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Kent Police
Emergency and non-emergency telephone numbers
Greatstone is divided into two local police areas: New Romney Coast Ward is the area to the north of Dunes Road, including Dunes Road. This area is the responsibility of PC Will Glennie Lydd Ward is the area south of Dunes Road and is the responsibility of PC Lee Jordan Community Safety Newsletters Read the latest Community Safety newsletters for Greatstone: New online crime maps for England and Wales have been launched, allowing users to see which offences have been reported in their local streets. You can search for information on crime and anti-social behaviour by entering a street name or postcode. What is Neighbourhood Watch? The object of Neighbourhood Watch is to unite the community and drive away crime and anti-social from a neighbourhood. In today’s society each of us has a vital role to play by actively becoming involved in crime prevention. Informal Neighbourhood Watch schemes have been operational for years; where neighbours look after each others homes while they are away on holiday or in hospital etc. The concept of Neighbourhood Watch is to develop this idea to operate on a wider scale and in co-operation with the local police. The idea is to protect each other by letting the police know of anything you see or hear that you consider to be suspicious. Residents possess the local knowledge of their Neighbourhood that the police find hard to achieve. For example, a police officer would not recognise someone in your garden as a stranger, but your neighbour would. It is this kind of awareness and willingness to help each other that is the basis of Neighbourhood Watch. All that is asked of any resident is that whilst going about their normal day to day activities, such as going to and from work, exercising the dog, taking the children to or from school, shopping etc., that they keep their eyes and ears open for anything suspicious. While Neighbourhood Watch belongs to the community and runs itself it works in conjunction with the police and the local authority. Areas where schemes operate have shown a marked reduction in street crimes such as burglary, theft of and from vehicles, damage and anti-social behaviour. The presence of Neighbourhood Watch window stickers and street signs deter potential wrongdoers who are aware there is more chance of their actions being observed and reported. We have 5 Neighbourhood Watch coordinators in Greatstone at present. However the police are always on the look out for more. For a chat about setting up a scheme in Greatstone area please contact Paul Brosnan Paul Brosnan If you see someone or a vessel, waterborne craft etc in difficulty in or on the sea then please call 999 and ask for the 'Coastguard'. If you become aware or a life-threatening situation which requires urgent medical attention, then please call 999 and ask for the 'Ambulance Service'. If the injury is not life-threatening, the nearest Accident & Emergency department is at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, open 24 hours a day. It is about a 30 minutes drive from Greatstone. see map
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07870 252955 and PCSO John Gorham 