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Monthly Newsletter for Salford East

FEBRUARY 2017

Your local Police station: Pendleton Police station Meyrick road Salford M6 5JA Opening times: Monday to Saturday: 10:00AM—06:00PM Sundays and Bank holidays: Closed Disabled access : Yes

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Ordsall & Langworthy

FEBRUARY 2017

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CLEAN UP CAMPAIGN On Wednesday the 8th Feb. PCSO David Robinson was involved in a walk about with Salix Homes. Where he completed a number of tenancy visits and had a clean-up campaign around the Howard Street area of Salford Quays.

VISIT TO AGECROFT FIRE STATION Year five students from St Boniface RC Primary School attended Agecroft Fire Station today to ask the fire service, police, am-bulance service and local authority questions on the boxing day floods in Broughton.

Broughton

FEBRUARY 2017

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ARRESTS MADE ASCENSION CHURCH FIRE Police have made an arrest following a fire at a church in Salford. At 11.20pm on Sunday 12 February 2017, police were called by the fire service after a fire broke out at the Church of Ascension on Broughton Lane, Lower Broughton. An investiga-tion was launched and officers are treating the incident as arson. A 22-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of arson and has been bailed until 30 March 2017. Detective Sergeant Karl Dalton, of GMP’s Salford Borough, said: “We have tasked a team of detectives with this investigation and made significant progress since the large fire took hold and destroyed the church. “I would like to thank the public for their support which has helped us make some positive steps forward following our appeal for information on Monday. “However, we are continuing to investigate and it is still vital that anyone with infor-mation gets in touch as soon as possible. “In particular, we need to speak with anyone who may have seen a group of youths on bikes near to the church around the time of the fire.” Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 0161 856 5461 or 101 and quote the reference number 2352 of 12/02/17, or the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.

Weaste & Seedley & Claremont

FEBRUARY 2017

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The Claremont and Weaste Neighbourhood team would like to pass on their condolences to the family and friends of Brian Downes. Brian sadly passed away after a long and courageous battle with illness and his funeral took place on 30

th January 2017 at Agecroft Crematorium. Such was his popularity, the

crematorium was completely full with people wishing to pay their respects. Brian has been a leader in our Home Watch schemes and played a large part in the suc-cess of the Smartwater Initiative. He was a reliable and friendly face at our Community Committee meetings and took it up-on himself to organise Bowling tournaments between the local Community and the Neigh-bourhood Police team. Following these good natured events he would arrange refresh-ments, this gave the local community the opportunity to talk to their neighbourhood team and discuss any concerns and issues that were affecting them. Although seriously ill Brian still managed to organise last year’s annual bowling event, which was another success. We are deeply saddened by the loss of Brian, a Neighbourhood Champion and true gen-tleman.

Photo taken at a Bowling event back in 2016.

Kersal & Irwell riverside

FEBRUARY 2017

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GMP HATE CRIME AWARENESS WEEK Police Community Support Officers, Andy Ellis, Alison Fisher and Nicola Hilton would like to thank everybody who attended at The Broughton Hub on 9th February to support GMP's Hate Crime Awareness week. The Kersal PCSO’S had to snap a quick picture!

FEBRUARY 2017

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HATE CRIME AWARENESS WEEK From 6th February –12th February GMP saw the launch of Hate Crime Awareness Week, a multi-partnership effort to raise public awareness of the different types of hate crime and how to report it if they are a victim themselves or a witness. The campaign is being launched with pub-lic transport across Greater Manchester with the aim of making people feel safer as they travel around the region and confi-dent to speak out if they see a hate inci-dent or crime take place on public transport.

FEBRUARY 2017

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REPORTS OF BOGUS WORKMEN

On the 7th February we received reports of males offering to fix a broken win-dow at an address in Little Hulton. Once inside the address the males asked for a glass of water, the offenders then tried to open drawers in the address to steal items. The males were challenged by the occupants and then left. On the same day we received a further report on folly lane, Swinton males at-tended the address offering to repair Facia boards insisting on a deposit, the victim gave £250 to the offenders stating that’s all the money they had. The offenders then stated they could take the victim to a bank but the victim re-fused. The offenders in this case are described as two white males both with Irish ac-cents. The first offender is described as well built, round face and clean shaved. He wore a brown/ beige coloured jacket and a flat cap. The second offender is described as thin build, long face, short black wavy hair and clean shaven. On Thursday 9th February a further incident occurred on Irlam O’th Height. One male offender targeted an address of an 81 year old occupant. The lone female victim was tricked into giving a £50 deposit to a male who wanted to carry out work on the address. The male took the £50 and left without com-pleting any work. The male was described as 50 years old, stocky build, dark hair, round face and spoke with an Irish accent. We ask resident to please check on their neighbours and relatives and advise them to not open the door to strangers or hand over and cash to persons pur-porting to be workmen. If you have elderly relatives or neighbours close to home ask they have a fam-ily member of friend present if any legitimate and urgent work needs to be car-ried out.

Your area officers:

FEBRUARY 2017

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Your local officers:

Insp 19708 Ian Thomson Sgt 09949 Les Warburton-Marsh

Ordsall PC 13618 Nigel Morris PC 02573 Kieron Maddocks PC 01418 Alan Hueston PCSO 65611 Adam Marsh PCSO 65342 Michael Grundy PCSO 65410 Mark Gerrard PCSO 65296 Dave Robinson

Langworthy PC 09313 Joanne Turner PC 07838 Paul Fawcett PCSO 65054 Lee Wells PCSO 60960 Samantha Knight PCSO 65460 Richard Newman PCSO 65012 Danny McNicholas

Your local officers:

Insp 01765 Duncan Haynes Sgt 15625 Michael Barton

Kersal PC 18573 Darren Wright PC 14168 Ian Jones PCSO 63115 Andy Ellis PCSO 63117 Alison Fisher

Irwell Riverside PC 19122 Chris Nutter PC 19007 Steve Williams (University) PCSO 66035 Jimmy Riley (University) PCSO 65465 Julie Smith PCSO 62005 Nicola Hilton PCSO 66109 Liam Walker

Your local officers:

Insp 02695 Stephen Collier Sgt 08474 Mark Tregilgas

Claremont PC 01961 Paul Banks PCSO 65159 Martin Kerr PCSO 66024 Dave Hartley PCSO 62959 John Elliot

Weaste & Seedley PC 14117 Steve Preston PC 11572 Jimmy Johnson PCSO 20249 Mark Stewardson PCSO 63224 Chris Shepherd PCSO 65487 Louise Baldwin PCSO 69820 Arturs Kaufmanis

Your local officers:

Insp 02907 Bev Catterall Sgt 14215 Wes Walker

Broughton PC 15484 Tony Smithers PC 13146 Alex Price PC 11293 Andrew Pilkington PCSO 61361 Damian Battersby PCSO 69748 Mohammed Asif PCSO 69817 Robert Froggatt