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Andover
Police Station, South
Street, Andover
, SP10
2ED
Enquiry
office open: Daily 8am - 10pm
Stockbridge
Police Station, High Street, Stockbridge, SO20 6HE
The
enquiry office has no set opening times, however when officers are on
duty in the station the office will be open to the public. When the
office is closed please use the phone situated next to the front door.
The
contact telephone number for both Andover & Stockbridge is 0845 045 45 45
The
Safer Neighbourhood Policing team at Stockbridge can also be contacted
via the following email address: andoverrural.snt@hampshire.pnn.police.uk
The
Mobile Police Station visits Pound Road, Over Wallop on the 1st Friday
every month from 1400hrs
&
Nether Wallop on the 3rd Monday of every month from 10am
For non-emergency calls
ring 101 of course for
an incident requiring the immediate attention of a Police Officer dial
999.
The
Nether and Over Wallop Neighbourhood Watch is built around a network of
Local Wardens each covering the road or group of houses where they
themselves live. Also each Parish has it’s own Area Co-Ordinator.
The Over and Nether Wallop Neighbourhood Watch schemes are part of the
Broughton and District Neighbourhood Watch Association which includes
Broughton, Chattis Hill, Oakley Corner/Jacks Bush, Houghton as well as
the Wallops.
Local
Wardens and Area Co-Ordinators are volunteers, unpaid, and provide an
informal link between local Police and residents. They are NOT
vigilantes nor are they curtain twitchers watching to see what may be
going on. They just put into practice the "keeping an eye out
for neighbours" spirit which many of us probably do in any case
without thinking about it. There are no formal duties but what is
asked of all members of the Neighbourhood Watch is that, in the course
of their daily routines, if they see something that appears odd or not
as one would expect, they do not ignore it but immediately pass their
concerns to the Area Co-Ordinator or to the local Police.
Typically this could be a strange vehicle parked in an unusual place or
people from an unmarked van going to the house of an elderly person
living alone. Neighbourhood Watch endeavours to keep residents
mindful of the simple measures which can aid security of person and
property, especially those who are particularly vulnerable.
New residents are visited, given literature and details of the Watch and
encouraged to make their own contribution to our mutual security.
From time to time, Police may notify Area Co-Ordinators of items which
they consider are of special concern such as a suspect vehicle or an
emerging pattern of crime. The Area Co-Ordinator will then pass
this information through a cascade telephone network to their Key
Persons who may further pass it on to their neighbours. Thus in a
short time many people are alerted.
Because
of the rural nature of our area, should you contact the Police or any of
the other Services, any directions you can give to pin-point the
location of the incident will be of great help to the Officers
responding to the call. Reference to a pub or other significant
landmarks are typical examples.
For your own home, make sure the house number/name is clearly visible
from the road and particularly at night. This is especially
important where the property is concealed from the road or house numbers
do not follow a normal sequence. Emergency services responding to
999 calls are often strangers to the area and precious minutes can be
wasted trying to find a particular property in the middle of the night.
Neighbourhood
Watch literature and other information is available from the Area Co-Ordinators,
either Edward Souter for Nether Wallop or Ruth Cartwright for Over
Wallop. As a resident of the Wallops, if you see anything that
does not fit the normal pattern of things and gives rise to concern,
please do not ignore it but tell the Police or the Area Co-Ordinator.
It may be a small thing in itself but much successful Police activity
results from piecing together fragments of information and intelligence
into a larger picture.
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