NEW beat managers have been appointed for two of Kidderminster's local policing teams.

PC Philip Green has taken over at Aggborough and Spennells, while the former beat manager there, PC Kevin Fincher, has become beat manager for Broadwaters.

PC Green is moving over from the Kidderminster West local policing team, although he is familiar with Aggborough and Spennells , having spent a year working alongside a previous beat manager there, PC Andy McGill.

He has more than five years' experience as an officer in Wyre Forest.

PC Fincher had been beat manager at Aggborough and Spennells since last September and has more than 20 years' service with the police, including four years as a response officer in Wyre Forest.