Agenda item

An update from your Safer Neighbourhoods Policing Team on ward issues and your chance to ask questions and raise concerns.

1.                  Safer Neighbourhoods Policing Team

An update from your Safer Neighbourhoods Team on ward issues and your chance to ask questions and raise concerns.

Sgt Sarah Bestington gave an update on crime and community safety in the ward.

3.1 Residents were informed that reports of crime continue to drop in the ward

3.2 With ongoing operations and work by the team and other agencies crime should continue to fall

3.3 Sgt. Bestington and PC Antonelli are now trained in using radar guns to combat speeding in the ward. People were encouraged to report incidents of speeding so they can be logged and processed using 95 Alive forms, which are then passed to Traffic Management to act on with appropriate action.

3.4 Residents were encouraged to report Anti Social Behaviour so figures reflect what is happening.

Residents asked the following questions:

a)     The reduction of crime is encouraging, is it the same for York as a whole? As for ward by ward the answer wasn’t clear but crime in York is dropping year on year, and it remains a safe place to  live.

b)     In times of recession don’t burglaries usually rise? This has happened in the past but there hasn’t been a change do far, we live in the safest county but public perception is important so every problem needs reporting.

c)     How is traffic speed, flow etc acted on? The problems need to be identified first so reporting is key and then fitting in with protocol, passing traffic enquiries to traffic management.

d)     Tadcaster Road is a particular area of speeding in the ward? Operations do take place in this area and due to it being a major route into York it is a well known hotspot. If further areas are identified it is possible to carry out operations, with speed guns, to address the issue. Community speed watch can also be set up with the help of Safer York.

e)     At peak times buses are a problem which leads to cyclist using the pavements? Action days are planned for the ward in November to address such issues.

f)       Buses drive very fast, do they have Tacographs fitted? Cllr Holvey had already emailed the bus company about this issue. If people notice Park and Ride buses speeding there’s more council control so again report instances.

g)     Would Moorlane be targeted for speeding? This area has been identified as a potential site for utilising the radar guns.

h)     The pavement on Tadcaster Road is very wide, isn’t it better to ride on the pavement than breath in fumes on the road? Cllr Reid stated that cycle city have suggested the footpath is changed to dual use.

i)       Queens Street, Blossom Street is a problem, parking outside take aways and too many traffic lanes? Cllr Reid stated that this is also an area being address by the council.

j)        Riding to school, tiral run with children but the cycle lanes run out at The Mount? Again this is being address by Cycle City to conform with the safe routes to school.