A Home Watch Conference will take place for the whole of the Bury MBC area. This is on: Thursday 23 October 2014 Elizabethan Suite, Bury Town Hall (Doors open 6.30, Conference start 7.15pm) The meeting is an opportunity to meet up with local neighbourhood police teams, and guest speakers will include Police Cadets, Counter Terrorism […]

The 2014 Crime and Policing Act requires the Police and Crime Commissioner to have a Community Remedy document or strategy in place. This needs to identify a list of actions that victims of certain types of crime and anti-social behaviour will be invited to choose from where a ‘community resolution’ is considered appropriate. This will […]

With the weather threatening a ‘cold snap’, the local Police have re-issued their advice on de-icing you car in the morning: Don’t get caught out doing the following: – Don’t leave your car running to defrost, whilst you watch a bit of daybreak with a brew and a bowl of porridge. – Don’t have a […]

There has been a large spate of lead thefts from the canopy above front doors, with 17 separate crimes all being reported in the last three weeks. So far these have all been around the Bury Old Road / Heys Road area. The local police has spoken to a local builder and asked his advice […]

As the nights are ‘drawing in’ our local police have circulated this Home Security Check List. The checklist suggests we: Use this checklist as a guide to reviewing a domestic property. Start from the outside boundary of the property and work your way indoors. Ensure that when you have completed this checklist, that your recommendations […]

  The local police have published crime statistics for the Prestwich area for August 2013, compared to August 2012. Generally figures that crime is falling, so this increase in figures is worrying. I’ve already been in touch with the Police to see if there are any specific issues, or things we should be worried about […]

    The local police have circulated these statistics for Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour for July 2013 – and a comparison to July 2012. Although the bigger stats show that there has been a drop in crime in the last year, this month does show some worrying increases.

The local police have announced that they are merging Neighbourhood policing teams together. Our understanding that this will mean that financial savings can be made whilst retaining strong local police presence ‘on the beat’. Bury currently has three neighbourhood policing Inspectors (currently we’re covered by one who covers Prestwich and Whitefield. In the future there […]

The local Police have issued crime statistics that compare December 2012 with a year before, December 2011. While most types of crime have reduced or remain steady, there is a worrying increase in car crime in the Prestwich area as this graph shows. (The blue bars are December 2012 – vehicle crime the fourth figure […]

The Police have issued this advice sheet to help local people avoid being a target for crime over the Christmas period.  As the festive season rapidly approaches, the opportunist thief will be preparing to take advantage of the fact that we are all too busy getting ready for the celebrations and perhaps not being as […]