Agenda item
Safer Neighbourhood Police Team
Find out about the new working arrangements for the police team and the latest police work across the ward.
Minutes:
Insp. Mark Henderson gave an update on Safer Neighbourhood Police Team activity.
3.1 Inspector Phil Cain was introduced to residents. Inspector Cain will be looking after the residential area, outside of the city walls, of Micklegate ward.
3.2 Police are facing financial restructure with £24,000,000 of savings to be made and 523 job posts cut in the next four years. Job reduction will be mainly civilian office staff, and losses will be made by not filling vacancies created by natural wastage.
3.3 Police boundaries will be changed and from 21st of March 2011 Micklegate will be split into inner and outer. Officers for Micklegate inner will be operating from Fulford Police Station and officers for Micklegate outer will be operating from Acomb Police Station.
3.4 PCSO’S for your area will stay the same. New shift pattern, covering seven days a week will ensure the right people will be in the right place at the right time.
3.5 Statistics for the ward show that there is a 15% drop of burglaries, 5% decrease of violence crime. Number of cycle and shop thefts have risen up before Christmas with the highest volume in September and went down in January 2011.
Residents were given the opportunity to raise questions, the following were asked.
Q Who will be covering South Bank?
A Officers operating from Acomb Police Station will cover a South Bank.
Q Are you reopening Acomb Police Station?
A Yes, Acomb has been open for some time, but not as a 24hr station like Fulford, volunteers are staffing the enquiry desk at Acomb Police Station.
Q Will the crime figures be split for Micklegate after the restructure?
A We will be able to produce combined as well as separated reports for Micklegate, which will be presented at the next ward committee meeting.
Q What type of thefts are the most often?
A Cycle theft and shed burglaries in particular. We have some successes with tackling it, but the figures are rising.
Q Does the thieves take cycles to travel somewhere and leave them somewhere else, or they are being stolen to sell?
A Unfortunately most of the stolen bikes are disappearing, and we can’t be sure where they are going.
Q What types of cycles are stolen most often, cheap or expensive?
A Any type of cycles, there is no distinction.
Q What type of bike lock should I use?
A The place where you leave your bike is as much important at the good quality lock. Thieves can break any type of lock, the only difference is that good quality lock will take them more time to open. Gold standard are the locks to buy to secure your bike.
On 17 Feb 11 as part of Operation SPOKE, Security marking of cycles will be available at the cycle Hub Station, Wellington Row from 10:30am to 13:30pm. There are also meetings being held at Clementhorpe Hall, the details can be found on the NYP website.
Q What about people who do not have the access to Internet, how they can know about the meetings and events?
A We shall be distributing posters to go on available notice boards.
Q Is operation ‘Spoke’ the same as cycle tagging operation you was running few years ago?
A ‘Spoke’ is a new operation using better technology, which tags the whole bike.
Councillors and residents thanked Sgt. Neil Wood who will be leaving Micklegate SNT and welcomed Sgt Fiona Willie and Sgt Lindsey Stamp who will be looking after Micklegate.