Agenda item

Cllr Hodgson read out PC Jon Bostwick’s report in his absence:

Crime figures

As can be seen in the attached document, our ward compares very well to other wards in the city. Crime on our ward overall went down by 26% from year 2011-12 to 2012-13. This compares to York West reduction of 17% and York total of 12%. Our neighbours Westfield ward only reduced by 9%. Another pleasing result was the Burglary figure. An excellent reduction of 50%,  therefore half the number of victims of burglary on our ward.

Operation Liberal

Doorstep traders offering to clear your guttering or gardening services may seem a good idea at the time, but many will attempt to inflate how much they charge or even steal property while on your roof or in your home.

Op Liberal is a national awareness of Rogue Traders and opportunist Distraction burglars that call to your home. During a week of action week on Monday 22^nd April police and Trading Standards officers made joint patrols dealing with reported Rogue Traders. Local officers have been on the ward handing out crime prevention leaflets and door hangers to elderly or vulnerable residents.

The message is simple…..NOT SURE ?   DON’T OPEN THE DOOR.

If you haven’t had a visit from our team then please help yourself to a leaflet and door hanger.

Regards,

PC 389 Jon Bostwick

Questions were invited from the floor:  

Question:  Can we asked for actual figures and not percentages in future

In response- Councillor will ask for this to be provided.

Question: what does ‘other’ mean on crime figures?

In response:Councillor Reid replied anything that’s not on the list.

Question: when was the last person arrested for dropping litter?

In response:  Councillor Reid said she would look into it and report at the next meeting.

Response received following the meeting:

Street Environment Service is the team that issues Fixed Penalty Notices (FPN) for littering.  Fines are £75 reduced to £50 if paid within 10 days of the FPN being issued. As a team we try to do a weekly 2 hour patrol which covers the whole of the city centre and we issued 6 FPNs while on patrol on Thursday 2 May.

We then will focus patrols on problem areas as and when these come up - whether its a complaint that has come in from a member of the public or an area that we are concerned about. In Dringhouses and Woodthorpe Ward as you are aware we have the problem with littering from students at York College.  We issue a few FPNs when we patrol at the college but as most of the students we stop are under 18 years old they receive a stopped for littering ticket for their first offence (a letter goes to their home address (and to parents if they are under 16 years old) which they have to sign and send back to us).  We can and have issued FPNs to under 18 years if its a second offence or there has been other circumstances which means that we, as officers, has taken the decision to issue a FPN. If someone does not pay their FPN, then we go back to the original offence of dropping litter and we prosecute them (as this is a criminal offence).

Question: a resident informed the meeting that leaflets were being posted through letterboxes advertising forhandy man work

In response Councillor Hodgson informed the meetingto report it to PC Jon Bostwick so police are aware.