Farnsfield
Newark and Sherwood is Nottinghamshire’s largest district incorporating Sherwood Forest, the historic town of Newark, Minster town of Southwell and former mining communities. The River Trent and the primary road links of the A1 and A46 Fosse Road run through the district.
The Newark and Sherwood Neighbourhood teams are led by Inspector Charlotte Ellam, with three teams of PCs and PCSOs under her command. These three teams are split into two teams working form Newark and a team at Ollerton, each supervised by a Sgt.
We work closely with local authorities, community leaders and residents to decide our policing priorities for the area This helps us to find useful, long-term solutions to local problems, while maintaining our wider focus on reducing crime across the district.
Please find contact details for your Neighbourhood Team provided below. Please note that to report a crime or incident to Nottinghamshire you can visit nottinghamshire.police.uk or in an emergency, please dial 999.
Did you know you can help influence local policing in your community in a number of ways. Nottinghamshire is a pilot area for Immediate Justice where; the scheme provides an opportunity for those who commit low level antisocial behaviour to compensate the community by undertaking supervised reparation activities which help to improve the environment e.g., litter picking, graffiti removal. You can report what areas you would like to see such activities here:-
Immediate Justice (immediatejusticenotts.co.uk)
We run Op Visibility every Friday and Saturday afternoon and evening across all our districts in Nottinghamshire patrolling Hotspots for anti social behaviour as identified by members of the public. You can complete our Op Visibility survey on the link below which if you tell you have witnessed a form or ASB in the past month will generate a request for you to identify where this was on a map so we can consider adding it to our patrol plans.
Please select one of the below options to start the survey. (nottsalerts.co.uk)
Ollerton & Sherwood Neighbourhood Policing Team

Dawn Adams
PC

Deborah Bakin
Police Constable

Chris Ball
PC

Nicola Best
PC

James Brown
Sgt

Clive Collings
Ch Insp

Ian Cotton
PCSO

Richard Dunn
PCSO

Charlotte Ellam
Inspector

Christian Hurley
SGT

David Keightley
PCSO

Juliet Marshall
Partnerships Manager

Maisie Seels
Police Constable

Pcso Seward
PCSO

Tracy Stokes
PCSO
Local Priority Issues
We regularly speak to local residents to establish what issues they may be experiencing in the area. The word cloud below represents the issues that residents of Farnsfield have highlighted as priorities for the area recently (including some that say “I have no issues”).
Word clouds are graphical representations of word frequency that give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently. The larger the word in the visual below the more common the word was in the local survey.
We seek to tackle the issues raised in line with our Local Policing Community Charter.
To 'Have your say' on local issues, please click on the button below to complete a short survey.
What members in Farnsfield are saying are the issues in the area:
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Upcoming Events
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