Current activities and recent events

The roads through the Ogmore Valley should be safer this summer after a successful policing operation which was run by the Ogmore Valley Neighbourhood Policing Team.

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).

As a result of recent reports of youth and scrambler annoyance in and around the Ton Kenfig area Neighbourhood PCSOs Richard Matthews and Richard Couch teamed up with Graham Holmes of the Nature Reserve and conducted a high-visibility Land Rover patrol in the area on Saturday (17 April).

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

Central Division School Liaison Officers work towards obtaining a Mountain Walking Group Leader qualification.

7 School Liaison officers from central division are working towards obtaining a mountain walking group leader qualification in order to take groups of disengaged youth from the division, out of their comfort zones and into the wild!

On Monday 29th March 2010, School Liaison Officers PC Steve Carpenter and PC John Stewart took a group of 8 young people from the Wildmill area of Bridgend to Adventures in Porthcawl. These young people were selected by Youth Works leaders in Wildmill to attend the event as an incentive to behave well and in that way earn a place on the trip.

Police Community Support Officers based at Aberkenfig and Bridgend were out and about during Rogue Trader week (March 22 – 29) supported by Safer Bridgend advising elderly and vulnerable residents on how to reduce the opportunity to becoming a victim of crime at the hands of a rogue trader.

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.

Porthcawl East NPT PCSO Carl Westgate is a Bobby who is well and truly on the Beat!

Carl has launched an initiative which has given the term ‘Bobby on the Beat’ a brand new meaning. For Carl is a part time DJ and he has set up his own specialist equipment in a local youth club in Griffin Park, Porthcawl on a Thursday night where he teaches local youngsters how to mix music.

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