Police are en route to a swan thats in the road on a bridge in Fairford (no really! Inc 133 09/05/18). Seems like a perfect opportunity to post your favourite Hot Fuzz references then?!
Today a couple travelled six hours to spend a few days at a holiday let in Stow. Unfortunately they were greeted by PCSO Symes who told them to travel six hours back. Holiday homes are not open for business. You can travel as far as you want for exercise but must return home.
#thiscountry
. Thank you BBC for filming at Stow-on-the-Wold police station. This Country, a comic look at life for youths in the Cotswolds. We won't spoil the last episode, it is a must watch. Look out for PC Shaw (PC Sarah Crawford) in the end credits.
@charliecooper11
We are appealing for two males to be identified, who trespassed into a residents garden in South Cerney and tried to poach fish from their pond. If you can identify these males , images attached, please call 101 quoting incident 349 27/02/21
On 27th March 2020 police attended a 999 call following a baby arriving early in the car on the way to hospital. Dad helped Mum amazingly and police assisted until an ambulance arrived. Mum & baby girl are doing well. Just a moment can make you feel how wonderful life is!
Thanks to the member of the public who handed us this lost dog in Bourton today! We very much enjoyed our time with honorary PD Betty! Betty joined us on rural patrols until we could get a chip scanner and find her owners, she is now safe and home!
#Charlie9251
#Pete2431
A Bridal party's Roller broke down and unable to pick the bride and her party up to take them to
@CrippsBarn
. PS Wood and PC Weedon to the rescue. Party was picked up and taken to the venue on time. Congratulations
#ChloeandDavid
, happy to help.
#wedding
#bride
#careerhighlight
Today we had multiple reports of people building a campsite in the Cotswolds. What we actually found was one of the best dens we've ever seen! To the children who made it, well done! We hope we can get a full tour and we promise not to give away its secret location!
#Charlie9251
Our Inspector saw a schoolgirl stood at the war memorial in Minchinhampton earlier. She approached her & felt very emotional to see she was laying hand painted poppy pebbles with the names of all the individual soldiers killed in action in WWI who are named on the memorial.1/2
Another Covid ticket handed out in Lower Slaughter. The drivers excuse for the 300 mile round trip was that it was very hard to go shopping in London. #£200DayOut
#Charlie9251
#Andy2761
Parking in Bourton on the Water has always been an issue, however we do not recommend parking in the water. Driver arrested after blowing a positive roadside breath test.
#dontdrinkanddrive
Sgt Andy Wood "777" who's collar number was used in the film Hot Fuzz by
@simonpegg
has hung up his boots and is retiring. Andy has been a Sgt at Cirencester for over 15 years and will be missed by colleagues. A well earned rest now awaits you. Best wishes from the Cotswold Team
Today officers spent time in villages most likely to attract tourists from other areas across the country. We engaged with over 20 groups in their vehicles and turned most away. One couple had traveled over 150 miles from Ormskirk!
#Charlie9251
#Pete2431
We thought it was supposed to be lockdown? Apparently not in Bourton?! 2 covid tickets handed out to tourists from London and mutliple warnings given.
#Charlie9251
Great use of the App "What3Words" today. Horse rider was injured after being thrown from her horse near to Cutsdean this morning. An ambulance and air ambulance were able to find the correct location straight away.Patient taken in as a precaution and doing fine.
@GWAAC
@swasFT
This was our response to reported illegal fox hunting yesterday.
@NPASAlmondsbury
watching from the sky, Police quad following & boots on the ground. Officers will be monitoring again this morn to ensure lawful pursuits & any protests can be undertaken peacefully.
👏💪👏 to PC's Webb & Weedon who have just won a foot chase around Cirencester with 2 suspects wanted for mobile phone thefts today. Suspects are on route to custody, suspects car seized & 3 new stolen phones recovered.
#Blowing
😅
#TeaAndMedals
😎
#SaferCiren
Did you know that feeding horses with food from home is illegal? Feeding horses foods they don't normally eat can also make them unwell and result in the owners incurring huge vet fees which has happened in Stow, please don't feed them!
#John9288
With temperatures set to sore today, please do not leave any dogs in hot cars. If it's 22c outside - inside a car it can get to 47c within an hour. Dogs cannot cool themselves down and heatstroke can be fatal. If you see a dog in a car on a warm day call 999.
