Thursday Good morning from Southport Police Station.

Good morning from Southport Police Station.

One of the aspects that appeals to people about police work is the variety. Although we make plans in advance, each day we never know exactly what we are going to walk into at the start of a shift. Over last summer, PCSO’S from the Southport Neighbourhood Team assisted Constables and PCSO’s from across the whole Force area, in managing the multiple crime scenes in Huyton and other areas. More recently, Officers who came in to work on Christmas Day and Boxing Day in Southport found themselves having to assist colleagues on The Wirral, at multiple crime scenes there. It’s an aspect of the job that demands flexibility and a ‘One Team’ work ethic.

This week to date, we haven’t had to cover any crime scenes.

Yesterday morning we took our police ‘carrier’ vehicle (often referred to as a ‘riot van’) to Farnborough Road Primary School, where the children have been learning about ‘People Who Help Us’. One of our PCSO’s went through some of the ways that the police help people in the school hall while other officers showed the children the vehicle in small groups and then let them see inside and answered any questions the children had.

The children always love seeing the police vehicles and are unusually keen at sitting inside the cages that prisoners are transported in.Hopefully it’s an experience they won’t want to repeat in later life.

Foot patrols are a daily aspect of Neighbourhood Policing. Officers are allocated to the different political wards in the town and have their own beats assigned, which is what they try to focus on. But if we need to go elsewhere in Southport and Formby, then that’s what we do. Pictured is one of our Police Officers ‘on the beat’ in Churchtown and Neighbourhood Police Officers patrolling the town centre in our yellow carrier vehicle.

Neighbourhood Officers staffed two Police drop-in surgeries yesterday. One was at The Life Rooms in Scarisbrick Avenue and the other was the regular weekly Police Surgery at Ainsdale Community Police Station on the platform of Ainsdale Railway Station. These are times that we make Neighbourhood Officers available to local residents, with varying levels of return. Sometimes these surgeries can be quite busy, other times we can see no one at all. We advertise them on this page, so keep your eye out for one in your local area.

An offensive weapon was seized from a local school by one of our Schools Officers yesterday. The student involved will now be investigated for possession of an offensive weapon.
Today we have some other operations planned and some arrest attempts to make.