PC Arndell recently engaged pupils at Aberdare Community School to empower them with the knowledge and awareness of organised crime and help them recognise potential threats in their communities. Such programs foster a sense of responsibility and encourage students to speak up if they notice suspicious activities. Community involvement is crucial in tackling organised crime…
Safer Streets Summer Initiative sees increase in high-visibility patrols across key areas of south Wales The commencement of the new Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee (NPG) will see an uplift in activity to tackle Anti-social behaviour in South Wales Police’s (SWP) communities. From June 30, 2025, as part of the Safer Streets Summer Initiative, operational activity will…
Community safety officer PC Arndell and Cynon neighbourhood policing team’s PCSO Myring have been meeting people in Aberaman this afternoon… at Blaengwawr Primary School’s fete. We took some time to speak to the youngsters about safety, how to report crime and what the police get up to. We also had the chance to chat to…
Mark Moon, who has 65 previous convictions, was jailed for three years at Cardiff Crown Court on Wednesday, June 18.His 47 year-old victim suffered years of abuse at the hands of the 46 year-old from Cemetery Road, Porth.On February 15, just weeks after his victim’s father passed away, Moon told her how he ‘couldn’t cope…
A 15-year-old boy who cannot be named for legal reasons has been charged with communicating false information in the form of a bomb hoax, sending by public communication network a menacing message, and persistently making use of public communication network to cause annoyance/inconvenience. He is currently released on conditional bail and will next appear at…
A married couple have been jailed for multiple counts of supplying class A drugs, following a South Wales Police investigation. Curtis Price, aged 29, from Aberdare and Sarah Price, aged 25, also from Aberdare, pleaded guilty to supplying, cocaine, crack cocaine and heroin and being in possession of criminal property when they first appeared at…
We were called just after 11.20pm on Tuesday June 3 with a report of a burglary ongoing in a unit on Hirwaun Industrial Estate. When officers arrived at the scene there were multiple people at the location and when they went inside, they found what appeared to be a cannabis cultivation operation. 11 men have…
South Wales Police is telling stories of domestic abuse and violence against women and girls through the eyes of their officers, as the force launches its latest campaign – ‘We See’. The launch of the ‘We See’ campaign follows on from the ‘See Me’ campaign, which launched in August last year. ‘We See’ aims to…
Blocking the entire pavement around Aberaman was a talking point in the last 2 Pact meetings also parking on or near narrow road junctions. At the previous meeting, the police said they would look into it and get the RCTC traffic Van to make a point of patrolling, and the local councillor advised that she…
A former member of police staff has been convicted of passing on confidential information to her drug dealer boyfriend. Lucy Langmead, aged 44, from Pontypridd, was working for South Wales Police when she began a relationship in 2020 with Daniel Cozens, 37. An investigation by the force’s Anti-Corruption Unit found that between May 2021 and…
