Southampton North neighbourhood policing teams carry out dedicated operation to tackle drug supply and knife crime

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Aug 12, 2024 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments Courtesy of Hampshire Alert / Hampshire and IOW Constabulary: Email 12/08/24   Last week Southampton North’s neighbourhood policing teams carried out a targeted operation as part of our ongoing efforts to tackle drug supply and its associated criminality, including knife crime. We focused a lot of our activity around the Lawn Road area as from what you have told us we know that this...
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From Southampton City Council: A message to our community partners following racially motivated disorder this week (9/8/24) and how to report a hate crime

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Aug 9, 2024 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments Friday 9 August 2024 As you’ll have seen from the news, the protest that took place yesterday in Southampton was largely peaceful. We thank our emergency services for their co-ordinated response in keeping our streets safe. The last week has seen Southampton City Council, local organisations and community groups working together even more closely to ensure that residents were supported...
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Burglary – Muse Café, Portswood

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Aug 7, 2024 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments It was reported that the front door was smashed with a brick and an empty till was stolen at around 4 am on Wednesday 7 August 2024. The police are investigating the incident as a burglary. A spokeman reported in the Daily Echo of 7/8/24 said “The incident at Muse is related to a burglary overnight, not any ongoing disorder.”
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Councillor Lorna Fielker, Leader of Southampton City Council has issued the following statement in advance of potential demonstrations in the city this week

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Aug 6, 2024 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments This has been taken from a Southampton City Council Facebook post today: 06/08/2024 “Southampton has a long history of welcoming people from around the world and for being a city of Sanctuary. We reconfirmed that status last week. “While I support the right to peaceful protest, I am disappointed that there is an anti-immigration demonstration scheduled to happen in Southampton and we will work...
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From Hampshire Alert/Hampshire and IOW Constabulary: Man arrested following indecent exposure incident in Southampton Common

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Aug 3, 2024 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments 3 August 2024 “Police have arrested a man following a report of indecent exposure in Southampton Common. We received a call reporting that, at about 12pm on Thursday 29 July, a man exposed his genitals to two 15-year-old girls in The Common. Officers arrested a man today, a 48-year-old from Southampton, on suspicion of indecent exposure. He remains in custody. We know there have been...
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HRA Crime information sharing WhatsApp Group – background and crime incidents

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Jul 25, 2024 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments The Group was set up in July 2020 to report and share crime and anti-social behavour information across the HRA boundary area.  It includes road and area representratives and Ward Councillors. Representatives share crime and anti-social behaviour incidents from their own road/area and report back to their own communities incidents that are shared in the Group from elsewhere in the HRA boundary....
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Reminder to use Faraday boxes/pouches, or the equivalent, to prevent car key fobs from being accessed remotely

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Jul 23, 2024 in Crime Incidents, Crime Prevention Advice, News | 0 comments With recent car break-ins and thefts, this is just a reminder to store car key fobs in Faraday boxes/pouches, or the equivalent, and position the boxes/pouches well away from the door. We understand that these break the signal so that thieves cannot access car key fobs remotely to unlock car doors.
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Two cars stolen from the same property – Uplands Way

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Jul 23, 2024 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments Took place night of Monday 22 July 2024. Reported to the police.
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