Scott McPherson

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Top officer’s budget tour

Chief Constable Brian Moore has revealed Wiltshire Police’s plans for a radical shake-up of policing methods to cope with stringent budget cuts. Chief Con Moore has been touring the county giving presentations to more than 2,000 police officers and staff about how the force is set to deal with a £15 million deficit during the next four years. The Vision Wiltshire plan will see officer and staff numbers reduced, sharing of resources with other forces in the south west and reports of non-police issues turned away. Response policing will now operate from four hubs in Chippenham, Trowbridge, Salisbury and Swindon. He emphasised that officers will continue to work locally and will maximise the time spent out of their station, with shift patterns to match resources available on the streets to peak times. During the next few months all specialist policing units, including dogs, armed response and roads policing, will operate across the county from police headquarters in Devizes, while investigation, intelligence and contact management will be made more flexible in dealing with crime by a new centralised approach to allocating, responding and dealing with calls. Chief Con Moore said neighbour-hood policing teams were set to stay and the 11 inspector-led sectors remained at the core of the structure. “In designing the way we police the county as we move forward we’ve taken into account what the public say they value most in the police service,” he said. “People will still have their NPT working in their community. We’re changing how our response officers work to make us more flexible and dynamic and provide the policing service you want at the times you want. “The changes reflect the need to save up to £15m over four years, but in introducing new ways of working we continue to perform well in tackling crime against a backdrop of an overall fall in crime over the last three years of 15 per cent.” Wiltshire Police Authority chairman Christopher Hoare said: “We ran a consultation exercise throughout Wilt-shire and Swindon which showed us that 91 per cent of respondents want us to make a commitment to maintain the numbers of police officers and PCSOs within our NPTs. We have therefore ensured that the strength of NPTs remains unaffected.”

New repairs blow to Chippenham church

Generous parishioners have managed to literally raise the roof after donating more than £35,000 towards essential repairs to the St Andrew’s Church roof.

Snappers look back

Happy snappers have been gathering in a small corner of Calne for the last 35 years – charting the town’s history through their lenses.

Hundreds turn out for tragic Chippenham rugby boy Jay

More than 600 supporters gathered at the Chippenham Rugby Club on Friday night to raise money for sixth form pupil Jay Ryles-Jenkins who remains in a stable condition in hospital after a tragic rugby accident earlier this year.

Calne drugs pair are jailed

Two men found guilty of creating the biggest cannabis factory ever found in Wiltshire have been jailed for more than two years.