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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Article from Daily Echo, 14/3/25: Arrest of three men from Sirdar Road, Portswood

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Mar 15, 2025 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments   https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/25010381.police-confirm-three-arrests-man-shot-southampton/ A later article reported that the men were later released on bail.
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Article in Daily Echo, Monday 10 March 2025: ‘Southampton Common: Man charged with sexual assault’

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Mar 10, 2025 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments To read article, click on the link below, courtesy of the Daily Echo: https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24995418.southampton-common-man-charged-sexual-assault/
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Anti-social behaviour/Motoring/Safety ‘bypass’ incidents in the Active Travel Zone in and around Brookvale Road – 286 incidents between 11/1/25 and 5/3/25

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Mar 9, 2025 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments This is a bypass incident log of ASB/traffic/safety incidents in and around Brookvale Road from 11/1/25 to 5/3/25. All the information is courtesy of the residents of Brookvale Road. The log pre-dates the start of the Bus-gate trial on 27/1/25 and is taken from the start of works on the modal filter in Russell Place. We understand that the log is just a representation as it has been impossible...
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‘Enforcement results in your area’ – email from Hampshire Alert and Hampshire and the IOW Constabulary

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Mar 5, 2025 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments “Good morning, Southampton North, Your local Neighbourhood Policing Teams from Portswood and Bitterne North joined forces with the Neighbourhood Enforcement Team yesterday (03/03/25), focusing on combating shoplifting offences on Portswood High Street, both in uniform and plain clothes. We conducted several stop searches over the course of the day for drug offences and shoplifting. As a...
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The next Portswood Police and Community Together (PACT) meeting in our area is on Monday 24 March, 6.30pm to 8pm at Highfield Church Centre, Highfield Lane SO17 1RL

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Mar 5, 2025 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments If you have any concerns or issues you wish to raise. PACT-Portswood-24-march  
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