Words by Sgt Gary Grove – Erdington High Street police team
For those of you who haven’t met me yet, I’m Sgt Gary Grove, your new High Street policing team Sergeant. It’s my pleasure to introduce myself and share how we’re working hard to keep our community safe.
With the Op Fearless team relocating to Southside, we’re focused on building on their success and making sure Erdington remains a safe place to live, work, and visit.
Their work led to more than 140 arrests, acting directly on concerns from residents and businesses. Fearless will return to Erdington from time to time to work with us, but now it’s our job to keep up momentum.
Since taking over at the start of April, we’ve had a strong start, making more than 17 arrests for various offences, executing warrants, and seizing illegal items. Our vehicle stops have led to the discovery of cash and drugs, while stop and searches have helped us remove dangerous weapons and knives from the streets.
This month, we’ll be out engaging with local businesses alongside partner agencies, ensuring the Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) is enforced by tackling street drinking and anti-social behaviour.
We know these issues matter to the community, so we’ll be taking strong action to stop them.
You’ll see us on patrol, listening to the community and acting on intelligence. We’re here to help and if you see us out and about, please do say hello.
I look forward to keeping you updated on our progress, successes, and future initiatives.
Stay safe, Sgt Gary Grove
For more on the local police and crime in Erdington visit www.westmidlands.police.uk/area/your-area/west-midlands/birmingham/erdington
You can also follow the Erdington police team on Twitter www.x.com/ErdingtonWMP
Wonderful, thank you. I think you will do a great job. I am so shocked at the litter in Erdington. I know that is not your job. Can people be fined for littering, it might be a idea.
Thanks for reading and commenting Janet – and we’ll look into the fines for litter. The current bin strikes are having an impact, with rubbish coming from over flowing/uncollected bins and blowing up the High Street, but there might be more too this. If we find anything out we’ll publish it on the website.
Hi,
My Farther was a sergeant working at Erdington police station years ago. I was born in 1959 and he worked there then. We lived on Marsh Hill opposite the old Hare and Hounds pub in the Police houses back then. He retired in 1973 and we moved to Australia. Dad passed away a few years ago now. A lot of ex Birmingham Police whom moved to Adelaide South Australia would meet regularly, probably about ten of them. Anyway, all the best everyone.
Thanks for your comments David and the short walk down memeory lane, lovely to hear. If you have any photos of the old Erdington Police Station we’d love to see them too.