Shrewsbury Rural South and West
Your Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT) is a group of local police officers dedicated to serving your community. The team is made up of officers and PCSOs based in your area, supported by additional officers from the wider area.
We work closely with local authorities, community leaders and residents to decide our policing priorities for the area. This helps us to find useful, long-term solutions to local problems, while maintaining our wider focus on reducing crime across Herefordshire, Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and Worcestershire.
Please find contact details for your Safer Neighbourhood Team provided below. Please note that to report a crime or incident to West Mercia Police, you can visit westmercia.police.uk or in an emergency, please dial 999.
Shrewsbury Rural East

Lyn Birch
PCSO
07890545343

Stephen Dunn-Brown
Senior Police Community Support Officer
07814053796

Simon Lewis
Constable
07852155122

Stuart Roberts
PCSO
07967303856

Ben Tanfield
Local Policing Inspector
07890 547455

Neil Ward
Police Sergeant
07890527786
Local Priority Issues
We regularly speak to local residents to establish what issues they may be experiencing in the area. The word cloud below represents the issues that residents of Shrewsbury Rural South and West have highlighted as priorities for the area recently (including some that say “I have no issues”).
Word clouds are graphical representations of word frequency that give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently. The larger the word in the visual below the more common the word was in the local survey.
We seek to tackle the issues raised in line with our Local Policing Community Charter.
To 'Have your say' on local issues, please click on the button below to complete a short survey.
What members in Shrewsbury Rural South and West are saying are the issues in the area:
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