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Hello all and welcome to our St Helier community safe message We continue to work closely with colleagues at the Graffiti team, Housing department and anti social behavior teams on issues that have been bought to our attention recently and currently are working on several Anti Social Behavior applications that have in part been possible as a result of information from members of the public. Our role is not just one of enforcement it is about building community relations and making ourselves accessible and approachable to our ward users. On Friday 13th February the team went to Morden Primary School in Green Lane. We took two vehicles from the metropolitan police vintage transport fleet, a Rover 827 and a traffic land rover the latter being fitted with air horns and a bell. It gave the children an opportunity to look at the vehicles and play with the lights and the sirens which they enjoyed very much although I'm not sure the neighbors did. PCSO Barry TURNER also took road safety equipment along and demonstrated good practice when using zebra crossings and pedestrian controlled traffic lights. Giving them the opportunity to practice crossing the road, whilst in the safety of their classroom. If you have any events coming up and would like us to come along then drop us an email or call us. We have listened to residents concerns that they have seen vehicles traveling too quickly and drivers have been on their mobile phones, especially in the Green Lane and Middleton Road areas. In response to this we have issued numerous tickets during the past two weeks to drivers using mobile phones, this is an endorsable offence which means 3 penalty points and an £80 fine. We will listen to your concerns and will do our utmost to act upon them. We conducted an Automatic Number Plate Recognition operation on 4th February with our colleagues from traffic division and officers from other Safer Neighborhood wards. During this a van with cameras reads the number plates of vehicles and any information of interest to us is relayed back immediately. We stopped vehicles for no insurance and subsequently found drivers with no licenses. The penalty for no insurance is 6 points on a license and a £200 fine. The move to our new offices in Green Lane is almost upon us and is anticipated for this Friday the 20th February. Our up and coming street briefings where you can meet us on the reassurance bus are:- 26th February 1400-1700 hours outside St Helier train station. 14th March 1300-1700 hours Farm road junction with Combermere road. 15th April 1500-1800 hours Morden park. We are organizing a public meeting for 27th May 1930-2100 hours the venue still is to be arranged. We will be having a residents meeting for the Haig home estate on 5th March 1400-1600 hours Lawrence Weaver hall Green lane. It would be good to see as many people as possible. Thank you for reading from Richard ANDERSON PS36VW and the St Helier team