Just a reminder – the next quarterly Portswood Police and Community Together (PACT) meeting in our area is at the Highfield Church Centre, next Monday 24 March, 6.30-8pm, if you have any concerns or issues you wish to raise

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Mar 20, 2025 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments Some members of the HRA Crime information sharing WhatsApp Group will be attending! In Hampshire Alert 17/3/25, the Portswood Neighbourhood Policing Team say: “These meetings serve as a vital platform for residents like you to engage directly with the police and representatives from Southampton City Council. It is an excellent opportunity to voice your concerns, suggestions, and questions...
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Two youths with faces covered doing something shifty on top of a bin – Nile Road

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Mar 20, 2025 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments They shuffled off when person went up to them and said ‘Afternoon Lads’. Reporting to Police encouraged.
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A blue BMW car was badly damaged by 6 youths – parked in Abbotts Way

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Mar 20, 2025 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments Car vandalised, windscreen smashed. Police were called and witnesses spoke to a police call handler. Took place at 8.50pm on Wednesday 19 March 2025.
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Noticed more street people/vagrancy around in Portswood – particularly outside the Victory Gospel Church and the old Iceland shop areas

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Mar 19, 2025 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments Reported to a PC in Portswood circa 20/3/2025. Mentioned vagrancy in old Iceland shop area and also in Victory Gospel Church (plus spill over onto charity shop) and other anti-social things the person reporting had seen in Portswood.
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Street drinkers – in doorway of the old Iceland store, Portswood Broadway, in violation of the Public Spaces Protection Order in Portswood

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Mar 19, 2025 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments Spotted on 19/3/25. Same group sitting and openly drinking. Will report to the police.
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Noticeable increase in street sleepers and drinkers in Portswood Broadway

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Mar 18, 2025 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments Email sent on Sunday 16 March 2025 at 6.25pm Hello Community Safety, PC Adam O’Neil and PCSO Hayley Morrison, I hope you are all well? I am writing with regard to a noticeable increase in street sleepers and drinkers in Portswood Broadway. Yesterday, Saturday 15 March, there were four different ‘groups’ located in different areas of Portswood High Street, all along the same...
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The Phoenix – and the remaining film programme for March/April 2025

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Mar 17, 2025 in News | 0 comments Did you know there is a local cinema near you, offering the best of world cinema? The Venue is Southampton University Students’ Union Cinema, with 225 comfy fully-ranked seats, cinema standard digital projection with surround sound. Associate and Full Membership available. The film programme for the rest of March and for April 2025 is below: 19 March, 7.30pm: the powerful Oscar-winning...
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Very atmospheric photos of Southampton Old Cemetery in the early morning last week – circa 7.50am (14/3/25). Photos taken by our HonSec Barbara Claridge

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Mar 17, 2025 in News | 0 comments
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