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Leeds West & North West Neighbourhood Policing Team newsMarch 2018 making a difference locally We’re here for you! Visit us online at www.westyorkshire.police.uk Continued commitment to neighbourhood policing The West Yorkshire Police and Crime Assistant Chief Constable Catherine "The recent precept increase which I have Commissioner (PCC) and West Hankinson, said: "West Yorkshire Police is made locally will allow us to bolster and Yorkshire Police are investing further in committed to representing everyone who help rebuild these NPT teams. The local Neighbourhood Policing Teams to lives, works and visits the county, to listen relationship between West Yorkshire demonstrate their dedication and and be alert to what matters to our Police and our communities is commitment to improve the service communities. "Community engagement is fundamental to successful policing at all they provide to the communities they key to Neighbourhood Policing, delivered levels. serve. through locally based officers, who will be able to identify issues and deal with them at an earlier stage. These changes for our "This new policing model will ensure NPT Mark Burns-Williamson, has invested the NPTs will enable us as a Force to deliver a teams continue working closely with our money into West Yorkshire Police to put more effective service to our communities. partners in helping reduce risk and harm, an extra 100 police constables in to support vulnerable individuals at the first Neighbourhood Policing Teams (NPT) sign of problems, and make our across the county. Working with partners, "Our Neighbourhood Policing Teams are communities safer. the PCC has secured the funding to integral to everything we do at West sustain more than 600 PCSOs ensuring Yorkshire Police and we are reinvesting "Effective community engagement and communities are safe and feel safe. and enhancing resources into our frontline teams. The restructure is important for visibility is fundamental to how West resilience of these teams and sustainability Yorkshire is policed. It is only through Neighbourhood Policing Teams are of our NPTs. genuine and meaningful engagement with integral to policing the communities across our communities that we are able to listen West Yorkshire and working better to, understand and deal with community together with people and partners to "Reducing crime and protecting the safety and anti-social behaviour issues prevent crime and antisocial behaviour. vulnerable are key priorities for West that can make all the difference to the Engaging more with our communities and Yorkshire Police and the key to this is quality of lives." intervening earlier to protect people from having NPTs which are visible, accessible harm will ensure more effective delivery of and engaging with the communities they local policing. work with." Starting on the 19 March, NPTs across Mark Burns-Williamson, West Yorkshire's each District of West Yorkshire held a Police and Crime Commissioner, said: street briefing with officers from the local "The new Neighbourhood Policing Model teams to explain what the changes will will focus on engagement with mean in your area and the investment into communities, problem solving and local policing. prevention and early intervention in helping to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour. Over the past couple of years, officers have been assisted by investment into new technology such as hand-held "Reinvestment into Neighbourhood devices. This ensures officers can spend Policing is crucially important to me in more time away from police stations and delivering my vision of ensuring our remain on the streets keeping people safe communities are safe and feel safe. I am and feeling safe in our communities. NPTs determined as your PCC to always support will be engaging in our communities, will Neighbourhood Policing, which is the be accessible and can be contacted via bedrock of the way we do community social media channels, through the WYP policing here in West Yorkshire and which website, email or by telephone. I know our communities and partners very much support. Visit us online at www.westyorkshire.police.uk Contact Opportunities Mondays ■ Brownlee Stone Centre, Town ■ ASDA, Holt Road, Holt Park, Street, Horsforth, Leeds, LS18 5BL. LS16 7RY. 3pm - 4pm. ■ New Wortley Community Centre, 6pm - 7pm Tong Road. 9.30am - 10.30am. ■ Bramley Community Hub ■ Courtyard Café, Town Street, (Library, Hough Lane, LS13 3ND). Horsforth, LS18 4GN. 11am -12pm. Fridays 12pm - 1pm. ■ Yeadon Library & One Stop ■ Morrisons, 89 Otley Road, Centre, Town Hall Square, LS19 Guiseley, LS20 8PS. 5pm - 6pm. 7PP. 2pm - 3pm ■ Otley Town Council Office, Otley Core Resource Centre, Unit 11, Orchard Gate, Otley, LS21 3NX. Wednesdays 2pm - 3pm. ■ Morrisons, High Street, Yeadon, LS19 7YU. 12pm - 