CRIME BUSTERS NUMBER 36 Autumn 2012

OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF NUNEATON & BEDWORTH NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH www.nbnwa.org.uk

If you are interested in crime data in the area where you live you can find it on the new web site at:

www.police.uk

Detailed data, down to street level, on all crime, burglary, robbery, vehicle crime, violence and anti-social behaviour is available. aver-aged over the most recent month by month.

Figures here show total numbers of reported incidents and crime rates for the first and second quarters of the year.

As a part of National Neighbourhood Watch Week 2012, Warwick-shire Police Authority hosted an event at Warwickshire Police in Leek Wootton in June. It aimed to bring together key criminal justice agencies and community leaders from the Black, Mi-nority and Ethnic (BME) Communities from across Warwickshire. The event also marked the 30th anniversary of Neighbourhood Watch in the UK and attracted over 80 key individuals. The partnership event was organised in collaboration with WREP, Warwickshire Police Authority, Warwickshire Police, Warwickshire Neighbourhood Watch and Crimestoppers, to begin discussions on how communities and agencies can collectively work with each other in making reporting systems more inclusive of BME communities and residents and to highlight the role that BME residents can play through a variety of community safety initiatives. In addition, it was an opportunity for the criminal justice agencies to understand the barriers BME communities face in participating in Neighbourhood and Home Watch Schemes and begin working to-wards addressing these barriers. The BME community leaders were encouraged to assist the various agencies by volunteering and in-creasing communication and engagement as national research, through the Crime Survey for England and Wales 2010/11, had showed that the risk of being a victim of personal crime was higher amongst all BME groups than for white counterpart groups. Speakers discussed that a more inclusive, two way process could only happen if the communities are fully integrated into existing Neighbourhood Watch structures and schemes within Warwickshire, from taking up membership and participating in key steering groups and also by encouraging community members to adopt roles within the Police force. This can be through volunteering and becoming Special Constables and acting as ambassadors for BME communities within the criminal justice system. Speakers on the day included:

� Andy Parker QPM, Chief Constable, Warwickshire Police

� Oliver Winters, Chief Executive, Warwickshire Police Authority

� Dr James Shera MBE, Chair, Warwickshire Race Equality Partner-ship

� Brian Lowe, Chair, Warwickshire Neighbourhood Watch Associa-tion

Presentations covered a range of topics; Neighbourhood Watch, Po-lice Support Volunteers, Special Constables and Crimestoppers. Feedback from the event has been overwhelmingly positive and many of the attendees expressed an interest in getting involved in the opportunities available .

Making our communities Safer....Together

PODWatch Open for Business

It’s Official Established earlier in the year under working arrange-ment agreed between Posi-tive about Young People and Nuneaton & Bedworth Neighbourhood Watch Asso-ciation , Kingswood POD-

Watch was officially opened on 18 August. Cutting the ribbon was carried out by Michael Maguire, Chief Executive Officer of Positive about Young People. The official opening had been origi-nally planned for the last Saturday in June but bad weather caused postponements.

Organised by the PODWatch members (all local residents between 8 and 14 years old) the successful event took the form of a fun day. The young people, supported by the adult leaders, were involved at all stages; the planning, the delivery and in taking part.

The timetable for the day included a range of activities; sack racing, face painting, beat the goalie, art work, egg and spoon racing, bean bag hurling and 100 metres dash.

It is estimated that, at some time during the course of the day, more that seventy five people visited the event with many of them taking part in the activities. As well as the young people themselves and the support staff from Positive about Young Peo-ple, a number of parents and older siblings turned up with many of them joining in. For part of the time two members of the Warwick-

shire Fire & Rescue Bike Patrol, accompanied by a PCSO from War-wickshire Police, also dropped in to chat with the other visitors.

After the start of the new school term the POD will be open for two sessions each week in addition to the regular meeting of the POD-Watch group who will continue to look after the POD and each other.

Editorial Snippets

New Volunteer Coordinators

During past three three there has been a significant upsurge in the recruitment of volunteer Coordinators in the Borough. This has oc-curred principally through existing volunteers working together in partners hip with the Police and the two local Project Officers of Warwickshire County Council.

New schemes have been formed in Attleborough(2), Barpool(1), St Nicolas(2), Weddington(3) and Whitestone(5). Bermuda Park Resi-dents Association and Heart of Whitestone Residents Association have also both signed up as Affiliate Members of Nuneaton & Bed-worth Neighbourhood Watch Association.

The most worthy of note, however, was the phenomenal success of Bedworth & Bulkington NW arising from a joint recruitment cam-paign with local PCSOs on the Trees Estate in Exhall where they re-cruited a staggering total of no less than eighty six new volunteer coordinators. Well Done!

Olympic Games and Volunteers

Right from the bid process until the post-games evaluation of what has been hailed by many as the most successful Olympics ever, there has been much said about their “legacy”. This indeed has been a unique feature of London 2012. Long after the games have finished the Olympic Village will provide living accommodation for generations and many of the competition venues will be used to train thousands of young people.

