WILTSHIRE POLICE AMESBURY RURAL NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICING TEAM NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH BULLETIN FEBRUARY 2012 YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICING TEAM. PC Mark Steele, PCSO Will Todd, and PCSO Shona Maycock We cover the following villages: Allington, Berwick St James, Boscombe, Cholderton, Deptford, The Gomeldons, Great Wishford, Idmiston, Hurdcott, Netton, Newton Toney, Orcheston, Porton, Salterton, Shrewton, Stapleford, Tilshead, The Langfords, The Woodford Valley, Winterbourne Dauntsey, Winterbourne Earls, Winterbourne Gunner, Winterbourne Stoke, Wylye E-mail:
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] HOW ABOUT THIS FOR GOOD NEWS! The British Crime Survey results were published last week for the period between October 2010 and the end of September 2011. It is official, with the lowest levels of reported violent crime of all the counties in the country, Wiltshire is (imagine very loud and impressive fanfare) ‘The safest County in the Country’. That’s it, job done; I’m off to put my feet up with a large mug of coffee and a slice of homemade carrot cake. Aren’t we all marvellous? The world is a fine place to be and we are in one of the best bits. Doesn’t it make you want to gambol naked through a meadow singing ‘We are the champions? No? Just me then. What does it actually mean? How can we interpret this news? Is it a blip in the figures? Well here’s my take on it. Wiltshire has always been there or there abouts when it comes to being the safest place to live in the country.