New NPU Inspector

The new NPU Inspector for Runcorn from the 1st October 2008 will be Derek Lockie who is currently the Inspector at Risley. Can I thank you all for your support over the last two years, this has been the most challenging but most satisfying role I have had within the organisation and I am sad to be moving on but please give Derek the welcome I had on my arrival.

Operation Orange 3

This Operation has run throughout the school holidays, since the last day of school it has concentrated on high visibility patrols at schools and appears to have deterred offenders from committing crime on closed school premises.

Operation Granite 2-Nuisance motorcycles

The number of calls with regards to nuisance use of motorcycles in Runcorn is still lower than last year, 25 motorcycles have now been seized since.

Quest Appointments

Quest appointments are still high dropping from 176 to 171, there are still days when the NPU service 11 or 12 appointments.

Performance

Overall crime performance has been helped this month by the number of drugs offences detected at Creamfields but this along with and increase in some violent crime and burglary dwellings has pushed the numbers of offences reported considerably over the target figure set.

The arrest of a couple of prolific offenders recently is likely to see a reduction in the volume of crime reported.

Current Priority Areas

1. Anti Social behaviour by youths in the Halton Lodge area, this is being targeted working alongside the Registered Social Landlord.
2. Youth Nuisance in the Grangeway area.
3. Burglary dwellings
4. Violent crime

Licensing Issues

The Operational plan is in its final stages of development with the intention to roll it out during the autumn prior to Christmas.

Community Action Meetings

Runcorn Central

• Monday 22nd September 2008 6pm @ Brookvale Children's Centre, Woodhatch Rd
• Monday 15th December 2008 7pm @ Hallwood Park School, Hallwood Park Avenue

Runcorn East

• Wednesday 17th September 2008, 7pm @ Phoenix Park, Castlefields Avenue East

'Policing - Have your say' (Forum)

• Wednesday 8th October 2008, 7pm @ Grangeway Community Centre, Runcorn
• Wednesday 28th January 2009, 7pm @ Kingsway Learning centre, Widnes

Contact

In an emergency, always contact 999

For general enquiries or to report a crime or incident dial 0845 458 0000

For Crimestoppers ring 0800 555 111

For the Runcorn NPU ring 0845 458 6381 or e-mail
Runcorn.cat@cheshire.pnn.police.uk

To contact myself ring 01244 613912 or e-mail Richard.hill@cheshire.pnn.police.uk

Richard Hill, Runcorn Neighbourhood Policing Unit

Runcorn East

• Wednesday 25th June 2008, 7pm @ Methodist Church, Preston on the Hill
• Wednesday 17th September 2008, 7pm @ Phoenix Park, Castlefields Avenue East

Runcorn Central

• Monday 30th June 2008, 8pm @ Halton Lodge Community Centre
• Monday 11th August 2008, 7pm @ Palace Fields Community Centre, The Uplands
• Monday 22nd Sept 2008, 6pm @ Brookvale Children's Centre, Woodhatch Rd
• Monday 15th Dec 2008, 7pm @ Hallwood Park School, Hallwood Park Avenue

Runcorn West

• Thursday 3rd July 2008, 7pm @ Runcorn Town Hall

Contact

In an emergency, always contact 999

For general enquiries or to report a crime or incident dial 0845 458 0000

For Crimestoppers ring 0800 555 111

For the Runcorn NPU ring 0845 458 6381 or e-mail Runcorn.cat@cheshire.pnn.police.uk

Policing is no longer just about the Cops chasing round in cars with blue lights and sirens, there is an element of that but we now rely on the bigger police family and the community.

Policing in this country is done by consent, I want people to support us and tell us what they feel are the problems in their area. We run Community Action Meetings (CAMS) when we ask the community what the local priorities should be for the next 3 months in their area, yesterday Mike Rimmer held one at the Town Hall for those who live in the Runcorn West area. The priorities agreed last night will be posted on this blog next week and I will also publish the dates of the CAMS over the next six months.

Helen Newlove this week has been talking to the Home Affairs Committee in London following the murder of her husband, Gary. She is the Patron of ArcAngel-our Alcohol Related Crime campaign.

She suggested that supermarkets and shops should be held more to account over the sale of alcohol, she also suggested that the parents of unruly youths who do not show responsibility should be named and shamed. A lot of what she said people in Runcorn are often telling me and my staff.

I feel that we need to work together with the community and the shops to identify those who are causing grief to the public. We have recently applied for an ASBO against a 15 year old who was making his neighbours life unbearable, this could not have been done without the help of all the community who told us what he had done.

If you have a problem tell us and we will work with you to try and resolve it.

If you want to contact me or my team and don’t know how to you can ring 0845 458 6381and leave a message for us on our answer machine and someone should contact you within 48 hours, or send us e-mail at Runcorn.cat@cheshire.pnn.police.uk

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