A second significant feature of the games was the use of volunteers; their recruitment, their training and their effective deployment. Per-haps most important of all was the well deserved public recognition of their efforts; by the visitors, by the competitors and by the organ-isers. Hopefully this will result in a legacy even more important than that of the village and venues. That of a revival of the spirit of vol-unteering!

During a television programme broadcast the day after the closing ceremony one of the reviewers remarked on how good it would be if one of the legacies of the games was to lead to the increase in those volunteering to look out for neighbours, particularly the vulnerable. What a “good idea”! Somebody should have thought of that (30) years ago.

Brian Lowe Editor

New ACC joins Warwickshire and West Mercia Police Alliance A new Assistant Chief Constable has joined the Warwickshire Police and West Mercia Police Alliance on Monday, July 9 as the new ACC with responsibility for Local Policing for the Alliance. ACC Morgan was appointed on Thursday 7 June, after a stringent selection process involv-ing Warwickshire Police Authority’s Appoint-ments and Remuneration Committee together with Chief Constables Andy Parker (Warwickshire) and David Shaw (West Mercia) and Police Au-thority chairs Phil Robson and Sheila Blagg. The decision was made by both police authorities

Gareth joins the force from ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers) where he was working as Chief of Staff to the ACPO President, Sir Hugh Orde, and he previously worked for West Midlands Police.

He said: “I’m delighted to be joining the Alliance Chief Officer team at this most interesting of times and taking on the exciting challenge of being an ACC for two police forces.

“I’m looking forward to seeing how Warwickshire and West Mer-cia both deliver policing and contribute to keeping communities safe across four counties.

“Work at ACPO was personally and professionally challenging, but it’s great to be returning to the West Midlands region and hav-ing the privilege of working in the force area where I live.”

Phil Robson, chair of Warwickshire Police Authority, said: “We are delighted Gareth Morgan has started in the post of Assistant Chief Constable for Local Policing.

“He joins the Alliance forces of Warwickshire and West Mercia at a very exciting time for both communities. The Chief Constables of both forces and the two respective Police and Crime Commis-sioners, when elected, will be introducing some innovative changes to local policing.

“This is a big job and Gareth has the experience and personal qualities we need to make sure our communities experience lower levels of crime, stay safe and feel safe. He is an excellent addition to our chief officer teams.”

At the AGM of N&BNWA held on April 19th this year we were pleased to welcome 18 co-ordinators together with 3 police officers and representatives from WCC and N&BBC. After the presentation of the usual reports the meeting re-elected the executive committee for a further year however the secretary had said she would continue with recruitment for the next twelve months, but would be looking to shed this role at the next AGM due to health reasons. The official business was followed by a presentation from DCC Neil Brunton. His main theme was a Thank You to all involved in NW for their support in encouraging their members to work more closely with the police and this resulted in the public being better informed about crime and how to prevent it. He then went on the explode a few myths about the amount of crime that is perceived and the actu-ality. For example; how many House burglaries occur in our bor-ough on average per day? The meeting thought between 5 and 10 when records show the average to be 2. There was a similar pattern with other recorded crime. His main message was to let us know it is not as bad as we may fear but with our help the police aim to make it even safer.

Heather Lowe, Secretary N&BNWA

AGM 2012 REPORT Since its introduction 1n 2009 over 32,000 phones have reg-istered with emergencySMS

How the emergencySMS service works

The emergency SMS service is an add-on to the existing 999 service that is available in

the UK. Your SMS text message will be connected to 999 through the Text Relay 18000 service.

A relay assistant will speak your SMS message to the 999 advisor, their reply will be sent back to you as an SMS message. If you send another SMS text message the relay assistant will read it to the 999 advisor and send their reply back to you.

Registering your mobile phone

You need to register your mobile phone before using the emergency SMS service. This is best done before you need help. You can regis-ter by sending an SMS text message from your mobile phone. http://www.emergencysms.org.uk/how_to_send_text.php

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Community Forums Community forums are open public meetings, held four times per year at various locations within your local area on week day evenings. They give you the chance to discuss what's im-portant to you in your community with local councillors, police and organisations that provide public services. They take the form of an interactive event that enable residents to learn about issues affecting their area, get answers to questions and influence local decision-making. If you would like to suggest an issue for a future Forum meeting, or get involved, please contact the Nuneaton & Bedworth Area Office. Dates and venues of future meetings may be found at:

www.warwickshire.gov.uk/communityforums

Contact Details: The meetings are arranged and coordinated by:

Warwickshire County Council Nuneaton & Bedworth Area Office Room 101, Town Hall Coton Road, Nuneaton, CV11 5AA

T: 02476 375 700 E: nuneatonandbedworth@warwickshire.gov.uk

Letter to the Editor

From: Alison Whitehead Sent: 22 July 2012 Subject: Community Forums

Hi,

I received this week a copy of the crime busters newsletter with the dates and venues for the meetings which had all past. It would be really helpful if the dates could be included for future events to enable residents to attend and arrange their diaries.

