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Monthly Newsletter for Barrow, Pendleton and Wiswell, May 2026

Last month we held out first Police drop-in at the Village Hall where we had a few visitors bringing concerns and wanting to put faces to names.  These drop ins will be held every six weeks, the next being 17th June and we would encourage anybody just to call in, anytime between 6.30 and 7.30pm.

We received a total of 57 logs, compared with 38 from the previous month.  Only 5 of these were actual crimes.

Wiswell residents have obviously been behaving as there were absolutely no reports either from them or about them!

Pendleton had one report of suspicious circumstances which turned out to be a group of youths that had built a den and lit a fire.

By contrast, Barrow had a busy month!   The 5 crimes included domestic issues and one vehicle interference. 

Anti-social behaviour accounted for 14 logs; 5 of these were reports of youths banging and/or kicking doors on the Barrow Brook estate.  It seemed to happen over a couple of days and has thankfully stopped, but there are some elderly residents in the area who really don’t need this kind of behaviour!

The other 9 logs were all road related.  One report of anti-social driving, swerving and taking unnecessary risks, the driver was dealt with by way of a section 59 warning, which means if seen driving like this again, we can confiscate his car.  There was one report of drink driving but when stopped, the driver tested positive for drugs; and the other 7 logs all related to the anti-social behaviour of drivers on the KFC/Subway car park.  We are actively targeting this area of a nighttime and hope to see favourable results.

Suspicious circumstance reports accounted for 4 logs.  These included another possible vehicle interference, a suspected drug deal, a damaged vehicle left in an alleyway and a concern for some youths playing around on a bridge.

During the month, we were out and about around Aspen/Chestnut Cres areas where the vehicle interference had been happening.  You have hopefully seen the update that the offender was arrested within 24 hrs.  He currently has a community behaviour order which restricts where he is allowed to go. This was extended from Whalley to now include Barrow.

Our next drop in at Booths, Clitheroe is this evening at 5pm in the café, and at Barrow Village Hall on 17th June.

PCSO 7530 Ailsa Gill