SENIOR CITIZENS IN GLOUCESTER INVITED TO FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND FORUM
05 October 2007
Gloucester police are hosting a first of its kind event to help senior citizens in the City next week.
The City Centre Safer Community Team has organised a Pensioners’ Forum to improve links with these residents, ensure they receive important crime prevention information and discuss with them ways in which the service they receive from police can be further enhanced.
It is being held at the Raven Centre in Hare Lane, Gloucester between 10am and 2pm on Wednesday, October 10.
Crime reduction officers will be on hand to give advice about how to secure your home and help you avoid becoming a victim in the unlikely event that you are targeted by a distraction burglar. A member of the Constabulary’s Roads Policing Unit will also be there with information applicable to the older driver.
Representatives of other agencies including the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership, Neighbourhood Watch and Age Concern will also be there along with pensions experts.
All local senior citizens are invited to the informal event where refreshments donated by Sainsbury’s, Iceland and Marks & Spencer will be available.
Explaining it’s also a good opportunity to meet your local officers, Sergeant Tim Jones who runs the Gloucester City Centre SCT said: "We’ve organised the forum as part of our commitments to ensure the voices of local people are heard when policing priorities are decided and to work with residents to further reduce crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour.
"Please do come along to this informal event to get to know us, share ideas with us and receive some useful crime prevention tips."
Sergeant Jones, PC Mark Mansfield and Police Community Support Officers Adam Stevens, Kim Carter and Steph Mason are the officers who will be present at the Pensioners’ Forum
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