18/06/2026
As a , take a look at the post from PC Girish Tiwary from last year when he give a bit of an insight into the role of neighbourhood policing teams.
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This Sunday on Behind the Badge, it’s PC Girish Tiwary from the Warwick Safer Neighbourhood Team.
Girish has worked in Patrol Investigations and on Response previously, before moving to the Warwick SNT earlier this year.
"If I’m honest, I think this has been my favourite role so far in policing.
"When I started in Response, going from doing emergency calls, back-to-back jobs, blue light runs – I used to love that, I loved the adrenaline that came with it.
"I don’t do many blue light runs anymore, but I do like when I can tag along on one.
"I moved to PIU, and I learnt a lot around investigations there.
"I got much better at interviewing suspects.
"I learnt to manage case files, going through the whole process, and it was nice to get the results at the end of the investigation.
"I liked being able to give positive results to victims and witnesses. And to officers as well, the ones who dealt with the initial incident.
"The Safer Neighbourhood Team is a different type of pressure.
"It’s great to have the variety: partnership work, out having chats with people on the streets to find out what’s going on in the area, going out and doing warrants.
"I can be a real jack of all trades – we get to do everything, which is what I enjoy.
"My family and friends love that I’m doing this job – they always ask lots of questions, obviously I can’t answer all of them but I tell them as much as I can.
"It does sometimes lead to some discussion about what police should be doing, I always try and keep my mind open.
"It’s interesting to hear their concerns, and then to think about how we, as police, can manage those concerns.
"When I first joined SNT, there was a dispute about alleged antisocial behaviour that had been running for about three years - noise complaints, that sort of thing.
"I issued a Community Protection Notice (CPN) to one of alleged offenders. Both of the people involved – who were neighbours - had been served warnings before I joined the team.
"When the guy first got served the CPN, I think he was struggling, so I agreed to contact him once a week, to have a bit of a catch up with him while I was on shift.
"I’ve taken him to the park a couple times, just so we’re on neutral territory and can talk – thinking about it, I need to give him a call tomorrow.
"Past two months, I don’t think we’ve received a call to report anything from either party at all.
"It’s nice knowing I’ve helped him to breathe a bit, find better ways of handling things so they don’t escalate, and that I’ve helped free up police resources from these issues as well.
"Being compassionate, it makes a huge difference.
"It’s the pride in knowing what you are doing is making a difference, it’s ensuring that I can leave each day knowing I’ve helped that one person, then I know I’ve done a good job."
