Good morning from Southport Police Station

Good morning from Southport Police Station, the home of the North Sefton Neighbourhood Policing Team.
This week, we are taking part in 'NATIONAL NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICING WEEK', a national campaign to improve awareness and celebrate the achievements of Neighbourhood policing teams in communities across the country.

This SEFTON POLICE page is shared by the SOUTH SEFTON team based at Marsh Lane Police Station and the NORTH SEFTON team, based at Southport. Both locations are fully operational police stations and are homes to Neighbourhood Policing Teams and Response and Resolution Teams, who operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, as well as other specialised teams of Police Officers.

This week you will see posts on this page from both Sefton Neighbourhood Teams, to try and demonstrate the wide variety of work we do, and how we engage with local residents and partner agencies in support of our communities.

Here at Southport the Neighbourhood team is divided into three teams of Police Constables and Police Community Support Officers (PCSO’s) working different shifts, supervised by three Sergeants, led by Inspector of Local Policing, Graham Fisher, and all based at Southport Police Station. Officers are allocated to the different political wards, with each having its own dedicated Police Officer and PCSO’s.

The area covered by the Neighbourhood Team at Southport extends from the border with Lancashire in the north, to Lunt in the south and from the coastline to the boarder with Lancs at Kew/Birkdale/Ainsdale.
Among the team at Southport we have one Wildlife and Rural Crime Officer and two Schools Officers who cover the high schools of Southport and Formby. We have officers who are taser trained, pursuit trained, public order trained, quad bike and off-road vehicle trained, surveillance trained and speed gun trained among other skill bases. We have experienced Constables who tutor student police officers and two of our PCSO’s are PCSO Tutors, who mentor and assess new PCSO’s who are undergoing their 18 week HND certificated training programme.

Over recent months the Southport based team has been responsible for responsible for the arrests of:
• Multiple offenders for possession of and/or possession with intent to supply class ‘A’ and ‘B’ and other controlled drugs

• A man who was later charged and found guilty of multiple sexual assaults against women in Southport

• A man charged with 13 offences of theft from cars, fraud by false misrepresentation and burglary
• Multiple offenders responsible for thefts from local shops

We have also resolved incidents in other ways, such as Fixed Penalty Notices, Community Resolutions, Cautions, Criminal Behaviour Orders and warnings.

Today, our schools officers have visits to schools planned including finalising plans for a Thai boxing programme for girls as part of the response to violence against women and girls, a rural crime activity is planned and all in addition to our regular patrolling duties.

Look out for us out and about today around your home or place of work and watch for more updates throughout the week.