Ascot Neighbourhood Action Group

for Ascot, Sunninghill and Sunningdale

Neighbourhood Policing

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Ronnie Wilkie retires

The Ascot Nag wishes to pay tribute to Ronnie Wilkie who has retired from his position as Operations Director at Ascot Racecourse and has moved away to Herefordshire. Ronnie is involved in many charities. Nationally he is a Board Director of the Born Free Foundation and Born Free USA and locally he was president of St John Ambulance Ascot and Berkshire and the Royal Ascot Cricket club. Ronnie was an active member of the Ascot Neighbourhood Action Group and the driving force in the creation of the Kotch Club for young people from the Ascot area.

Ronnie recognised that the solution to youth petty crime and vandalism was to create an activity that would be more interesting than just hanging around. He tackled the problem by engaging with the young people and the idea of the Kotch Club was formed.

Kotch is a great success and is well attended by local youth with the consequence that vandalism in Ascot High Street is now rare.

Cllr. David Hilton NAG Chairman said, “The Ascot Neighbourhood Action Group was fortunate to have Ronnie Wilkie as a member. By channelling the energies of local youths into Kotch he proved that there are very few bad young people. Ronnie is an inspirational person and his contribution to the Ascot NAG will be missed.”

The Action Group is delighted that Kotch will be supported by Alastair Warwick, who has taken over from Ronnie at Ascot Racecourse and that the club has a new president, Gary Morris who runs the club with a team of volunteers and youth workers.


Neighbourhood policing was established by the Home office in 2005. The strategy was to develop a new relationship between the police and the public based on active co-operation.
The Government committed to work with the police and other partners at national and local level so that by 2008:
  • every area would have a dedicated, visible, accessible and responsive neighbourhood policing team – led by police officers but involving special constables, community support officers, volunteers, neighbourhood wardens and others too;
  • you would know who your local police officers were and how to contact them
  • you would have a real say in local policing issues and setting local priorities

How the Ascot Neighbourhood Action Group started

In order to engage with the Community and establish their thoughts about policing priorities, the police organised an open meeting for residents of Ascot, Sunninghill and Sunningdale in January 2008. At the meeting residents were asked to identify their most significant concerns. When these were collated burglary, anti-social behaviour and speeding & parking emerged as the three local priorities.
At the first annual public review meeting these of local priorities were reconfirmed and it is these priorities that the Ascot Neighbourhood Action Group are working to resolve.
 


Members of the Ascot Neighbourhood Action Group