Headless Cross and Oakenshaw
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.
Headless Cross & Oakenshaw
![Richard Field (West Mercia Police, Insp, SNT Redditch & Bromsgrove)](https://cdn.neighbourhoodalert.co.uk/profilePictures/dacd9a0b-8d9d-43c8-bd9d-44a106f7e308.png?_r=638576660876753000)
Richard Field
Insp
07890510896
![Holly Larner (Police , Police Community Support Officer , Redditch Abbey Town Centre)](https://cdn.neighbourhoodalert.co.uk/profilePictures/5b86f8a6-03e6-4c59-a5fa-a962ac46ca73.png?_r=638576660876753617)
Holly Larner
Police Community Support Officer
07929091577
![Surinder Maman (West Mercia, PCSO, Headless Cross and Oakenshaw)](https://cdn.neighbourhoodalert.co.uk/profilePictures/01519197-500a-49af-84a1-a829953e2a86.png?_r=638576660876753981)
Surinder Maman
PCSO
07773042756
![Charlie Osborne (Police, Sergeant, SNT Redditch)](https://cdn.neighbourhoodalert.co.uk/profilePictures/fcc39723-0b5a-4047-acf4-3cea38c1e5ef.png?_r=638576660876754281)
Charlie Osborne
Sergeant
07866996257
![James Roberts (West Mercia, Police Officer, Headless Cross)](https://cdn.neighbourhoodalert.co.uk/profilePictures/3ef30bf6-45ec-4bc3-8e84-9ca2fcb68b40.png?_r=638576660876754533)
James Roberts
Police Officer
07929800786
![Marie Wright (West Mercia , PCSO, Batchley and Central )](https://cdn.neighbourhoodalert.co.uk/profilePictures/591db7d5-68ba-44bd-9ef3-f632bf43e8fc.png?_r=638576660876754987)
Marie Wright
PCSO
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 Headless Cross and Oakenshaw 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 Headless Cross and Oakenshaw are saying are the issues in the area:
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