Filton Beat Team

Overall, the levels of recorded crimes in the last 12 months have been steady. The average reported crimes are usually around 100 120 crimes a month.

There was a decrease in crimes in December with 77 reported crimes. But since the new year, this has increased with 91 reported crimes in January, 132 crimes reported in February and 136 reported in March.

The rise in February and March is mainly linked to violence against the person offences. These are predominantly domestic incidents and incidents reported in supported living accommodation.

The spike in offences can also be put down to increase in recorded theft offences, 25 Offences in February and 21 in March. These offences were mainly shop theft offences.

Vehicle crime offences fluctuated throughout the last 12 months. But since Christmas offences slowly increased with 12 offences in March.

This was also the same for burglary offences. There were normally 4 5 offences a month, but this peaked in February with 15 offences recorded. This was mainly down to the series of garage/shed breaks in and around Braemar avenue. Since then, the number have offences have decreased.

In response to the increases in vehicle crime and burglary offences, patrols were increased. The team conducted extensive house to house, and Letter drops in an around the affected areas. Also available CCTV was recovered and reviewed unfortunately no suspects were identified.

The team were able to recover a stolen motorbike and return it to its owner within 12 hours of it being stolen.

Anti social behaviour issues have been spread across the area. We tend to find that there are sporadic issues in Elm Park, Millennium green, Shield retail, Abbeywood retail park and around Filton college. The last two locations have probably accounted for the majority or our calls regarding Anti social behaviour.

Regarding Abbeywood retail park most of the issues regard youths in and around the McDonalds. The team attempt to patrol the area as much as possible and respond to incidents when they can. Work has been taken to try and identify youths via CCTV. Recent issues have involved youths on E bikes and wearing balaclavas. It is difficult to stop these bikes which ride off from officers and problematic identify individuals with face covered.

Meet Your Councillors 2022 2023

Darryl Collins darryl.collins@filtontowncouncil.gov.uk

Keith Briffett

Keith.briffett@filtontowncouncil.gov.uk

Alex Doyle alex.doyle@filtontowncouncil.gov.uk

Anne Kenyon anne.kenyon@filtontowncouncil.gov.uk

Filton Town Council

How The Council Works At Filton

The Town Council has 13 Town Councillors seats elected for a term of four years The Council elections being held May 4th 2023.

The Councillors are split into three wards: Charborough (Three Councillors), Northville (Five Councillors) and Conygre (Five Councillors). There are also two elected Councillors to South Gloucestershire Council who represent Filton’s interests at this level.

The Civic Year runs from May to April with the election of the Chair/Mayor and the Deputy taking place at the Annual Statutory Meeting in May. These roles are filled by councillors who have been nominated and voted for by their councillor colleagues. The Town Councillors are unpaid, and do not receive any attendance allowance or payments for their duties, in which they run to undertake on a purely voluntary basis.

brian.mead@fitontowncouncil.gov.uk

Adam Monk

Brian Mead adam.monk@filtontowncouncil.gov.uk

Andy Robinson andy.robinson@filtontowncouncil.gov.uk

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Gareth Pretlove Neighbourhood Constable

Anti social behaviour issues at Filton college increased with the new intake in September, this continued for several months causing an affect on the wider area. The team have been liaising with the college over some of the issues and ways to address them. Patrols were increased in the area and in the grounds of the college. Issues have decreased and there are plans to increase engagement. There are plans to work with the college in September, when the new intake starts. It will be a case of trying to be present, but also educate pupils to prevent issues arising.

PCSO’s have continued engagement with local schools and carried out excellent work with Charborough road school. A mini police course was conducted with the school. This allowed pupils to learn form the PCSO’s about the role of a police officer, visits to police sites and educational interactivity activities.

We have re introduced beat surgeries under the new name of talk to us events. We have carried out one month since the start of the year. We are currently using the library to carry out these events but are open to taking the event to other locations and reach as many residents as we can.

We have continued to carry out visits to vulnerable members of the community, to offer support and help. Some of these have been conducted in conjunction with housing providers, who we have a regular monthly meeting with.

This work has been carried whilst providing support and assistance to the response teams during periods of high demand. Over the next few months, we will continue to conduct the Beat surgery events. We will carry out further engagement with the schools, possibly carrying out another Mini police course. We will also develop our work with the college to reduce the Anti social behaviour calls. And carry out work with local retail premises to reduce shop theft offences.

Dan Boardman dan.boardman@filtontowncouncil.gov.uk tom.mewies@filtontowncouncil.gov.uk

Tom Mewies

Alan Bird alan.bird@filtontowncouncil.gov.uk

Esther Adjeivi Esther.adjeivi@filtontowncouncil.gov.uk

Dan Harris dan.harris@filtontowncouncil.gov.uk

Meeting Attendance Register April 2022 March 2023

Cllr Keith Briffett 4 3

Cllr Mubashar Chaudhry 3 3

Cllr Darryl Collins 9 9

Cllr Alexander Doyle 7 9

Cllr Anne Kenyon 7 8

Cllr Brian Mead 5 5

Cllr Adam Monk 4 3

Cllr Dan Boardman 9 8

Cllr Tom Mewies 9 8

Cllr Andy Robinson 8 7

Cllr Chris Wood 6 4

Cllr Alan Bird 9 9

Cllr Daniel Harris 2 3

Cllr Esther Adjevi 3 2

Get Involved

FACE Current young people’s groups:

Mondays 7 9pm: “The Hangout” youth club for 13 25 year olds with social or learning disabilities

Tuesdays 5.30 6.30pm: “Rise” youth club for Years 3 & 4 (7 9yr olds)

Tuesdays 7 8.30pm: “Shine” youth club for Years 5 & 6 (9 11 yr olds)

Wednesdays 7 9pm: “Outbreak” youth club for Year 7+ (11 19 yr olds)

Third Friday of each month 6 8pm: “Social Club” for 8 13 year olds with social or learning disabilities (Fortnightly Duke of Edinburgh’s award group meets now in Patchway Monday evenings)

FACE Current community well being / adults’ sessions:

Mondays 12.30 1.30pm: Tai Chi Qi Gong

Tuesdays 10am 12pm: Coffee morning

First Wednesday of each month 2.30 3.30pm: Goldies Sing & Smile

Thursdays 10am 12pm: Silver Surfers

Thursdays 1.30 2.30pm: Low impact fitness

Thursdays 7 9pm: “Illuminators” social group for adults with learning/social disabilities

Fridays 10am 12pm: Coffee morning

Filton Town Council Structure

Full Council – The Town Council meets approximately 11 times a year and has three main committees and ad hoc sub committees that meet as required (e.g Elm Park Working Group). These committees make decisions under their remitted powers or make recommendations for ratification by full Council. Subject matters are brought before Council by means of the Agenda, which is issued a minimum of three clear days before a meeting and is posted on this website.

Full Council (Finance & general purposes) (inc. planning) – The Full Council (Finance & General Purpose) meetings meet approx. 11 times a year and makes decisions and recommendations to Full Council on all financial and policy matters under the discretion of the Town Council.

Due to the passing of HRH Queen Elizabeth II and HRH Prince Philip we cancelled the meetings accordingly this impacted on the total amount of meetings held this year.