Gorse Hill and Rainbow Hill

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.

Gorse Hill & Rainbow Hill

Tom Evans (Police, PCSO, Gorse Hill and Rainbow Hill Safer Neighbourhood Team)

Tom Evans

PCSO

+447890525228

Victoria  Hodson (Police, Sgt, Worcester City)

Victoria Hodson

Sgt

07816344515

Alex Nuthall (Police, PCSO, Gorse Hill and Rainbow Hill)

Alex Nuthall

PCSO

07980928598

Catrina Palmer (Police, Safer Neighbourhood Officer, Gorse Hill and Rainbow Hill)

Catrina Palmer

Safer Neighbourhood Officer

07980944775

Iain Sweatman (Police, Senior Police Community Support Officer, South Worcestershire)

Iain Sweatman

Senior Police Community Support Officer

Stephen Thomas (Police, PC, Gorse Hill and Rainbow Hill)

Stephen Thomas

PC

07773043153

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 Gorse Hill and Rainbow Hill 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 Gorse Hill and Rainbow Hill are saying are the issues in the area:

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