Central Area Committee 7 July 2016 Period 24th February to 31st May 2016 and wards plus Manor West Neighbourhood Inspector James Atherton

Crime Patterns and Trends Anti Social Behaviour There have been no major issues reported. Acquisitive Crime. There have been 20 residential Burglaries in this period with none in the Hightown area. There was a significant arrest on 2nd March 2016 of two males aged 18 and 17 years from Liverpool in connection with a house Burglary that had occurred that day in Woodland Road, . A car taken during the offence was recovered along with stolen property. Both males have been charged, one has pleaded guilty and the case is proceeding. We continue to actively encourage crime prevention. Reduce the risk of being a victim, lock it or lose it. Record your valuables; better still register them for free on immobilise.com by simply following the links from the Police website. We have a very active Homewatch Scheme and I would encourage people to get involved. You can call 0151-777-4145 and leave a message for Mr Roger Sloman and he will get in touch with you. Alternatively speak to any member of the Dedicated Neighbourhood Team. There is lots of great crime prevention advice available via the Police website. You can always come to our advertised surgeries. We are hoping to put on a few special events also. Robbery – One offence where a male has had his bicycle taken by other youths. Significant Court results In recent weeks, two significant sentences following convictions for two Formby residents have been widely reported on in the local media. Both having been convicted of offences involving weapons in the Formby area. Paul Range 6 years. Eric Woodward 5 years. I am hoping to be able to announce details of another significant court result in the near future but reporting restrictions are in place. Neighbourhood Priorities Protecting vulnerable people be they young or not so young remains our key priority Operation Colme Ongoing reassurance and disruption plan in relation to Burglary dwelling offences. This has included additional resources from the neighbourhood disruption team and matrix Roads Policing units. Every Burglary victim receives a follow up reassurance visit and we conduct extensive house to house in the immediate vicinity. As a result of funding from the ward councillors we have also been issuing free smart water kits where appropriate Operation Dragonfly Crime prevention and property registration initiative. We have now completed property registration sessions at Formby and Range High schools and ran a special event at Formby Pool where we were offering free property registration of phones and Bikes. We were also fitting immobitags for free funded kindly by the ward councillors. We have registered over 300 items of property this year alone. We are hoping to do another special event in the Summer School holidays. We remind people to lock their bikes even for a quick visit into shops. Use the best lock you can afford ideally a gold standard one. Lock it in a bright visible area ideally with CCTV and to a secure object. A plastic drainpipe for an example can be easily snapped. We work in close partnership with British Transport Police in tackling this type of crime and have run joint Bike registration sessions. Operation School Gate Parking around schools is a perennial problem at certain locations across Sefton. We work with the local schools and hopefully parents in keeping these areas as safe as possible. Operation Brookdale This annual operation to tackle the menace of Anti-social use of off road vehicles was launched. Twitter / Social Media Twitter - We now have 716 followers. We use this to let the community know of a small part of our daily operational duties. This is not to be used to contact us to report incidents as we have dedicated call handlers 24/7. Mersey Now The community messaging system has now gone live. We would encourage everyone to sign up for it. You can get updates for where you or your family live and work. Sefton Crime Alert This is a collaboration between Merseyside Police and Home watch. Margaret Jepson is the Police volunteer co-ordinator who sends out occasional and very informative e mails about current crime patterns and emerging trends especially in relation to fraud. To receive these you will need to sign up. Simply send an e mail to [email protected] with your contact details. Newsletter Our spring newsletter is free to download from the Merseyside Police website. Beachsafe 2016 We are continuing to work in our established partnership approach to promote safety and prevent crime and ASB in the coastal areas. We often use our specialist vehicles i.e. Land Rover and Quadbikes for patrolling purposes. This is done with the permission of National Trust, Natural England and ’s coast and countryside department. Other partners include, British transport Police, HM Coastguard, Merseyfire and Rescue Service, RNLI, Sefton council and its ward councillors and parish councils The 2016 Beachsafe media launch was on 19th May 2016 just prior to the bank holiday and half term. Extra staffing was in place over this period. Visitor numbers to the area were very high due to the school holidays and a sustained period of good weather. Reported crime was very low. A lot of time and resource was used on Sunday 6th June looking for a missing child which was reported upon in local media. Thankfully he had simply wandered off and was found safe and well. There will continue to be weather dependant additional patrolling in the forthcoming weekends and school holidays. Meet the Team - 2016 Our crime prevention surgeries are detailed below. It is a chance to come and say hello, ask for advice on crime prevention or talk about crime generally. Lady Green Nurseries. Lady Green lane, –9-11 am Friday 1st July, 5th August and 2nd September Tesco Formby Bypass (Inside Costa Coffee) 1-3pm Friday 8th July, 12th August, 9th Sept Waitrose, Three Tuns lane, Formby 1-3pm Friday 15th July, 19th August, 16th September Our next quarterly Have You Say meeting is scheduled for Thursday 23rd June 2016, 7-8pm at Formby Pool. If you are unable to attend you can always fill in the form on the Police website. This is an opportunity to discuss what we should be focussing on after dealing with all the other emergencies and priorities in the forthcoming quarter. We are hoping to do some special events and details will be circulated in local media, on our website and also Twitter @MerpolFormby. Remember in an emergency dial 999, none emergency or speak with the dedicated staff 101. You can always pass information about crime anonymously to the Crime stoppers on 0800 555 111.