Wem

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.

Wem

Jack Harper

Police Constable

07817885113

Liam Heathcote

Sergeant

07870510220

Mark Holtschke

Police Constable

07971051201

Matt Painter

Inspector

Elizabeth Walmsley

Police Community Support Officer

07967303567

Local Priority Issues

Priority	Action taken
Speeding: This is a priority for the next three months based on resident feedback, crime data and ongoing local concerns. Issued 30 June 2026	We will: - Deal robustly with people committing offences, making use of available equipment such as a Trucam and Speed monitoring devices. - Complete enforcement campaigns, offering advice, guidance and awareness as well as enforcement. - Ensure officers positively target areas of heightened concern. - Conduct further neighbourhood surveys to identify areas of concern. Actioned 30 June 2026
Rural Crime - based on resident feedback, crime data and ongoing local concerns Issued 30 June 2026	We will: - Carry out high intensity targeted patrols focusing on vulnerable locations and properties. - Visit local farms and offer preventative advice with specialist departments - Offer farmers and rural residents Smartwater Actioned 30 June 2026
Theft: This is a priority for the next three months based on resident feedback, crime data and ongoing local concerns. Issued 30 June 2026	We will: - Conduct high visibility foot patrols in problematic areas. - Deal robustly with people committing offenses using policing powers. - Provide crime prevention advice to victims and local neighbourhoods being targeted by offenders - conduct further neighbourhood priority surveys to identify areas of concern. Actioned 30 June 2026

Priority

Action taken

Speeding: This is a priority for the next three months based on resident feedback, crime data and ongoing local concerns.

Issued 30 June 2026

We will:
- Deal robustly with people committing offences, making use of available equipment such as a Trucam and Speed monitoring devices.
- Complete enforcement campaigns, offering advice, guidance and awareness as well as enforcement.
- Ensure officers positively target areas of heightened concern.
- Conduct further neighbourhood surveys to identify areas of concern.

Actioned 30 June 2026

Rural Crime - based on resident feedback, crime data and ongoing local concerns

Issued 30 June 2026

We will:
- Carry out high intensity targeted patrols focusing on vulnerable locations and properties.
- Visit local farms and offer preventative advice with specialist departments
- Offer farmers and rural residents Smartwater

Actioned 30 June 2026

Theft: This is a priority for the next three months based on resident feedback, crime data and ongoing local concerns.

Issued 30 June 2026

We will:
- Conduct high visibility foot patrols in problematic areas.
- Deal robustly with people committing offenses using policing powers.
- Provide crime prevention advice to victims and local neighbourhoods being targeted by offenders
- conduct further neighbourhood priority surveys to identify areas of concern.

Actioned 30 June 2026

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