POLICE DETAILS
Avon and Somerset Constabulary - Glastonbury Town Neighbourhood

Following a number of complaints regarding pavement parking and pedestrians being forced to use the road to pass, especially in place such as Wells road. We will monitor and issue tickets/education to any vehicles found obstructing pathways in the town.

Following a number of complaints regarding pavement parking and pedestrians being forced to use the road to pass, especially in place such as Wells road. We will monitor and issue tickets/education to any vehicles found obstructing pathways in the town.

Persistant problems with cars obstructing pavements along wells road, cars continue to receive Fixed penalty notices, enforcement continues.

Glastonbury Town Centre continues to experience periodic issues of anti?social behaviour (ASB), particularly in and around the High Street, Market Place, St Dunstan’s Car Park, and the Abbey gateway areas. With spring approaching - and increased footfall expected due to warmer weather and tourism - there is a need for early, proactive intervention to prevent escalation.

To reduce ASB?related incidents in Glastonbury Town Centre through targeted, visible, and collaborative activity between Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) officers and Haven officers, ensuring the town centre remains a safe and welcoming environment for residents, businesses, and visitors.

Key Actions

Proactive high?visibility patrols

• Increase NPT and Haven officer foot patrols in identified hotspot areas, focusing on peak times (after school hours, early evenings, and weekends).
• Early engagement with individuals known for ASB, using preventative conversations and signposting where appropriate.
• Maintain a visible presence to deter alcohol?related and youth?related ASB.

Information gathering and early warning

• Conduct weekly ASB hotspot reviews based on intel from:
  • local businesses
  • CCTV operators
  • town council partners

Partnership working and prevention

• Coordinate with Haven, YMCA, and outreach partners to conduct joint patrols focusing on:
  • street?attached individuals
  • vulnerable persons at risk of exploitation
  • support needs around substance misuse or homelessness

Early?season preparedness

• Conduct a pre?spring review (Feb - March) to ensure:
  • staffing plans are in place for busier periods
  • patrol routes cover key seasonal hotspots
  • partnership agencies are briefed and aligned on expectations

Enforcement Where Necessary and proportionate 

• Use ASB legislation proportionately, including:
  • Community Protection Warnings (CPWs) and Notices (CPNs)
  • dispersal powers if required

Glastonbury Town Centre continues to experience periodic issues of anti‑social behaviour (ASB), particularly in and around the High Street, Market Place, St Dunstan’s Car Park, and the Abbey gateway areas. With spring approaching - and increased footfall expected due to warmer weather and tourism - there is a need for early, proactive intervention to prevent escalation.

To reduce ASB‑related incidents in Glastonbury Town Centre through targeted, visible, and collaborative activity between Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) officers and Haven officers, ensuring the town centre remains a safe and welcoming environment for residents, businesses, and visitors.

Key Actions

Proactive high‑visibility patrols

• Increase NPT and Haven officer foot patrols in identified hotspot areas, focusing on peak times (after school hours, early evenings, and weekends).
• Early engagement with individuals known for ASB, using preventative conversations and signposting where appropriate.
• Maintain a visible presence to deter alcohol‑related and youth‑related ASB.

Information gathering and early warning

• Conduct weekly ASB hotspot reviews based on intel from:
  • local businesses
  • CCTV operators
  • town council partners

Partnership working and prevention

• Coordinate with Haven, YMCA, and outreach partners to conduct joint patrols focusing on:
  • street‑attached individuals
  • vulnerable persons at risk of exploitation
  • support needs around substance misuse or homelessness

Early‑season preparedness

• Conduct a pre‑spring review (Feb - March) to ensure:
  • staffing plans are in place for busier periods
  • patrol routes cover key seasonal hotspots
  • partnership agencies are briefed and aligned on expectations

Enforcement Where Necessary and proportionate 

• Use ASB legislation proportionately, including:
  • Community Protection Warnings (CPWs) and Notices (CPNs)
  • dispersal powers if required

Our beat team has been actively patrolling the High Street, Market Cross and the churchyard, responding positively to reports of anti‑social behaviour (ASB) and engaging with anyone involved.
We continue to work closely with the community, local businesses and the church to build a clearer picture of ASB across Glastonbury and ensure we’re addressing the issues that matter most.
To support this, we’ve increased the number of beat surgeries held around Glastonbury. These sessions give residents the chance to speak with us directly and learn more about how to report ASB or other crimes. Upcoming surgery dates and locations are listed below.

