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Leeds West & North West Neighbourhood Policing Team newsApril 2018 making a difference locally Visit us online at www.westyorkshire.police.uk Your local PCSO was happy to pop along to a local fundraiser recently - and even met a fur-mous celebrity! Here is PCSO Day meeting Calverley's own local celebrity cat Willis Priest. Our new fluffy friend raised over £100 for the British Red Cross at the Calverley Spring Clean Garage Sale. The event was organised by Calverley Village Guide Association and local businesses. The day was a success, with families joining in to buy new and pre-loved items, enjoy some tasty food and indulge in some crafts. Well done, everyone and thanks for having us! Taking time to tackle vehicle crime Local NPT officers, together with Leeds City Council ‘s licensing department and the Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency, conducted an operation targeting unlicensed and unlawful scrap metal dealers in the Adel and Wharfedale areas. Several vehicles were stopped and checks were carried out. Advisory notices were issued and one driver was reported for summons 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 Cadets help car crime crackdown Leeds West Cadets have been We walked around the car park in about keeping vehicles secure and supporting us recently in a bid to uniforms, identifying vehicles which were property out of sight. tackle vehicle crime. insecure and those which had goods on display. The registration numbers have Many members of the public were We went to Owlcotes Shopping Centre been taken and letters will now be sent interested in what the Cadets were recently to hold a crime reduction event, to owners of the vehicles which were doing and we have been able to give supported by Crime Reduction Officers found to be insecure and could have advice to those who requested it. and a Safer Schools Police Constable. been victims of car crime, advising them Visit us online at www.westyorkshire.police.uk Alert: HMRC and iTunes gift card scam provided, they are told that there is a How to protect yourself: Action Fraud is warning people of a warrant out in their name and if they new trend that has hit the UK where don’t pay, the police will arrest them. ● HMRC will never use texts to tell fraudsters contact victims claiming to you about a tax rebate or penalty or ever be from HM Revenue & Customs Spoofed calls: Fraudsters are cold ask for payment in this way. 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Fraud on 0300 123 2040 or use One victim had reported purchasing over our online fraud reporting tool. Fraudsters are now moving onto iTunes 15 iTunes gift card vouchers from Argos gift cards to collect money from victims at £100 pounds each and handing them Sign up for free to Action Fraud because they can be easily redeemed over to fraudsters on the phone after Alert to receive direct, verified, and easily sold on. The scammers don’t receiving an automated voice message. accurate information about scams need the physical card to redeem the Another victim handed gift card voucher and fraud in your area by email, value and instead get victims to read out codes worth £15,000 after receiving a recorded voice and text message. the serial code on the back over the cold call. phone. This new trend that has only surfaced in Fraudsters are contacting victims in the UK over the past month has been three ways: used by scammers in the USA who have been posing as police, attorneys, debt Voicemails: Fraudsters are leaving collectors and Internal Revenue Service victims automated voicemails saying (IRS) agents. that they owe HMRC unpaid taxes. When victims call back on the number Visit us online at www.westyorkshire.police.uk Caught! Officers tackle bike crime Officers from the Leeds District Off-road The Off-road Bike Team were able to These stolen motorcycles were Bike Team were recently deployed with stop and seize this motorbike on Iveson recovered by our off-road bikers the speed indicating device over at Drive recently. The offending rider had recently. various locations across Leeds. A been causing a nuisance in the area and number of motorcyclists and car drivers was uninsured. The rider did not have a were positively dealt with. licence. 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. 11am - 12pm. ■ 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.