1pm. Saturdays ■ Armley Post Office, 9 - 11 Town ■ Morrisons, 69 Town Street, Street, LS12 1UG. 11am - 12pm. Horsforth, LS18 5BP. 10am - 11am. ■ Otley Town Council Office, Otley ■ Pudsey Library, Church Lane, Core Resource Centre, Unit 11, LS28 7TY. 11am - 12pm. Orchard Gate, Otley, LS21 3NX. 11am - 12pm. Local officers Memory Lane will drop in and show their Dementia Café support too! ■ Do you have memory problems or dementia? ■ Are you supporting a relative or friend who has memory problems or dementia? ■ The Memory Lane Café is chance to make friends with other people from Armley & Wortley living with memory problems and dementia Come join us every third Thursday of the month at: Armley Helping Hands Strawberry Lane Community Centre, LS12 1SF 12 noon until 2.30pm For more information contact Karen Catterill on 0113 2799 292 Visit us online at www.westyorkshire.police.uk Pinning on some safety Pop badge initiative is a success in schools Officers from Leeds West NPT have whilst on the beat. been working with children in Ward Officers and Police Community Farnley and Wortley to remind them Support Officers have attended primary about the importance of road safety. schools in the Farnley and Wortley areas, giving out the first badges whilst Pop badges have been produced to engaging with the pupils around road appeal to primary aged children to safety. Children have been encouraged encourage them to consider theirs and to engage with officers when they are on their family and friends safety when the beat to collect the rest of the set. traveling on the roads of West Yorkshire. Officers on patrol in the area will have a selection of the badges to give out for Six badge designs have been created, the next few weeks following the each focusing on an area of road safety; presentations. drink and drug driving, speeding, using a mobile phone, not wearing a seatbelt, The initiative has already been appropriate child seats and wearing a successfully run in the Calderdale helmet when riding a bike. Policing area. Funding for the badges was secured through the district’s Children are encouraged to collect the partnership funding officer from the full set of 6 badges from local officers Safer Communities Fund. Visit us online at www.westyorkshire.police.uk ‘People who help us’ input for pupils “During our ‘People Who Help Us’ topic, Reception class were very lucky to have a special visitor - the Police, who came to see us for the afternoon! They sat down to tell us all about what they do every day as part of their job and answered any questions the children had about being a Police Officer. They showed us their equipment such as their cameras and safety vests, we even got to send messages to each other using their Police radios! “Next, we went outside into the car park and were given the opportunity to explore the Police van! We sat in the driving seat, played passenger in the back and some of us got locked in the cell! A great big thank you from all the children at Raynville for a fantastic afternoon!” Visit us online at www.westyorkshire.police.uk Police given a frosty reception When snow got really bad during the recent(ish) snowfall and whilst the majority of people were tucked up in front of a warm fire local officers were still hard at work! PC Copeland (pictured) and PCSO Powell had to assist eight stranded motorists on Scotland Lane near the airport. This basically involved getting out of the police van and pushing! So next time you're inside during extreme weather or partying the night away, please raise a glass to the emergency service workers who work 24/7, 365, rain or shine to keep you and your family safe Note: Since this picture was taken, you will be happy to hear that PC Copeland’s face has now thawed out! Visit us online at www.westyorkshire.police.uk PCSO in dog rescue bravery “The young man dived in fully clothed Please take a look at the below post and managed to free the dog and made shared from Greengates Matters on his way back to the near bank where he Facebook. If you were wondering handed the little dog to his companion who the anonymous hero in the who wrapped it in her coat. pictures was, it's out very own, home -grown PCSO, Robert Powell. We “He was soaking wet and I and a literally couldn't be more proud of passing runner asked if he was ok and Rob. Well done mate! he said modestly that he was and they would make their way back to their car “I saw this young couple near Apperley which I think was parked at Rodley. Bridge as I was walking along and they had double-backed obviously looking for “I told him he was a brave young man their dog and then they started running and his companion that she should be as I came upon them they had found proud of him. their dog stuck fast in the icy water with its head just above the thick ice at the “They then ran back to their car - I don't far bank.