Speeding continues to be a priority. Your local Neighbourhood officers and are regularly conducting high-visibility speeding checks throughout the villages around Frome. The aim is to deter speeding through the residential areas and to educate repeat offenders.

The Neighbourhood Team work closely with the Community SpeedWatch groups who conduct regular speeding checks in their community.

How SpeedWatch works

A Community SpeedWatch can be set up in any village, small town, or urban area, governed by either a 20, 30 or 40 miles per hour speed limit.

A team of local residents who are willing to volunteer a small amount of time each week are trained and issued with speed detection equipment to monitor speeds.

Vehicles observed speeding will be sent a warning letter along with advice to help change their driving behaviour.

Further action will be taken by the police against persistent and high end speed offenders as well as targeting individual locations.

Join Community SpeedWatch

To find out if there is a Community SpeedWatch Scheme in your area, or request to set one up, email [email protected].

Further information on community speed watch can be viewed here –
Please follow the link below, which will take you to the CSW web page where you can find out how to join and lots more.
https://communityspeedwatch.org/FRONT-v2-Register.php
 
 
 
 
 

 The theft of agriculture plant and machinery has been a prevalent issue across the UK and local rural areas have suffered some significant loss due to this.

The Neighbourhood Policing Team would advise the following crime prevention actions:

• Consider fitting tracking devices on your agriculture and plant vehicles. You can also mark them using security or forensic markings. Check with your insurance provider as some will offer discounts once a tracker is fitted.
• Consider locking vehicles and plant in secure outbuildings or containers.
• Record vehicle and machinery serial numbers and take photographs for reference. If your plant is stolen a photo will increase publicity and possibly aid the recovery of your stolen property.
• Secure your vehicle (QUAD and ATVs) using suitable locking devices and fixed ground anchors secured to the floor using the correct gauge in security chains and padlocks.
• Protect your vehicles, trailers and plant by registering them on the Immobilise Property Register.
• Consider fitting a key safe so keys to vehicles are kept in a secure place.
• Remove all GPS from your machines when not in use and store in a secure place.
• Ensure all trailers are fitted with a good standard wheel clamp and hitch lock. Consider the use of a ground anchor also.

“Your local policing team has recently received the latest training to help identify stolen plant and machinery, and we are looking forward to putting this into practice.”