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FOREST ROW, HARTFIELD, NUTLEY, DANEHILL, FAIRWARP AND HOLTYE

Community Contact Wealden Tuesday 15 January to Wednesday 23 January

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APPEALS, MESSAGES AND NEWS

Press Release

Chief Inspector Neil Honnor, Wealden District Commander

As part of the drive for more local involvement in identifying community safety priorities, the Safer Wealden Partnership (SWP) and Sussex Police are increasing the amount of engagement and consultation undertaken in communities. A key factor from many communities, particularly those from small villages, is speeding and road safety. This of course is not a new issue, but the focus on localism enables us to spend more time and resources responding to those crucial issues.

Because speeding and road safety is such priority within the communities of Wealden, the SWP have identified it as one of the 5 priorities in our draft Strategic Intelligence Assessment (SIA). The SIA will inform our community safety delivery plan, which will identify what action we have in place to respond to the priorities. Hopefully you will see that this process, ensures that we are held to account for local priorities.

We have been working hard to respond to the road safety agenda. Last year the SWP set up a new 'Road Safety Focus' group. The response to road safety issues, cross cuts partners responsibility therefore the group is made up from representatives from Police, County and district council, Fire and rescue, amongst others. The groups work is in the preliminary stages currently, but it will provide a really effective conduit for local people to influence decision making.

There are many elements to increasing road safety, such as; educating road users, road design, enforcement, speed restrictions, advertising, and it is important that we remain focused with our partners on tackling the issue through these and measures. However speeding is often cited as the main contributor to reducing road safety, and it certainly is a significant contributory factor. But speeding is also highly anti social, particularly in community areas such as villages housing estates and pedestrian areas. To tackle this 'community anti social driving', local Neighbourhood Teams have recently been trained in the specialist role of speed enforcement, a function previously the reserve of Roads Policing Officers. This allows me to directly respond to community speeding matters, and a programme of enforcement is underway. We are also piloting a 'Speed Watch' scheme in the villages of Buxted and Maresfield, here local people have been trained and the project is under way. To further supplement the 'Speed Watch' scheme, I am also training my PCSOs to use the speed detection equipment, this will have the added advantage of increased visibility and prevention.

Arson - Forest Row, as per CC message

Sometime in the early hours of Sunday 6 January a fire was deliberately started at the a business premises on the Forest Row Business Park. The fire was eventually extinguished by the East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service but caused considerable damage to the contents within the building and the building itself .

Police are appealing for witnesses and are keen to trace a group of youths seen in the area prior to the fire. If anyone has any information they are asked to contact DC Dave Satchwell at Uckfield Police Station on 0845 60 70 999 quoting serial  80 of the 6th January 2008 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 

Criminal Damage -  Hartfield

Sometime between 11pm on Wednesday 16th January and 8am on Thursday 17th January a sash  window was broken at the front of a property in Newtons Hill, Hartfield .

If anyone has any information they are asked to contact Pc Richard Cooke  at Uckfield Police Station on 0845 60 70 999 quoting serial  308 of the 18th January 2008 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 

Messages

Operation Crackdown – Sussex Police needs you!

With your help Sussex Police are cracking down on abandoned vehicles and anti social driving. Sussex Police are leading a pioneering partnership which employs the latest technology to provide an easy to use facility for Sussex residents to report these vehicles.

It’s two main objectives are to reduce the amount of time vehicles remain abandoned and to target persistent bad drivers before they cause an accident.

Anti social driving can range from careless driver behaviour to deliberate activity. It not only affects road safety but also the quality of life in local communities. Abandoned vehicles left for extended periods of time often inspire more crime to take place, such as arson, thieves will strip them of their parts or they are taken and re-abandoned elsewhere. Once what may have been someone’s pride and joy becomes a blot on the landscape.

If you see an abandoned vehicle or someone driving in an anti social manner you need to:

• Pull over safely at the side of the road or ask a passenger to write down details
• Note the vehicle’s make, model, colour and number plate
• When noting the location, the house numbers and road names to pinpoint where the incident happened r where you spotted a potential abandoned vehicle
• Write a brief description of what you witnessed, while it is still fresh in your mind
• If it’s an abandoned vehicle, if possible take a photograph of it

 Visit www.operationcrackdown.org to report anti social driving and abandoned vehicles

CRIME REPORT

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Vehicle Crime

Contact Information

In an emergency dial 999
For less urgent matters call the Sussex Police Call Handling Centre on 0845 60 70 999 (open 24 x 7).
E-mail Sussex Police to report crime, click on http://www.sussex.police.uk/contact_us.asp
Please quote the relevant serial number and date if you are responding to a reported crime, if not, ask to report a crime and request the serial number.

Information about any type of crime can be given anonymously by calling CRIMESTOPPERS (open 24x7) 0800 555111 or email www.crimestoppers-uk.org/

To find out who your local Police Officers and Police Community Support Officers are and how to contact them go to http://www.sussex.police.uk type in your post code and you’ll now find the names of all your local neighbourhood officers. Click on their pictures and you’ll see their personal profiles and contact details.

Free Home Fire Safety Visits by East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Fire Safety advice available at http://www.esfrs.org/

Other Contacts
Safer Wealden Partnership: Dave Law Anti Social Behaviour Co-ordinator 0845 6070999 ext. 33231 Email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Trading Standards: 01323 418200 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
British Transport Police: 0800 405040

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