Just walking’ the dog. Image from Walsall Police.

I received notice of this great event from Walsall Police via the excellent WMNow service a few days ago, advertising a bunch of events across the borough this Friday, 17th March 2017 where you can meet your local policing team and get help and crime prevention and public safety advice.

Your local rozzers will be at Tesco in Brownhills from 10am until 2pm and everyone is welcome. I must say, it’s good to see the local police making efforts again to reach out to the public. Long overdue.

Also, if you haven’t signed up for WMNow, please do – it’s free and you can select to receive alerts on all kinds of local issues. It’s a fine thing.

Walsall Police wrote:

This Friday, the 17th March, neighbourhood policing teams across Walsall will be going all-out to #beattheburglar with a series of activities including a number of pop-up stalls where we will be promoting crime prevention and offering help and advice.

Our teams will be at ten locations across the borough during the day as detailed below. If you’re about pop along to see us and please encourage your neighbours to do likewise.

The events we’re planning are as follows:

Morrisons, Wallows Lane, Walsall 0900 -1200

Civic Centre, Walsall Town Centre 0900 -1200

Tesco, Brownhills 1000 -1400

Pelsall Library (or outside on the green if the weather is fine) 1000 -1400

Asda Darlaston 0930 -1100

Boundary Mill, Darlaston 1230 -1400

Morrison’s Willenhall 1300 – 1600

Co Op New Invention, Willenhall 1300 – 1600

Morrison’s Aldridge 1230 -1600

Blackwood Road shops Streetly 1400 – 1600

Alongside which we’ll also be running other activities to #beattheburglar including targeted high-visibility patrols around hot-spot areas.

So join in if you can this Friday and help us beat crime in your area! We’ll be publicising the events via our social media feeds where you’ll be able to keep up to date.

If you’d like more details of how you can help out please contact your local neighbourhood policing team. Contact details can be found on the West Midlands Police website at http://www.west-midlands.police.uk/.