We have seen a significant rise in gold-related burglaries across the beat area. Offenders are specifically targeting high-value gold jewellery.

This priority aims to reduce offending, increase community reassurance, and improve vigilance through targeted patrols and proactive home-safety advice.

Current Trends & Modus Operandi

• Offenders often scope addresses in advance, looking for unoccupied homes.
• Common entry points: rear doors/windows, patio doors, and properties backing onto footpaths or unlit access routes.
• Burglaries frequently occur during early evening or when residents are at work.
• Gold jewellery is targeted due to:
  • High resale value
  • Ease of concealment and transport
  • Cultural practices of storing jewellery within the home rather than banks

Operational Objectives

1. High-Visibility Patrols

• Increase patrol presence in impacted streets and nearby access routes.
• Conduct reassurance visits to victims and vulnerable neighbours.
• Engage with communities most at risk to provide tailored guidance.

Home Safety & Crime Prevention Advice (Community Messaging)

Protecting Gold & High-Value Items

• Consider storing gold jewellery in a secure safe, ideally insurance-approved and fixed to a solid surface.
• Avoid leaving jewellery in easily accessible or predictable locations.
• Photograph valuable items and record serial numbers if available.
• Mark items using property marking kits where possible.

Securing the Home

• Ensure all doors and windows are locked, especially rear access points.
• Fit door chains, window restrictors, and ensure locks meet modern security standards.
• Install or maintain outdoor lighting, especially motion-activated options around gardens and alleyways.
• Maintain hedges and fencing to reduce hiding spots.

Surveillance & Alarms

• Consider installing:
  • CCTV (visible cameras act as a deterrent)
  • Smart doorbells
  • Audible house alarms
• Ensure CCTV covers access points such as rear gardens, side gates, and sheds.

Community Vigilance

• Encourage residents to:
  • Report suspicious behaviour or vehicles immediately
  • Join or establish a Neighbourhood Watch group
  • Keep in contact with trusted neighbours, especially when away from home

While Away from Home

• Use timers on lights to create the appearance of occupancy.
• Avoid advertising holidays on social media.
• Ask a neighbour to check the property, move bins, or park a car on the drive.

Engagement & Communications

• Deliver targeted leaflets to high-risk households.
• Provide crime prevention briefings at local community centres, mosques, temples, and cultural groups.
• Use force-approved social media channels to share gold burglary prevention posts.

Desired Outcomes

• Reduction in gold burglary offences across the beat.
• Increased intelligence from the community.
• Improved reassurance and awareness among vulnerable groups.
• Strengthened partnership working with local neighbourhood groups.

Arrests have been made in response to the Burglary’s, and investigations are continuing. we would like to remind people to keep valuables locked away or hidden and look at your current home security and areas of weakness on your property.

Glastonbury Town Centre continues to experience periodic issues of anti‑social behaviour (ASB), particularly in and around the High Street, Market Place, St Dunstan’s Car Park, and the Abbey gateway areas. With spring approaching - and increased footfall expected due to warmer weather and tourism - there is a need for early, proactive intervention to prevent escalation.

To reduce ASB‑related incidents in Glastonbury Town Centre through targeted, visible, and collaborative activity between Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) officers and Haven officers, ensuring the town centre remains a safe and welcoming environment for residents, businesses, and visitors.