@RSPCA_official
Our wonderful peerless colleague, PCSO Andrea Shutt, has been diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease. Devastating news for for Andrea, her family & us. Please read about Andrea's (& Insp Karen Ellis) efforts to raise money for
@mndassoc
.
While engaging with tourists in a Bourton car park who had travelled from other Tier 4 areas and sending them away, police spotted this vehicle owned by a London resident with no tax! Vehicle seized and a long walk home!
#Charlie9251
#Pete2431
Big shout out to NHS,thank you, stay strong and we are behind you. Please consider doing a national clap at 8pm this evening in support of our emergency service colleagues.
@NHSuk
So sad that our colleague and friend PCSO Andrea Shutt passed away this week. Andrea was loved and respected by so many in the Cotswolds. Andrea was everything and so much more a good officer should be and we will miss her terribly. Our thoughts with her family and friends X
This tourist travelled from out of county for a walk around Lower Slaughter. Unfortunately they had forgotten to keep their exercise local and to tax/ MOT their car! So we've seized it!
#CaughtByTheBike
#LongWalkHome
The grim part of being a Wildlife Crime Officer for PC Weller. Discovering 2 deer hunted down by dogs then ran over in the field, just for "sport". A heinous death inflicted by sick people
Out in Bourton carrying out some 2 wheel patrol. Very busy today with lots of tourists from out of county and not alot of 'exercising' going on! Multiple warnings, tickets and people being sent home.
#Charlie9251
Three friends who had driven 21 miles to Stow on the Wold from Oxfordshire have been fined £200 each for breaking lockdown rules. Officers stated that they had no reasonable excuse to be in a car together so far from home.
#Alison1501
#Cassie9283
The Cotswold NPT are out en masse in Bourton today after thousands of tourists decended on the village yesterday. We are here to make sure social distancing is adhered to!
After reports of a jeep hare coursing on private land around Withington, multiple units were dispatched to the area and within minutes the vehicle was stopped!
PC Westmacott on Bank Holiday duty today. Big thank you!! So far no much on the roads today and those who I spoken to have had a valid reason to be here. Occupants of AirBnB that had come for two days holiday have been encouraged to pack up and go back to London. Again thank you.
A group of farmers reported 2 cars lamping around Cold Aston last night. The NPT filled the area and one of the cars was stopped. As illegal poaching is not a valid form of excerise three males received £200 covid tickets and their car was seized!
A very proactive sunday for North Cotswolds NPT Team 2! More than 50 tourists engaged with and many sent home, 2 cars seized for motoring offences and multiple tickets and fines handed out.
#Charlie9251
#Pete2431
#John9288
DS Andy Andy Wainwright: "You want to be a big cop in a small town? Bog* off up the model village!"
*Apologies to the purists. I'd get banned (again) if I didn't cleanse the language. PS745
Please take your time while driving through the village of Bourton-on-the-Water as there are lots of pedestrians and mobility scooters also using the roads in the popular tourist destination. This picture shows the result of trying to avoid such traffic!
Neighbourhood Team and Glos Police Specials have been in Bibury again today and have had to ticket 9 people for non essential travel from as far away as Leicester and London to walk in the Cotswolds. Others from neighbouring counties that were also turned away.
@GlosPolSpecials
All Gloucestershire emergency services have spent most of the past 12 hours rescuing people from their cars who have driven into floods. If roads are flooded DO NOT ATTEMPT to drive through. The flooding around Tewks and Forest are extremely deep!
PC Nick Westmacott has been out to an undisclosed location this afternoon and found 15 people from all over the country bird watching a rare bird. This is not acceptable nor condoned by the RSPB . Strong words of advice given.
#StayHomeSaveLives
@RSPBEngland
@Glos_Police
Cotswolds Neighbourhood Team 1 were out on patrol in the Chedworth area this afternoon following reports from concerned local farms. A total of 6 people were reported from both poaching and Covid offences.
👏💪👏 to
@GlosRoads
highways staff for helping us clear our Cirencester car park ready for this mornings calls. Now there's just the Forum, Brewery, Beeches, Old Bus Stn & Waterloo car parks to go.....
The girl had done this in her own time and wanted to put them in place while no one else was about. We wanted to share this with you as a heart-warming act of remembrance by someone of our younger generation who still appreciates the sacrifice made. 2/2
Cotswold Neighbourhood officers Charlie Symes, Richie Webb & Andy Baker acted on local intel this week and found a cannabis farm in a residential property in Upper Rissington containing 147 plants. One man was arrested at the scene. The plants value is thought to be over a £200k.