I hope that you find this useful feedback for the future.

Regards, Alison

Hi Alison

Thanks for the feedback. You have a good point. The problem is one we have been made aware of before but it is not always possible us to solve completely.

Firstly the dates are not arranged by the Warwickshire County Council officers too far in advance. For instance those for the autumn round are published but those for the final round of 2012 have yet to be arranged and published. This means that, as Crime Busters is itself a quar-terly publication, we can only include one set of arrangements in each edition. We believe that, ideally, arrangements should be made for at least 6 months in advance so that we could get them out to our readers in good time for them to add to their diaries.

However, that being said, we have another facet to the problem. That is for the most part our distribution of 6500 copies depends on volun-tary activity. Firstly a small team count, pack and label quantities of copies which are delivered to an area drop off point before being fur-ther distributed to street scheme coordinators. These, in turn, deliver them to members. All this takes time and depends wholly on the indi-vidual circumstances affecting each link of the chain.

We do our best to ensure that copies of Crime Busters do get to readers before any content becomes out of date, and for the most part we succeed, However, as in your case, something goes wrong and a copy of an edition that was published and started on its way to your letter box in late May, takes until mid July to arrive. We hope that it doesn’t happen again.

Regards Editor

Chief Inspector Colin Reynolds

Bedworth East & Town Centre Bedworth West Nuneaton West Nuneaton

Central Nuneaton Town

Centre Nuneaton North Nuneaton South

Inspector 0794 Patrick Devereux

Sergeant 0507 Paul Spedding

Sergeant 0774 Paul Kemp

Nuneaton East

PCSO 6133 Paul Edwards

PCSO 6229 Linda Shepherd

PC 0404 Stuart Barnes

The Nuneaton Academy & St Tho-mas Moore School

PCSO 6073 Matt Steele

PC 1707 Jude Hood

PCSO 6141 Jade Badhams

PCSO 6081 Dave Barnes

PC 1952 Iain Sherwin

PCSO 6209 Kerry Owens

PCSO 6246 Natasha Malone

PCSO 6155 David Marshall

PCSO 6033 Maria Darker

PCSO 6219 StephenGalloway

PC 1513 Stuart Powell

PCSO 6208 Hannah Woodhams

PCSO 6207 Elizabeth Udall

PC 0616

Nina Staite PC 0927

Simon Krakowski

George Eliot School

PCSO 6247 Claire Murray

PCSO 6193 Adam Merriman

PCSO 6121 Rashpal Samra

PC 1509 Amarjit Atwal

PC 1687 Paul Painter

PCSO 6186 Marjory Shaw

PCSO 6251 Angie Gavin

PCSO 6035 Sue Laing

PCSO 6142 Nina Bailey

PCSO 6183 Tony Winter

PCSO 6199 Khane Barlow

NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICING TEAMS Nuneaton & Bedworth

Special Inspector Dave Turner

Ash Green School & Nicholas Chamberlain School

PCSO 6235 Carly Greenfield

Higham Lane School &

Etone College

PCSO 6244 Joe Holland

SC 3272 Mansukh Patel

SC 3819 Elliot Watson

SC 3654 John Coleman

SC 3810 Steven Elliot

SC 3626 Kiranjeet Pinder

SC 3597 Gary Hayton

SC 3764 Mark Maguire

SC 3767 Doug Murphy

SC 3632 Katie Wilson

SC 3712 Chris Watts

SC 3618 Sema Rishi

SC 3708 Joe O’Connor

SC 3411 Sam Olner

SC 3838 Tracey Copson

SC 3435 Kim Sturdy

SC 3719 Dan Barnes

SC 3734 Sean Mistry

SC 3825 Elizabeth White

SC 3265 Robert Bowers

SC 3231 Manjinder Phagura

SC 3144 Mark Hewitt

SC 3090 Michelle Kemp

SC 3847 Reece Stringer

SC 3848 Ryan Walker

SC 3783 Wendy Short

SC 3079 Gary Paterson

SC 3689 Jason Coulter

SC 3756 Dan Bloomfield

SC 3793 Matthew Craddock

SC 3822 Vikki Banks

SC 3781 Vince Pegg

SC3580 Darshak Kacha

SC 3829 Jason Ryan

SC 3407 Clive Jackson

SC 3097 Claire Anstee

SC 3516 Richard West

SC 3286 Paul Sharp

SC 3827 Andrew Green

SC 3408 James Bister

SC 3709 Scott Finding

NOTE: Special Constables After their initial training all Special Constables are assigned to a specific Safer Neighbourhood Team. Specials may work with all police teams, but there is an expectation that they prioritise support of the Safer Neighbourhood Team

NOTE: PCSOs deployed in the Safer Schools initiative each have responsibility for specified secondary schools.

NOTE: Information correct as of 23/08/2012