Melbourn Speedwatch
The Speedwatch scheme allows the public to get actively involved in monitoring the speed of vehicles travelling through their neighbourhood. It is used in areas where speeding has been identified as a priority at quarterly neighbourhood panel meetings.
The scheme is run by the police alongside the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Road Safety Partnership. It is about educating motorists in the law in relation to speeding and monitoring any trends in speeding in neighbourhoods.
Volunteers are trained to use speed indicator devices which displays vehicle speed. The registered owner of any vehicle seen exceeding the speed limit is sent an advisory letter from their local neighbourhood policing team, explaining that speeding is unacceptable to the local community.
I am trying to organise a Speedwatch group for Melbourn. If you would like to volunteer and have a minimum of two hours per month to offer plus two hours initially for training please do contact me.
Sharon Camilletti
m: 0772 584 7303
New police station at Cambourne
The opening of Cambourne police station is just weeks away. Officers say the new base, which cost £1.4 million, will “dramatically enhance” their ability to respond to 999 calls from nearby villages.
Neighbourhood officers covering the Comberton, Gamlingay and Melbourn beats will be based at the station; while there will also be reactive officers on hand to answer emergency calls, and community safety workers.
South Cambs Sector Inspector, Chris Savage, told Melbourn’s neighbourhood policing panel meeting, on 20th July, that the new police station is good news for South Cambridgeshire as it increased the number of police bases in the region to three (Histon and Sawston being the other two). He also explained that with three bases come three sergeants, so with Melbourn’s policing team now based at Cambourne our community policing sergeant will be Jon Capes with our current Sergeant, Rebecca Williams, remaining at Sawston.
Melbourn Police Station
WORK is underway on a new police office for Melbourn.
Plans were agreed by South Cambridgeshire District Council for a purpose-built police site at the Village College. It will consist of an office area, a meeting and interview room.
Sector Inspector Chris Savage said: “By being in the heart of the community we hope residents will find it easier to speak to officers about issues they have. “We will be holding regular police surgeries and drop-in sessions for residents at times when people are likely to be using the other services in the area as well. “Once the new base is operating, I will continue to work closely with the sergeant and rest of the team to ensure patrols are targeted and officers are available when residents need them.”
You can see the plans by clicking here.
Meet your PCSO
Your local PCSO Lindsay Gardiner will be at Melbourn Village College every Friday from 3pm to 5pm. She will be available to answer your questions and discuss any concerns you have about policing in your area. This will also be a chance for you to find out the policing priorities for your area and what work the team have been doing to tackle them. Alternatively if you just want to drop in for a chat and find out what’s going on and meet your local community support officer please do.
Non Emergency Calls: 0345 456 456 4
If you would like a free subscription to e-cops click here
Safer Melbourn section
The Magazine is published quartely and is delvered
free to every household in the village.
Visit the Melbourn Magazine page for more information
to read online or download the full magazine.
Melbourn’s Practicle Solutions Group
The Practical Solutions Group is the culmination of eighteen months work by its predecessor (the Problem Solving Group) which recognised that a less formal and more inclusive approach is required to achieve its aims. This new group remains multi-agency but the emphasis and approach has changed so that it can work with and include Melbourn residents (young and old) to help pinpoint problems and find practical solutions to reduce ASB in the village.
The old PSG has already started the implementation of physical changes to ASB hotspots, and this work will be continued, but the provision of enhanced youth work resources and facilities can only be achieved successfully with youth and parental involvement, and this is what the new Practical Solutions Group is all about.
Click here to visit the site.
The next panel meeting is on
Tuesday 19 October at Melbourn Village College
doors open at 19:00 for 19:30 start.
Panel meetings give us the opportunity to meet our Neighbourhood Policing Team members and to hear what they have achieved over the previous quarter.
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‘Speaker’s Corner’
This website, aims to provide the residents of Melbourn the opportunity to express their views on issues affecting them and those around them. Whether relating to the council, policing issues, or the local environment, feel free to make your point.
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