Non essential travelling advice being ignored. We've been to Broadway Tower today and found 17 people on "A day out" Travelling from out of county, putting each other and us at risk. We can issue fixed penalty noticed to issue of £60. Repeat fines up to £960
#StayHomeSaveLives
PD Bisto & his handler PC Collins assisted
@CotswoldsPolice
in Siddington with a Section 18 search of a house this morning. Bisto found a large quality of cash. Excellent nose work & teamwork
#KeepingTheCommunitySafe
🐾🐾
Cotswold Neighbourhood Policing Team have stopped a vehicle on the A429 filled with barrels of stolen oil whilst is was casing another property. Two males have been arrested and are being handed over to
@wiltshirepolice
Bourton on the Water is full to capacity today with all car parks full by 11am. This driver thought parking Infront of someone's drive was a good idea. A Fixed Penalty Notice has been issued!
#Charlie9251
Our thanks to
@MitsubishiUK
. Your generous loan should help our staff reach those in need during
#StormEmma
. 👍👍👍
Should anyone like to loan us some cabriolet sports cars for the summer that would be great too! 😉
#StormEmma
won’t stop the
@CotswoldsPolice
from doing its amazing work! We’re happy to loan two of our fleet vehicles to help them tackle adverse weather conditions in service.
Four males who are known to local officers as living in separate addresses travelling in the same car have been stopped in Bourton on the Water and issued with Covid 19 tickets by
#Charlie9251
and
#Pat2847
#£200FineInThePost
A vehicle involved in hare coursing 24th January, at Northleach returned last night and was stopped by Glos Police Specials. The four occupants had no evidence of hare coursing but had travelled from Wales so were all given £200 Covid tickets.
@GlosPolSpecials
@gwentpolice
Cotswold Neighbourhood Team have been on patrol today and another busy weekend so far engaging with the public who have driven from outside Gloucestershire.We have explained and encouraged those who came from Birmingham,Hampshire,Northants and London to go back home
#OpStayAtHome
3 Mac Books stolen 12 noon from a store Cricklade St, Ciren. 👍🙌 to Sgt D'Arcy's team
@StroudPolice
who located the suspects car on the A46 & have spent the last hour chasing them on foot through fields towards Painswick. Mac Books recovered & suspects arrested.
#TeaAndMedals
More vehicles have been ticketed in Bourton on the Water for obstructing footpaths and driveways. The NPT have a zero tolerance for inconsiderate drivers making pedestrians walk in the road.
This tour bus was seized by
#Jenna1608
yesterday in Bourton on the Water for having no insurance. We have been working closely with
@DVSAEnforcement
to catch unlicensed and uninsured tour bus operators.
We've arrested a man on suspicion of stalking involving fear of violence or serious alarm or distress in connection with this incident. He was arrested earlier today (Saturday) and remains in police custody.
Officers investigating an incident where a man chased a woman through woods in
#Tetbury
are urging other victims/witnesses to come forward. Other women have reported that they felt they were being watched or followed by a man. Read our latest appeal here:
Ciren NPT, The Met and A&S led a joint operation leading to the arrest of four males involved in Dangerous Drugs Network in Cirencester. A number of properties were targeted with a successful result.
#SaferCiren
B shift North Cots, were assisted by Force Crime Ops&Traffic last night on burglary patrols. 2 males in custody for burglary after a car&foot chase, assisted by NPAS&dog units. 3rd arrest made of a local resident who decided to shine a laser in the pilots eyes in the helicopter.
The Neighbourhood Team were in Bibury today. Please park considerately when visiting these villages. This one especially was not acceptable. Ticket issued.
A Vauxhall Zafira was poaching last week in the Cotswolds, ramming a game keeper's car to make their getaway. The Rural Crime Team placed a national alert on the vehicle. Yesterday Staffordshire police spotted it and seized it. One more for the crusher. 5 in 3 weeks, Boom!
You may have read last year, our wonderful colleague PCSO Andrea Shutt has Motor Neurone Disease. Andrea has raised £k's for
@mndassoc
but now her colleague is trying to raise money to help her more directly. Please read the link and help if you can. TY
We're pleased to announce our colleague Andrea Shutt was awarded PCSO of the Year at the Impact Awards on Friday! She has provided exemplary service year in, year out - Insp Karen Ellis said she is a "privilege to have on my team". Photo: Antony Thompson, Thousand Word Media
We have stopped cyclists today in the North Cotswolds today for riding in large groups. Current Covid regulations state exercise must only be done with one person from another household. Asked if they were family groups? They said they weren't. Warnings given.
