West Midlands

New Powers Serve up Success
West Midlands
Tuesday 20 July 2010
Coventry Trading Standards officers have wasted no time in using new powers to issue Fixed Penalty Notices for selling alcohol to underage buyers. Within two weeks of being accredited by Chris Sims, Chief Constable for West Midlands Police, Trading Standards in Coventry conducted a test purchasing exercise that resulted in the issuing of two Fixed Penalties Notices.The new powers offer greater flexibility in enforcing the law in relation to underage sales of alcohol, and offer a short, sharp and efficient means of dealing with sales assistants who sell alcohol to persons who are underage.
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Trading Standards Midlands Join Smooth Radio Against Rogue Traders
West Midlands
Monday 19 July 2010
Trading Standards in the Midlands has joined together with Smooth Radio West Midlands to raise awareness around doorstep crime as part of Rogue Trader Awareness Month 2010.
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Streetly has Got Talent
West Midlands
Thursday 15 July 2010
Sam Sanders holds onto the winning trophy of the Streetly's Got Talent competition which was held on Saturday 19th June 2010 at the Streetly Community Centre. The competition was watched by an audience of over 200 people who cheered on the 20 acts from the Walsall, Sutton, Birmingham, Lichfield and Tamworth areas. The acts were chosen from over 100 performers entering the auditions and performing in front of judges from the Neighbourhood Watch, the police and Youth Services.
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NHW Champion from Coventry Dies in Tragic Accdent
West Midlands
Tuesday 29 June 2010
AN 82-year-old man who died after being hit by a police car on a 999 call was a Neighbourhood Watch champion.
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Staffordshire Police Launch Junior Watch Scheme
West Midlands
Monday 28 June 2010
A Junior Watch scheme has been launched in Staffordshire. Junior Watch aims to encourage membership from more diverse and hard to reach members of the community, including young people.
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Queenie Smith sets a fine example for awards
West Midlands
Friday 25 June 2010
Queenie Smith has made a real difference to the lives of people in her neighbourhood.
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Im Lost Scam
West Midlands
Wednesday 23 June 2010
A warning from Don Palmer, Neighbourhood Watch Liason for Tamworth Police was sent out to local residents earlier today.
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Stall at Peace Festival for South Leamington Neighbourhood Watch
West Midlands
Saturday 19 June 2010
South Leamington Neighbourhood Watch will be holding a stall at the local Peace Festival at the Pump Room Gardens In Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, on 19th and 20th June 2010.
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Nuneaton and Bedworth - SmartWater available
West Midlands
Wednesday 16 June 2010
Nuneaton & Bedworth Neighbourhood Watch Association is celebrating Neighbourhood Watch Week in two ways.
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News from Neighbourhood Watch, Walsall, West Midlands
West Midlands
Tuesday 15 June 2010
Tony Marshall, secretary for Walsall Borough Neighbourhood Watch, says volunteers in the Watch will be out and about during Neighbourhood Watch Week showing that Neighbourhood Watch is alive in the borough and working hard to encourage new members to become active and make their communities safer places to live.
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Neighbourhood Watch Week - West Midlands events
West Midlands
Friday 11 June 2010
There are several events going on in the West Midlands during Neighbourhood Watch Week, including events organised by Alcester, Stratford and Mid Warwickshire Neighbourhood Watch Associations.
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News from Plover Close Neighbourhood Watch Group (Wolverhampton)
West Midlands
Friday 11 June 2010
We would like to congratulate the Plover Close Neighbourhood Watch Group (Featherstone, Wolverhampton) on its achievements since it was formed just over a year ago on 19th May 2009.
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Dudley Junior Neighbourhood Watch members congratulated
West Midlands
Tuesday 30 March 2010
FOUR Dudley primary schools have joined forces to celebrate the achievements of pupils taking part in a Junior Neighbourhood Watch project.
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Listening Campaign Aims To Improve Policing
West Midlands
Thursday 4 February 2010
A region-wide Listening Campaign by the West Midlands Police Authority to encourage everyone to let their views be heard on the future approach to policing is gathering momentum. Derek Webley, Chair of West Midlands Police Authority, is keen to listen to the public’s views to help shape policing in the best way possible.
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West Midlands - Successful Neighbourhood Watch (SHAAB) Fund Recipients
West Midlands
Sunday 20 December 2009
Details have now been released of the successful Neighbourhood Watch groups who shared £500,000 from the Securing Homes Action Against Burglary (SHAAB) fund.
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Police Film says Crime - Not in my Neighbourhood!
West Midlands
Friday 27 November 2009
West Midlands Police has launched a short film showing what neighbourhood policing teams across the force are doing to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour.
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Stolen Horse Found Thanks To Family’s Dedication and High Tech Police Computer System
West Midlands
Thursday 22 October 2009
A family has been reunited with its stolen horse thanks to a high-tech information system run by the police and the determination of his owners.
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Watch CCTV from home - and earn £1,000 by spotting shoplifters
West Midlands
Monday 12 October 2009
Members of the public could earn cash by monitoring commercial CCTV cameras in their own home, in a scheme planned to begin next month in Stratford-on-Avon
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Community Crime Fighters Autumn Roadshow - Birmingham
West Midlands
Sunday 16 August 2009
Crime is tackled most effectively when local people work together with the police and other criminal justice agencies- this is what Louise Casey, the Government Crime and Justice Advisor found when she looked at how crime could be better tackled in this country last year.
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Report asks young people: what crime and community safety concerns worry you?
West Midlands
Monday 3 August 2009
The National Youth Agency conducted research with 150 young people across the West Midlands region - including many from hard-to-reach groups - about their own crime and community safety concerns.
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Area Forum Fund - Warwickshire
West Midlands
Sunday 19 July 2009
Financial assistance is available to community organisations carrying out activities that benefit the local community in North Warwickshire.
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Walsall Junior NHW goes from strength to strength.
West Midlands
Wednesday 1 July 2009
Junior Neighbourhood Watch in Walsall has really gone down well for the second full year
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Police Launch Neighbourhood Watch Week To Combat Crime In Birmingham
West Midlands
Tuesday 16 June 2009
POLICE are urging members of the local community to lend their eyes and ears as Neighbourhood Watch Week begins today.
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Neighbourhood Watch in Stafford get new plummage
West Midlands
Thursday 30 April 2009
Neighbourhood Watch schemes in Staffordshire Police are getting a new web-based communication system that could get members all of a twitter.
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Volunteer Neighbourhood Watch Volunteers Coordinators Recruited from the Nepalese Community
West Midlands
Tuesday 17 March 2009
At a meeting with the Nepalese community on 5 March, organised by PCSO Minisha Pandaya of the Nuneaton Central Safer Neighbourhoods Team, three volunteer NW Coordinators were recruited.
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Working together to tackle crime in Sandwell
West Midlands
Tuesday 20 January 2009
An estate plagued by anti-social behaviour now transformed by the community working with the police and other agencies was today visited by neighbourhood crime and justice adviser Louise Casey.
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Cutting police red tape in Staffordshire
West Midlands
Wednesday 3 December 2008
Home Office officials this week witnessed first-hand how Staffordshire’s policing teams are planning to reduce police bureaucracy. After a meeting with Staffordshire Chief Constable
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