by Greg Burns
A number of new police officers and a new police community support officer (PCSO) are set to join the Beaconsfield neighbourhood policing team.
The news will ease the growing discontent over police numbers in the town which had been raised by the town council and residents.
Beaconsfield Neighbourhood Action Group (NAG) chairman Andre De Marsac said: “We are delighted to be getting a new PCSO. I sent the Chief Constable a letter after our last NAG meeting because I felt there were issues that needed to be discussed in regards to the support my team was getting in certain areas from the police."
“I would like to compliment the police for their efforts in coming out to support us but there is always room for improvement.”
The Beaconsfield police team already operates with three PCSOs Vijay Desai, Deborah Bahan, and Geoff Dargavel - more than any other neighbourhood police team in South Bucks - and will have a sergeant and three PCs in their ranks once the new recruits arrive.
Acting sergeant Ian Barnett said: “As far as I am aware the new PCSO will be taken on in a full time permanent basis and they will be tutored by PCSO Dargavel. “Myself and my team at Beaconsfield have had a recent meeting about where we are going and what we are doing in the town and last Tuesday we were out and about in the town with high visibility in yellow jackets to let people see that there is a police presence in the town and this is something we will continue to do.
“We want to continue to enforce the good work that continues to be done by the NAG.”
For more information about neighbourhood policing and the role of the NAG in the community visit www.thamesvalley.police.uk. To contact them call 0845 8 505505.
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