Bradley Stoke is to be one of five South Gloucestershire areas which will get a new council-funded Police Community Support Officer.

The town will benefit from £150,000 extra funding along with Filton, Kingswood, Yate and Hanham.

The officers will are specifically a response to “concerns about community safety, anti-social behaviour and other forms of crime”.

A joint statement from the Conservative councillors for Bradley Stoke, John Ashe, Brian Hopkinson, Rob Jones and Sarah Pomfret, said:

“Through the local Safer and Stronger group, residents have helped the police and local partners to specifically identify anti-social behaviour problems around Saxon Way and in the area surrounding the entrance to the Willow Brook Centre from Manor Farm Crescent.

“Residents are understandably concerned about these and other instances of anti-social behaviour in the town and so a greater police profile locally will help to reassure our residents that we are determined to act on their concerns.”