Sunday report from Southport Police Station

Good morning from Southport Police station, as we round off last week’s national Neighbourhood Policing Week with some of the work the Southport Neighbourhood Team did yesterday, Sunday the 29th January, and continue this week, but without as many detailed updates.

Team 2 Neighbourhood Officers were on the late shift on Sunday and took over management of a crime scene in the town centre, from Response and Resolution Officers, who had been at the scene since Saturday night. This meant some co-ordination between staff managing the scene and covering other tasking. In addition to the scene we had neighbourhood Officers on foot patrol in Southport town centre again, with attention being given to areas of reported drug dealing and anti-social behaviour.

During the shift we gave passing attention to Ocean Plaza and the seafront area and a town centre block of flats that is suffering some ASB was given a walk through. This follows an incident earlier in the week where a group of youths were removed from the building and one was arrested.

A man was arrested for domestic violence offences, criminal damage, burglary and breach of bail.
Multiple enquiries were made for low level incidents reported and we assisted with enquiries over a homeless male believed to be injured elsewhere in Merseyside.

Throughout the shift officers conducted mobile patrols in Southport Town centre, Churchtown, Birkdale, Ainsdale and High Park.

That concludes our daily breakdown of some of the work that the Southport Neighbourhood Team of Police Officers and PCSO’s have done this week. Thank you for your comments and support. Neighbourhood Policing is a partnership between police, public, partner agencies, businesses and more. Working together we can make our communities better and safer for everyone.

As stated previously, we can’t detail everything we do, for obvious operational reasons, but last weeks posts should have given you a good flavour of how a Neighbourhood Policing Team works. If nothing else it should finally put to bed the myth that “Southport Police Station is closed”. It’s not and never has been. Some of us have worked at Southport Police Station for almost 20 years and counting.

There have been changes. Custody is now elsewhere and the Enquiry Office is no longer open 24 hours a day. But that’s more to do with mobile phones and the internet and the ease of which people can make contact with services now.

Southport Police Station remains staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.