 Key ActionsProactive high‑visibility patrols

• Increase NPT and Haven officer foot patrols in identified hotspot areas, focusing on peak times (after school hours, early evenings, and weekends).
• Early engagement with individuals known for ASB, using preventative conversations and signposting where appropriate.
• Maintain a visible presence to deter alcohol‑related and youth‑related ASB.

• Conduct weekly ASB hotspot reviews based on intel from:
  • local businesses
  • CCTV operators
  • town council partners

• Coordinate with Haven, YMCA, and outreach partners to conduct joint patrols focusing on:
  • street‑attached individuals
  • vulnerable persons at risk of exploitation
  • support needs around substance misuse or homelessness

• Conduct a pre‑spring review (Feb - March) to ensure:
  
  • staffing plans are in place for busier periods
  • patrol routes cover key seasonal hotspots
  • partnership agencies are briefed and aligned on expectations

• Use ASB legislation proportionately, including:
  • Community Protection Warnings (CPWs) and Notices (CPNs)
  • dispersal powers if required

Continued proactive and high-visibility patrols were conducted throughout Glastonbury High Street and surrounding areas, with a clear focus on preventing and addressing incidents of Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB). During patrols, appropriate use was made of available Anti-Social Behaviour powers where proportionate and necessary, to disrupt adverse activity and provide reassurance to the local community.

Ongoing collaboration has been maintained with key partner agencies, including Somerset County Council and local support services, to ensure a coordinated and effective multi-agency response to ASB concerns. Engagement with local businesses has also continued, strengthening relationships, gathering intelligence, and supporting early intervention measures aimed at reducing persistent issues.

These combined efforts are contributing to a sustained reduction in Anti-Social Behaviour in the area, alongside improving community confidence and supporting a safer environment for residents, visitors, and businesses alike.

Glastonbury Town Centre continues to experience periodic issues of anti‑social behaviour (ASB), particularly in and around the High Street, Market Place, St Dunstan’s Car Park, and the Abbey gateway areas. With spring approaching - and increased footfall expected due to warmer weather and tourism - there is a need for early, proactive intervention to prevent escalation.

To reduce ASB‑related incidents in Glastonbury Town Centre through targeted, visible, and collaborative activity between Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) officers and Haven officers, ensuring the town centre remains a safe and welcoming environment for residents, businesses, and visitors.

 Key ActionsProactive high‑visibility patrols

• Increase NPT and Haven officer foot patrols in identified hotspot areas, focusing on peak times (after school hours, early evenings, and weekends).
• Early engagement with individuals known for ASB, using preventative conversations and signposting where appropriate.
• Maintain a visible presence to deter alcohol‑related and youth‑related ASB.

• Conduct weekly ASB hotspot reviews based on intel from:
  • local businesses
  • CCTV operators
  • town council partners

• Coordinate with Haven, YMCA, and outreach partners to conduct joint patrols focusing on:
  • street‑attached individuals
  • vulnerable persons at risk of exploitation
  • support needs around substance misuse or homelessness

• Conduct a pre‑spring review (Feb - March) to ensure:
  
  • staffing plans are in place for busier periods
  • patrol routes cover key seasonal hotspots
  • partnership agencies are briefed and aligned on expectations

• Use ASB legislation proportionately, including:
  • Community Protection Warnings (CPWs) and Notices (CPNs)
  • dispersal powers if required

Continued proactive and high-visibility patrols were conducted throughout Glastonbury High Street and surrounding areas, with a clear focus on preventing and addressing incidents of Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB). During patrols, appropriate use was made of available Anti-Social Behaviour powers where proportionate and necessary, to disrupt adverse activity and provide reassurance to the local community.

Ongoing collaboration has been maintained with key partner agencies, including Somerset County Council and local support services, to ensure a coordinated and effective multi-agency response to ASB concerns. Engagement with local businesses has also continued, strengthening relationships, gathering intelligence, and supporting early intervention measures aimed at reducing persistent issues.

These combined efforts are contributing to a sustained reduction in Anti-Social Behaviour in the area, alongside improving community confidence and supporting a safer environment for residents, visitors, and businesses alike.