Safer Neighbourhood Team - Grassington
'' We are ranked as the second highest performing Force in the UK''
Grassington Safer Neighbourhood Team
Are part of the Craven Rural Safer Neighbourhod Team.
The team consists of;-
Inspector Kevin Franks ( based at Skipton )
Sergeant 359 Andy Gill. ( Grassington )
The Officers shown below are responsible for a Council Ward Area.
Pc 1100 Jason Payne - Barden Fell Ward ( Bolton Abbey, Burnsall, Appletreewick,Hetton, Cracoe, Draughton, Hetton, Rylstone)
Pc 1405 Simon Crossley - Grassington Ward ( Grassington, Linton in Craven , Hebden, Hartlington,Raikes )
Pc 1014 Vanessa Bateson - Upper Wharfedale Ward ( Threshfield, Conistone,Kettlwell, Arncliffe,Starbotton, Buckden and Upper Wharfedale) - Wildlife Crime Officer
Pc 1728 Rich' Sutcliffe - Gargrave and Malhamdale Ward ( Gargrave , Bank Newton, Coniston Cold, Bell Busk, Airton, Malham, Kirkby Malham, Otterburn, Winterburn,Stirton, Thorlby )
POLICING PRIORITY FOR APRIL - JUNE 2009 ;- ( Grassington SNT )
Anti-social behaviour - GARGRAVE ( The Summer Seat / Neville Road areas )
LATEST NEWS !!
PCSO 6245 Gary Battisson is the new PCSO at Grassington. Gary is currently in training at HQ Newby Wiske and will be joining the team later in the summer. He is replacing Dave Dixon who left North Yorkshire Police in January 2009 to follow a new career path as a full time fire fighter in Keighley, West Yorkshire ( best of luck in the new job Dave ! ).
Simon and Vanessa will be attending the National Wildlife Crime Officers Course in July. When completed they will be qualified as a Wildflife Crime Officers. Simon will assist Vanessa in the Craven Area as well as providing Wildlife Crime officer cover for North Yorkshire.
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You can contact Grassington Safer Neighbourhood Team
by telephone -
01423 539460 ( answer machine )
North Yorkshire Police - 0845 6060247
Or by E-mail - SNTcraven@northyorkshire.pnn.police.uk
Callers with Hearing or Speech impairments,
call via the “RNID Typetalk” service,
18001 0845 60 60 24 7
Neighbourhood Policing is all about working with the community and partner organisations. Over the past year we have been we have been working closely with a number of local agencies, the business community and individuals, including Craven District Council, NYCC, The Safer Craven Partnership, the voluntary sector and other groups, to deliver an effective service and to solve problems.
Our priorities for next year are focussed on creating safer neighbourhoods through neighbourhood policing. We will acheive this by providing a more citizen focussed Police Service which actively listens to what people want and responds to your concerns by agreeing and delivering local actions and sharing results with you. We also want to make it easier for you to get involved with us and our partners in pin pointing local problems and identifying solutions to those issues that impact on your quality of life within your neighbourhood.
We are keen that individual members of the community become invloved in our work and there are a number of ways that you can do that.
GET INVOLVED !!
We are keen that individual members of our community become involved in informing our priorities, providing information and helping us identify and target criminal behaviour. There are a number of ways that you can become involved:
- Join one of our consultation and problem solving groups
- Be a recipient of our regular surveys
- Attend one of quarterly community and Police meetings
Click on the following links;-
Join a Neighbourhood Watch or Country Watch Scheme
Work with us as a special constable
Contact your local Council or County Councillor
Contact the Safer Neighbourhood Team at Grassington for further information.
Creating Safer Neighbourhoods for each and every community in North Yorkshire and the City of York is our overarching priority and will be at the heart of everything we do.
Adam Briggs Graham Maxwell
We are taking advantage of modern methods of policing and tools available to us, while still maintaining a traditional policing style that the public has told us they want. North Yorkshire Police has strong traditional roots; however, we are also a modern police force which needs to deliver the same community "bobby on the beat" values in a way that best suits todays local communities.
We are providing a more visible, community-based police service, with teams whose members are known to their local communities. Our teams do not stand alone, and are becoming integrated within centres of the community such as schools, health centres, shops and libraries. We are seeking out opportunities to engage and communicate with our communities at all levels, from County and Borough Councils, through to local interest groups. These opportunities will continue to ensure that you can easily reach us through a range of methods designed to meet your needs.
The delivery of Safer Neighbourhoods will mean that your neighbourhood will feel safe, and you will feel confident and empowered to initiate action about those community issues that affect you.
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Operation Drystone
Operation Drystone, launched on 27 October 2008, is the largest operation of its kind to have ever taken place in North Yorkshire and the City of York.
Operation Drystone
Chief Constable Grahame Maxwell said: "Drystone is all about building safer neighbourhoods and the public are absolutely crucial to this campaign because they can provide us with vital information.
"We will be focusing on those, such as drug dealers and burglars, who bring misery to our neighbourhoods.
"But we will also be targeting crimes such as antisocial behaviour and shed theft. These are dismissed by some as minor, but they are not minor to the victims or the areas they blight and at North Yorkshire Police we do not regard crimes against our communities as minor."
He said: "We intend to keep our low crime rates - some of the lowest in the country - by giving our public what they want; a visible, accessible police force which is on the side of the law abiding majority."
Posters highlighting Operation Drystone will feature officers at work in the wide range of backdrops that make up the force area.
"North Yorkshire Police has the largest and probably the most geographically diverse force area in the country," said Mr Maxwell.
"But whether we are patrolling city estates or country villages, coastal towns or moorland farms, our aim is the same, to build up safer neighbourhoods by delivering modern policing in a traditional way."
