Shrewsbury Rural South and West
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.
Shrewsbury Rural East
Lyn Birch
Police Community Support Officer
07890545343
Stephen Dunn-Brown
Senior Police Community Support Officer
07814053796
Simon Lewis
Constable
07852155122
Stuart Roberts
PCSO
07967303856
Ben Tanfield
Inspector
07890 547455
Neil Ward
Sergeant
07890527786
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 Shrewsbury Rural South and West 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 Shrewsbury Rural South and West are saying are the issues in the area:
Latest Alerts
WEEKLY FRAUD UPDATE FROM WEST MERCIA POLICE - ECONOMIC CRIME UNIT - 01/07/2025"
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Mature drivers invited to attend virtual reality awareness session
Alongside Telford & Wrekin Council, Shropshire Fire & Rescue Service and West Mercia Police ...
Theft of trailers.
Theft of trailers. We are currently experiencing a sharp rise in the theft of trailers from across S...
WEEKLY FRAUD UPDATE FROM WEST MERCIA POLICE - ECONOMIC CRIME UNIT - 24/06/2025"
CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS No sooner than the NHS announces that patients with obesity problems will b...
Have your say on road safety
Too many people are being killed or seriously injured on our roads. Focused on changing this sad f...
Local Speed Survey
Dear Resident PCSOs Roberts and Edwards were out in the Cressage area between 10:30 and 11:00 c...
Local Speed Survey
Dear Resident PCSOs Roberts and Edwards was out in the Crosshouses area between 10:00 and 10:30...
Witness interviews to begin as part of investigation into maternity services at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
In June 2020 we launched a police investigation to explore whether there is evidence to support a cr...
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