Batchley and Central
Your Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT) is a group of local police officers dedicated to serving your community. The team is made up of officers and PCSOs based in your area, supported by additional officers from the wider area.
We work closely with local authorities, community leaders and residents to decide our policing priorities for the area. This helps us to find useful, long-term solutions to local problems, while maintaining our wider focus on reducing crime across Herefordshire, Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and Worcestershire.
Please find contact details for your Safer Neighbourhood Team provided below. Please note that to report a crime or incident to West Mercia Police, you can visit westmercia.police.uk or in an emergency, please dial 999.
Batchley & Central
Richard Field
Inspector
07890510896
Olivia Jones
Police Community Support Officer
07483133587
Nina Moore
Police Community Support Officer
07980911778
Charlie Osborne
Sergeant
07866996257
Tom Poole
Police Community Support Officer
07970543663
Andrew Rhodes
Police constable
07773041388
Matthew Slemensek
Police Constable
07773042276
Marie Wright
Senior Police Community Support Officer
07866215034
Local Priority Issues
We regularly speak to local residents to establish what issues they may be experiencing in the area. The word cloud below represents the issues that residents of Batchley and Central have highlighted as priorities for the area recently (including some that say “I have no issues”).
Word clouds are graphical representations of word frequency that give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently. The larger the word in the visual below the more common the word was in the local survey.
We seek to tackle the issues raised in line with our Local Policing Community Charter.
To 'Have your say' on local issues, please click on the button below to complete a short survey.
What members in Batchley and Central are saying are the issues in the area:
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