davies, PCSO Karen Powell, PCSO Jon Howe and Stephen Howells with the Kerb Craft pupils

Knife Stamp Out has Positive Results for Porthcawl

Over 100 searches were conducted on club goers in Porthcawl town centre on Friday night as police swooped in a bid to stamp out knife carrying offences and drug related crime.

Andy Hughes, PC Louise Youlden, Jackie Jackson, PC Nick Dowell

Maesteg Neighbourhood Policing Team Shoot Down Public Disorder in Operation Archer

Two 16 year old boys were arrested on Saturday, February 28th during a police sting targeting public disorder and antisocial behaviour.

Suzette Williams pictured with Samantha Littleton, Vicky Poole and Rebecca Littleton

Police message to residents of Broadlands and Bryntirion

There have been a number of thefts from vehicles in the Broadlands and Bryntirion areas and these are occurring both in the day time and evenings.

Pcso Freeth with an insecure car

The lives of residents at Duffryn Flats in Caerau, Maesteg have improved dramatically thanks to building work organised by South Wales Police and Valleys to Coast Housing.

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.

PCSOs Rachael Bargery and Karl Smith at the new garage door

NPT Officer Rides To The Rescue

For those of you who were shopping in Bridgend Town the other Saturday and thought that the rider on one of the police horses looked familiar and very similar to one of the Bridgend Neighbourhood Policing Team Officers - you were not mistaken - that rider was our very own Morfa Town Community Officer PC Joeli Sweeney.

Pc Joeli Sweeney and Pc Kath Eynon riding Toby and Marshall

Children from Ffaldau Primary School in Pontycymmer have a simple message for the drivers in the area – please don’t park on our zig zags!

PCSO Janine Ireland of Garw Valley Neighbourhood Policing team and the student school council at Ffaldau Primary on Ivor St have teamed up to launch Operation Zig Zag, a parking initiative to stop parents and other drivers parking on the zig zag lines outside the school gates.

Zach Edwards, Anna Thomas, Ben Dobbs, Lucy Crocombe, Brandon Richards, Jennifer Scott, Megan Durston, PCSO Janine Ireland, Ben James and Ieuan Cocks outside Ffladau Primary (these pupils are the members of the student council)

Laleston Scout Field clear up

On Saturday, 7th March, 2009, Laleston Neighbourhood Policing Officers - PC Tim Low and PCSOs Rob Chapman and Donovan Smith - assisted Bridgend District Scouts in their clear up campaign at the Laleston Scout Field.


Winners Don’t Carry Weapons says Pyle NPT

South Wales Police united with KPC Youth Centre in Pyle on Monday 9th February in a bid to teach young residents that winners don’t carry weapons.

PCSOs Jon Howe and Richard Couch giving a talk at KPC

Police Crackdown Tackles Anti-Social Behaviour in Nantymoel

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

PC Gemma Tibbott, PCSO Richard Thomas and Councillor David Jones at the clock tower Nantymoel

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