#safeandsocialroads
Cotswolds Neighbourhood Team out in Cirencester Park today and PC Jupp has been patrolling outdoor spaces , happy to report that those that are out are abiding by Social Distancing guidelines.
#stayhomesavelives
#opstayathome
👏 to the public who just reported a man trying to crop locks from bikes by the church in Cirencester. Suspect found nr scene, with bolt croppers, & is now freewheeling down to Custody in our van in tandem with 2 of our finest.
#OnYourBike
We want to thank certain young people in Stow for making our job easier at Christmas.
~11pm on the 25th youngsters decided to smoke their cannabis within 10 yards of our front door in Stow, thereby making it much easier for PCs Pendle & Bellew to find & seize.
#OnlyInTheCotswolds
NPT assisted by our student officers currently being tutored, have executed a drugs warrant in Evenlode Road, Moreton-in-Marsh today where a 24 year old male has been arrested. Enquiries are continuing with more possible arrests to follow.
#teamwork
#safercotswolds
@GlosPolDogs
The great efforts of PD Napier & PC Wong resulted in the arrest of a 34-year-old man from Hampshire.
He remains in custody at this time on suspicion of dangerous driving, driving whilst disqualified and driving with no insurance.
Fantastic track on the A436 last night by PD Napier & PC Janson Wong. Disqualified driver crashed and ran from the car. PD Napier tracked and located the male hiding behind a wall. Lots of extra treats for Napier
#YouCanRunButYouCantHide
🐾🐾
A number of abandoned lambs have been saved by
#Alison1501
and
#Andy2761
in Windrush. They do look happy! It's a good job these officers passed their sheep holding course!
#Baaaaaaaa
Lockdown 2.0 - We have been out engaging with the public and encouraging that travel for exercise should be as locally as possible. Day trippers from London, Shrewsbury, Sussex, Oxford and Swindon encouraged to consider exercising more locally!! No tickets issued
#staysafe
This morning we will be supporting remembrance parades across the Cotswolds area.
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them."
Award winning officer Nick Westmacott retires today and will be missed! He joined as a Special in 2007 and in 2009 he became a PC. He then joined the Cotswolds Neighbourhood team 9 years ago. He said "I joined the police aged 40 and it has been the best job I've ever had."
After an 12 month investigation by the Neighbourhood Policing Team we executed a warrant on the Rissington Road in Bourton on Wednesday with help from firearms and crime ops. 60 cannabis plants seized, 2 males arrested and vital intelligence gained.
Cotswold Neighbourhood Team out on patrol today. Thank you, everyone social distancing and hardly any traffic about. Team 1 will now have a few days off while Team 2 take over. Had to take a picture of this friendly bear while on our travels.
#StayHomeSaveLives
#CotswoldsTogether
Make that 4.
#CreditWhereItsDue
, Sgt Andy Wood caught the forth suspect in the car they were using for their day out in the Cotswolds. Suspects now being booked in at Swindon Station as that is where we believe the phones to have been stolen.
#FullHouse
Question asked today "Can my friend travel from London to stay with me this weekend?" No. Please stay at home. We are seeing a larger volume of traffic today. We will be out in numbers over the weekend and expect to be ticketed and told to go home if you come here on a day trip.
PC Webb was unimpressed with this piece of parking in Apsley Road, Cirencester and ticketed this Mini for causing an obstruction.
#PavementsAreForPeople
Hundreds of miles patrolled today in the Cots. Lots of you out enjoying the nice weather and observing Covid rules, we enjoyed seeing you all....and ruining your photos of popular tourist spots by parking our van in front of them
#Charlie9251
#Richie2285
#Neil2007
#Rob6125
#Jo187
NPT have been supported by Special Constables and Road Policing team today. Seven vehicles seized at the last count for a number of offences including No Tax -No Insurance -Hare Coursing -Used in Crime . A good result and uninsured, un road worthy vehicles taken off the road.
Cotswold Neighbourhood Team out on late patrols. Thank you to all locals who are staying home and social distancing. Reports of youths out in Moreton this evening in the Cemetery and Victoria Park. Both covered on foot patrol. Youths advised to go home.
#stayhomesavelives