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Welcome to your Oldham Central Neighbourhood pages.
I am Inspector Kat Murray, and I have ownership of the neighbourhood policing for Alt, Holts, Hathershaw, Alexandra, Glodwick, St Mary’s, Oldham town centre, Westwood and Coldhurst.
I joined Greater Manchester Police over 20years ago, starting as a PCSO in Oldham. After 2years I joined as a Police officer, also based at Oldham. I have remained here ever since. I class Oldham as my second home.
I am extremely passionate about making Oldham a safe place to live, work and visit as is my team.
We are aware of the issues each community is facing and are working hard with our partners to resolve these issues. It is just as important to us as it is to you. However, we can’t do this alone. We have launched a service called Bee in the loop, which allows you to contact your local officer directly about the issues that are impacting you the most.
You can sign up at www.beeintheloop.co.uk
If you would prefer to speak to officer’s face to face, there is a list of upcoming meetings attached to the meeting and events tab.
You can contact me directly by emailing [email protected]
I can be contacted directly by email [email protected]
I can be contacted directly by email [email protected]
I can be contacted by email at [email protected]
I can be contacted directly by email [email protected]
I can be contacted directly by email [email protected]
I can be contacted directly by email [email protected]
The town centre Neighbourhood team are committed to robust policing of Oldham Town centre, in particular dealing with offences of shoplifting in all our retail premises, and preventing the theft from person offences such as pickpockets. We are also dedicated to keeping people safe during the night time economy.
Issued 29 April 2026
Numerous arrests & prosecutions. Over the past 12 months the Town Centre team have arrested over 250 suspects for a variety of offences. The team have one of the highest number of criminal behaviour orderrs in the Force. There are currently 38 live criminal behaviour orders in place with several more in the process of being applied for. The Town Centre is trialing a new retail crime team to tackle retail crime and anti-social behaviour on the Town Centre.
Actioned 29 April 2026