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The Rugby Rural Central Safer Neighbourhood Team covers Earl Craven & Wolston Ward, Ryton on Dunsmore Ward and Lawford & Kings Newnham Ward.

Rugby Rural Central Safer Neighbourhood Team

Main telephone number: 01788 853851

Team email address: click here to email the team

Main team location: Rugby Police Station

Team leaders

Inspector 227 Dale Pritchard

Inspector Dale Pritchard is one of the Sector Inspectors based at Rugby and has geographical responsibility for the Rugby Rural area. Inspector Pritchard has previously worked at Nuneaton & Bedworth and the North Warwickshire District but the majority of his service has been spent on the Rugby district.


Sergeant 1843 Karl Faulkner

Sgt Faulkner joined West Midlands Police in April 1998, where he was a fast response officer based at Chace Avenue in Willenhall in Coventry for 2 years. He then progressed into the role of a community beat officer for Ernsford Grange for 2 years before moving onto the CID at Chace Avenue. He spent the next four years based within Coventry and some parts of Birmingham and also spent time on the Murder Investigation Unit. In February 2006 he was promoted within the West Midlands police to the rank of Sergeant where he was transferred to Kings Heath Police Station in Birmingham as a fast response Sergeant. In August 2006 Sgt Faulkner transferred to Warwickshire Police where he was given the role of reactive Sgt at Rugby before moving to his present role as the Rugby Rural SNT Sergeant.

Sergeant 1843 Karl Faulkner

Team members

Police Community Support Officer 6143 Eleanor Batty

Eleanor has been a PCSO with Warwickshire Police for one year and has the responsibility for the villages of Binley Woods, Brandon and Bretford within the Earl Craven Ward. Eleanor previously worked for Rugby Borough Council and West Midlands Police whilst she was studying for a history and politics degree at the University of Birmingham. Eleanor enjoys interacting with the community and assisting in improving the relationship between the community and the police.

Police Community Support Officer 6143 Eleanor  Batty

Police Community Support Officer 6177 Simon Thomas

Simon is the newest member of the team, and joined Warwickshire Police, starting his training from the second week in January 2008. Before being a PCSO, he used to be a service engineer in the fire protection industry. Gaining over 10 years experience in dealing with people and customers face to face! Simon covers the ward of Lawford and is looking forward to creating a positive impact on the Rural Central SNT.

Police Community Support Officer 6177 Simon Thomas

Special Constable 3642 Robert Forsyth

Robert joined the force in May 2006 at the tender age of 18 and has every intention of joining as a police constable at some point in the future. He has mainly worked reactive during these two and a bit years and is looking forward to working the rural area as it is a more proactive and community led style of policing instead of just reacting to incidents. During the day Robert works for a computer organisation in their national distribution centre (NDC). Robert would recommend being a Special Constable to anyone considering it, it is a fantastic way to put something positive back into the community.


Police Community Support Officer 6083 Chris Fisher

Chris has been a PCSO with Warwickshire for 2 years, he has previously covered much of the Rugby rural area but now has particular responsibility for the Lawford ward. Chris has previous education and work experience with computers and the engineering industry. Chris enjoys keeping fit and took part in the 'three peaks challenge' in 2004 where teams had 24 hours to climb the three peaks of Snowdonia, Ben Nevis and Scafell Pike - his team came third out of over a hundred who entered!

Police Community Support Officer 6083 Chris Fisher

Police Constable 475 Theresa Cottingham

Theresa has been with Warwickshire Police for nearly 10 years. She began as a reactive officer for 3 years and then became a community beat officer for the Benn ward, then Ryton and has been the local officer for Wolston for 2 years now. Before joining Warwickshire Police she was a postie in Rugby where she found she enjoyed being out in the community communicating with residents and decided to go for a change of uniform. Every opportunity out of work she carries out some form of exercise including football, rounders, the gym and can be seen all over rugby walking a large hyper active dog called 'Pluto'!


Police Constable 1617 Jamie Russell

Jamie has over four years service as an officer and covers the Dunchurch and Ryton wards.

Police Constable 1617 Jamie Russell

Police Constable 1567 Simon Bodill

Simon has been a police officer with Warwickshire Police for nearly 5 years and covers Binley Woods, Brandon and Lawford. Prior to joining Warwickshire police he worked for a mountain bike manufacturer whilst waiting to get into the Police, and previous to this served in the Royal Air Force for a period of time. He began his Police career on reactive at Rugby and completed two year probation period was then assigned to a Police Operation dealing with prolific offenders in the Overslade area of Rugby for three months. Following this he went on to join the Rural Safer Neighbourhood Team in April 2006 and has been on the team ever since.

Police Constable 1567 Simon Bodill

Police Community Support Officer 6088 Ken Wyer

Ken has been a PCSO for 2 years and has previously worked all over the Rugby Rural area. He is now responsible for Wolston. Ken is a keen footballer and has arranged community football matches between the emergency services and the local youths.

Police Community Support Officer 6088 Ken Wyer

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Rugby Rural Central SNT

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