Vale of White Horse District Council
Abbey House, Abbey Close,
Abingdon, OX14 3JE
Email: comments@whitehorsedc.gov.uk
Telephone: 01235 520202

Vale of White Horse District Council

Neighbourhood policing

Thames Valley Police is introducing neighbourhood policing to all communities across the Force, including the Vale of White Horse.

One of the main aims of this new style of policing is to make sure that the police, working with other agencies, provide the service that people want by tackling those issues that are important to local residents.

Each neighbourhood, or group of neighbourhoods, will be given its own dedicated policing team made up of police officers, police community support officers (PCSOs) or wardens whose entire focus will be on that area.

Once a neighbourhood has been defined, the next step is to ask residents what problems they would most like to be tackled. Neighbourhood Action Groups (NAGs) are then set up including representatives from the community, police, local councils and other relevant agencies to work out how these issues can be best resolved.

In the Vale of White Horse district 14 neighbourhoods have been identified, and these will be managed by seven NAGs (meaning some NAGs will cover more than one neighbourhood).

To see the latest situation with the introduction of neighbourhood policing in the Vale, and to see what is happening where you live, please see this page of the Thames Valley Police website.  

Police Community Support Officers (PCSO’s)

Police Community Support Officers are employed by Thames Valley Police.  Their work focuses on providing a uniformed presence in communities and dealing with low level crime. Within the Vale, 25 PCSOs will be employed.

For more information about the role of PCSOs, please see this page of the Thames Valley Police website.