A NEW initiative to involve communities more in tackling crime locally, is being rolled out in the Thame area.
Neighbourhood Policing will mean a slightly different role for PC Russel Hounslow, the Thame Community Beat Office, and the formation of a local NAG, or Neighbourhood Action Group. The latter will be based around the current Thame Community Safety Group.
The initiative will begin with a public meeting at which local people will be invited to list their three top crime concerns which will then be prioritised by Inspector Stuart Dunbar and his team at Thame police station.
PC Hounslow will become known as the Neighbourhood Officer and will have a network of local people from different sectors of the community, like Business, Youth etc., who will inform him of any particular concerns the group they represent may have, and he will then take those concerns back to the NAG, which will feed back to the police for action.
The scheme has already been piloted elsewhere in the region and should be fully implemented by March 2008.
A date for the public meeting will announced soon.
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