Car door fiddling – Royston Close
Person woken up by ring doorbell to see 3 people fiddling with car doors of their cars and neighbours. All owners of each car should be encouraged to report, not one collective report so that the police have the number of incidents. They might be...
read moreStatement to HRA WhatsApp Group from Barbara Claridge, HRA Honorary Secretary (14/01/26)
To see the message, please click on the link below: Statement to WhatsApp Group January 2026
read moreOccupants of unknown car in PRG tennis club drive thought to be smoking weed. Police called on 101
A small dark coloured car was parked in the PRG tennis club drive from 11pm-approximately 7am on night of 12/13 January with 2 young male occupants inside chatting and smoking what was thought smelt like weed. The police were phoned on 101 and...
read moreAgenda for PACT Meeting: 6.30pm – 8pm, Thursday 8 January 2026, Highfield Church Centre
Click on the link below to see the Agenda: 3. Agenda Portswood PACT Jan 2026
read moreMasked man asking for money – in neighbour’s garden, bottom end of Brookvale Road, near Waitrose
A masked man was in a neighbour’s locked and gated back garden . He wanted money and to get through to the front. He was given some money and he left via the front on his smart bike. He was short and stocky and not frightening, but...
read moreInnversion Hair and Beauty burgled over weekend of 2/4 January 2026
Police have made arrests. NB This could be connected with the burglary where the crime scene was located at an alleyway next to Vibe Hair Salon, on Highfield Lane near its junction with Portswood Road? The latter also took place at the...
read morePolice and Communities Together Meeting (PACT) – Thursday 8 January 2026, 6.30pm-8pm
Police and Communities Together Meeting (PACT) You are warmly invited to the next Police and Communities Together Meeting (PACT) to be held at Highfield Church Centre, Bethany Lounge, on Thursday 8 January, 6.30pm-8pm. The meetings are held several...
read morePublic Space Protection Order (PSPO) in Portswood High Street – now live
The new Order was approved by SCC’s Cabinet in late November 2025 and, now that the signs have been installed along Portswood High Street, the PSPO is now live. See example of a sign below. Please report anyone you see violating the...
read moreHRA Member verbally abused at London Road bus stop recently
A member reported that he was standing at a bus stop at the bottom end of London Road one morning recently, and a man in fairly poor clothing approached him asking to ‘high five’ him. When the member demurred, the man verbally abused...
read moreFrom the Daily Echo, 8 hours ago (around 8am) – Saturday 3 January 2026 “Police and forensics at the scene on Highfield Lane after a break-in on January 3, 2026. Two people have been hospitalised after a break-in the early hours of this morning.”
The crime scene is located at an alleyway next to Vibe Hair Salon, on Highfield Lane near its junction with Portswood Road. “Hampshire police statement in full: We were called just after 6am this morning to a report of a break-in at an...
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