Policing The District of Craven
The District is the most westerly in North Yorkshire, spread across 456 miles2 (1180 km2) of land that extends north from a boundary near Skipton, with West Yorkshire to the southeast, Lancashire to the west, and Cumbria to the northwest.
The area covers 117,876 hectares (15% of North Yorkshire), and it has a population of 53,600, giving it a population density of 44 people per square kilometre, being in the top ten lowest population density councils in England. (UK average 245 people per sq km).
The District includes the upper reaches of Wharfedale, Ribblesdale, Airedale and part of Lonsdale, with great limestone ridges and caverns between the dales, and with the fells and moors rising to the higher Pennines that culminate in the Three Peaks of Ingleborough, Whernside and Pen-y-Ghent.
In addition to Craven's landscapes being of national renown, the area boasts many features of national and international significance due to their nature conservation or historic environmental interest.
The District is served by transport links of both strategic and historic importance. It contains the key trunk route of the A65 linking the conurbations of West Yorkshire to the Dales and further to the Lake District. Craven is bisected from North to South by the scenic Settle-Carlisle railway line, and in the south of the District by the popular Leeds- Liverpool Canal, which attains its most northerly point at Gargrave.
The District, although predominantly rural has a diverse economy, with agriculture and quarrying being the traditional mainstay. This diversity incorporates a variety of small to medium sized businesses, and a manufacturing sector including companies such as Johnson & Johnson Wound Management, Angus Fire and Transtechnology. Tourism is an important factor in Craven's local economy.
The District benefits from its proximity and excellent transport links to Leeds and Bradford, and also those to Lancashire and Cumbria. Craven's central location in the country as a whole is beneficial, and it is within easy reach of Leeds/Bradford and Manchester airports.
Craven benefits from a relatively stable economy with unemployment below regional and national levels. However, in spite of its high economic activity rate, Craven is recognised as being at the less prosperous end of North Yorkshire's "two tier economy", with low wage levels, restricted employment opportunities, and a lower Gross Domestic Product (GDP) than the County as a whole.
Income levels are substantially below the national average. With the decline of traditional employment such as farming, financial security for many people is poor.
Craven District boasts excellent standards of educational attainment. This is a key factor in attracting people to live in the area, with the resulting increasing pressure on house prices.
Craven College, in Skipton, is one of the largest FE Colleges in North Yorkshire, attracts many students from outside the District, and provides an outreach service to rural areas.
The recent Census information confirms that Craven's population is ageing more than other parts of the country. This is in part due to the net out-migration of young people (16-24 year olds) from Craven, which is exacerbated by the lack of facilities for young people in rural areas, a lack of local jobs to keep them in the District, and the lack of affordable housing - a key issue.
Latest Crime Figures
Crime Continues to Fall in North Yorkshire
The latest figures for York and North Yorkshire show that overall crime has continued to fall with a drop of 1.5%.
The figures for the period 1 April - 31 December 2008, showed a reduction in reported crime of 582 offences compared to the same period in 2007 when there were 37,950 offences in total.
However, an area of concern for officers is the increase in burglary, robbery and auto-crime.
Chief Constable Grahame Maxwell, said: "It is pleasing to see that the hard work of our officers and staff has resulted in an overall reduction in crime, and, despite the current economic challenges, we are on track to meet our crime reduction targets for the year.
"However, the increase in specific types of crime is of concern to us and as a result, we have stepped up preventative and problem solving activity with extra resources ploughed into these areas.
"We have put several measures in place, including our current crime reduction initiative Operation Drystone, which will take extra resources and high-visibility patrols into hot-spot areas.
"Local Safer Neighbourhood Teams are working together with Road Policing officers CID and our partner agencies including community safety partnerships and Neighbourhood Watch, to target areas of concern. In particular, travelling criminals who come to our county with the specific intention of committing crime.
"Despite the increases in certain types of crime, North Yorkshire still remains one of the safest counties in the country to live and work. Recent Home Office figures also reveal that we have the lowest rates of gun crime and homicide in England and Wales. We are committed to ensuring that this continues."
Latest Figures
All Crime down by 582 offences to 37,377 offences
Violent Crime down by 969 offences to 6,832 offences
Serious acquisitive crime which includes burglary, robbery theft and autocrime - increase of 640 offences to 6,138.
Many thefts and burglaries are carried out by opportunist thieves, residents can help keep their property safe by taking a few simple crime prevention measures:
Home Security
· Fit strong locks to external doors and windows, and make sure they are locked.
· Remove the keys and keep them out of sight and in a safe place.
· Don't leave tempting valuables on view - lock them away where they can't be seen or found easily
· Consider fitting a letterbox cage to prevent thieves from reaching through to open the door.
· Fit a door chain or bar and door viewer (spy-hole). Use them every time someone calls.
· Never leave a spare key in a convenient hiding place such as under the doormat or flowerpot, thieves know to look there first
Don't leave ladders and other items lying around which could facilitate access to windows
· Join your local Neighbourhood Watch scheme.
Alert the police to any suspicious activity in your area
Vehicle Security
· Never leave items on display - lock them in the boot, if you can't take them with you
· Use an immobiliser
· Park safely, if you don't have a garage, try to park in well-lit open areas
· Use secure car parks when out and about
· Use a steering-wheel lock
· Use lockable wheel nuts
· Mark all your equipment with your registration number
Register your equipment such as mobile phones, electrical equipment etc, with a free account with the National Mobile Property Register - Immobilise.
This is a national database of property which all UK police officers have access to. Allowing any property recovered by police to be easily identified and swiftly reunited with its rightful owner. For information log onto www.immobilise.com.
