South Leeds Neighbourhood Policing Team newsNovember 2017 making a difference locally Police cadets & officers team up for a clean up! Visit us online at www.westyorkshire.police.uk Police Cadets make a difference! These are the Leeds South Volunteer Isle, and was organised by Councillor well together. The cadet leaders were Police Cadets, undertaking part of Kim Groves. very impressed with their work too! their two-year Duke of Edinburgh Award. This involved painting the barrier around Cadet Leaders present - Staff Officer the land, picking up the discarded litter Martin Stubbs, Staff Officer Ben Straker, As part of their DofE course they go out and planting bulbs around the trees and Staff officer Fiona Campbell, Staff into the community each month and the border. Officer George Clay, Staff Officer complete some voluntary work. The Declan Heaton. recent engagement day was on a part of All of the kids, who are aged between open land just off Old Run Road, Belle 13 - 15 years of age, all worked really Visit us online at www.westyorkshire.police.uk Holbeck Community Clean up Basis Yorkshire, along with West Yorkshire Police and Leeds City Council, are leading a community clean up in Holbeck on Thursday 7th December from 10am - 2pm. If you would like to help please contact us by emailing [email protected] or just turn up at St Matthew’s Community Centre on the day, where we will be based. All volunteers are greatly appreciated for as little or as much time as you can spare. Hot drinks and bacon sandwiches will also be available so feel free to pop in for a chat. Contact the office on: 0113 2430036 Visit us online at www.westyorkshire.police.uk Morley’s dementia awareness day A local PCSO has been working in the community with partner organisations, companies and Herbert Protocol charities to raise awareness of dementia and how people can get “I have created a Herbert Protocol support. pack which contains a Herbert Protocol, a guide to filling it in, a On Wednesday 8th November at pen, groups/cafes leaflet & some Windsor Court in Morley, PCSO Michelle handy emergency contact cards, If Owens, Peter Smith from Dementia you know someone who cares for or Friendly Rothwell and other agencies has dementia & you feel they would came together to promote their services benefit from a pack please contact and offer advice to the public in an me.” ongoing effort to make Morley a more Dementia Friendly place to live, work PCSO Michelle Owens and visit. Michelle was on hand to provide information in regards to the Herbert Protocol which is a scheme used by West Yorkshire Police. The form is available to carers and family members of those living with dementia and allows useful information to be collected in the event of a vulnerable person going missing. To find out more, or for a pack, tweet Michelle @WYP_MOwens or email [email protected] #ClickB4UCall - How to contact us You can ‘chat’ live online to our Customer Contact Centre using ‘101 Live Chat’. To access the chat, or find out more, please visit our website at: www.westyorkshire.police.uk/contact-us Visit us online at www.westyorkshire.police.uk We are Dementia Friendly! Did you know… to put systems in place to allow for early “As a police force we are committed to intervention when loved ones go ensuring that those with dementia who missing. come into contact with the police are for every 100 people aged 65 and supported and have their specific needs over, 7 have dementia As part of the commitment, Dementia taken into consideration, whether that be this figure rises to 1 in 4 aged 85 Community Champions are being as a victim, witness, offender or missing and over introduced within districts and person. 65-80% of people with dementia departments who will act as dedicated live in their own home points of contacts and ensure that the “It is important that our officers and staff specific needs of people with dementia are able to recognise the signs and The term “dementia” is used to describe are taken into account in all symptoms of dementia both to a group of illnesses which causes a investigations. A resource library is also appropriately deal with the immediate progressive decline in the ability to being compiled to assist staff and situation but also to refer the person on remember, to learn, to think and to officers with best practice in dealing with to other services as required.” reason… those with dementia. Dementia Friendly’ stickers are being West Yorkshire Police is raising Sergeant Vanessa Rolfe, of the Force put on all marked West Yorkshire Police awareness among its staff and officers Performance Improvement Unit, said: vehicles to highlight the Force’s of the condition, and has joined the commitment and to further raise Dementia Action Alliance as part of a “Dementia is a condition which has no awareness with Force employees and commitment by the Force to improve the barriers, it affects men and women and the general public. services provided to those with people of all backgrounds. What some dementia. people may also not realise is that while For further information and links, please it mainly affects older people, it can also visit https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/ The Force has signed up to the Herbert affect younger people. Protocol to enable family and friends dementia Brewing up some support at Tea Cosy Memory Café The café is held on the first Saturday of every month at Rothwell Parish Centre from 9.30am - 12.30pm and is open to all those in need of support, but specifically those affected by dementia. You can find out more about our work at www.westyorkshire.police.uk/ dementia Visit us online at www.westyorkshire.police.uk Sending cyber criminals the right message in Leeds this Christmas Father Christmas is expected to be belief that it only happens to banks or what their level of experience or busy this Christmas delivering multinational companies. knowledge could come along and ask thousands of internet enabled our team for advice. devices such as laptops, mobile “Nothing, however, could be further from phones and tablets to people across the truth. Cybercrime takes many forms “The event was free of charge and we the Yorkshire and the Humber region. such as harassment, theft, blackmail, had some Virtual Reality headsets, fraud, hate crime and hacking, as a user which people could use to get an insight But there are plenty of Bad Santas out of a digital networked device you are at to the workings of the police service. there, waiting for the chance to use risk of becoming a victim of cybercrime. those special Christmas treats to “The event was very successful, and we commit cyber-crime. “But by carrying out some simple steps got to see a number of people and people can greatly reduce their chances talked to them about protecting their On so called ‘Cyber Monday’ members of being a victim of this type of crime. devices.” of the Yorkshire and the Humber Regional Cyber Crime Team were on “For example, understand how and why Steven Foster, General Manager at hand at the White Rose Shopping it is important to change your privacy White Rose Shopping Centre, said: Centre in Leeds to offer some simple settings on social media. “We’re thankful to the Regional Cyber and straight-forward advice to protect Crime Unit for their time and expertise their expensive gadgets. “Consider your choice of passwords and showing us and our visitors how to how frequently you change them, protect themselves online. Anyone can Detective Inspector Tim Ingle leads the always be cautious when opening fall victim to cybercrime and theft, and Unit. He said: received links and attachments. it’s important to share this straightforward advice from a “Many people will have heard about trustworthy source. We look forward to “That is why we hosted the event and working with the Regional Cyber Crime cyber-crime but might not know exactly have others planned. Anyone, no matter what it means or hold the mistaken Unit again in the future.” Visit us online at www.westyorkshire.police.uk Closure order tackles bad behaviour Unauthorised visitors have been It means that anyone who is not a Councillor Debra Coupar, Leeds City banned from a Leeds tower block as resident or invited guest is banned from Council’s executive member with part of work by the police and council entering the premises and can face responsibility for Safer Leeds said: “The to tackle drug use and anti-social arrest and prosecution. actions of these individuals who are not behaviour. tenants at this particular tower block Any breach of the order is a criminal were completely unacceptable and we Officers from Operation Leodis – a team offence punishable with up to six months were determined that measures be put funded by Leeds City Council to tackle in prison. in place to stop this type of behaviour mainly housing-related anti-social occurring immediately. Whilst applying behaviour – have secured a partial for a partial closure order through the Chief Inspector Chris Matthews, who courts is certainly not an option that we closure order for Meynell Heights, heads neighbourhood policing in the City Meynell Approach, Holbeck. consider with partners lightly, the and South Leeds, said: “Residents have wellbeing of our tenants always comes been understandably appalled and first. Residents’ lives have been blighted by disgusted by the nature of the anti-social long-running issues with drug use and behaviour they have faced around their anti-social behaviour.