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newsJanuary 2018 making a difference locally

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Officers from Outer West road safety; drink and drug driving, pupils around road safety. Children Neighbourhood Policing Team are speeding, using a mobile phone, not are to be encouraged to engage with working with children in the wearing a seatbelt, appropriate child officers when they are on the beat to Farnley and Wortley Areas of seats and wearing a helmet when collect the rest of the set. Leeds to remind them about the riding a bike. Officers on patrol in the area will importance of road safety. have a selection of the badges to Children are encouraged to collect give out for the next few weeks Pop badges have been produced to the full set of 6 badges from their following the presentations. appeal to primary aged children to neighbourhood officers whilst on the encourage them to consider theirs beat. The initiative has already been and their family and friends safety successfully run in the when traveling on the roads of West Ward Officers and Police Community Policing area. Funding for the . Support Officers will be attending badges was secured through the Primary Schools in the Farnley and district’s partnership funding officer Six badge designs have been Wortley area and giving out the first from the Safer Communities Fund. created, each focusing on an area of badges whilst engaging with the

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To access the chat, or find out more, please visit our website at: https:// www.westyorkshire.police.uk/ contact-us

Visit us online at www.westyorkshire.police.uk Winter Friends spreads warmth

Local Officers have teamed up with ● Those suffering from a long term ● Minimising social isolation to help spread medical condition key messages which will help keep ● Children 2 or 3 years old Here in Leeds, WYP have identified the most vulnerable within our key operational staff and volunteers communities safe this winter. ● Pregnant to become advocates of the Winter Friends scheme. They have ● Or a carer Did you know that, in Leeds, there attended a workshop with experts are on average 350 excess winter Just a few simple interventions may from Public Health and have access deaths (December – March) each save someone’s life this Winter: to key resources to support this year suggesting that much more can campaign. be done to support those most at ● Flu vaccinations risk If you are worried about someone ● Review of medicines this Winter or you yourself feel that We know that anyone can be at risk ● Heating review you need some support or advice, of cold weather but we all are please get in touch with the reminded that those who are at ● Ensuring regular hot meals & Neighbourhood Coordinator for your greatest risk are: drinks area of Leeds or email the Crime

● Safeguarding against falls & Reduction Team ● Aged 65 and over promoting personal safety on [email protected] olice.uk

Sharon Wade West Leeds [email protected] Debby Thornes South Leeds [email protected] Sarah Halloran East Leeds [email protected]

A winter checklist, detailing the agencies working with us on the campaign and their contact numbers is available via our advocates, so please get in touch without delay. You could be saving someone’s life this Winter!

Visit us online at www.westyorkshire.police.uk Illegal tobacco seized in Leeds

Officers in Inner West Leeds and shop in the Town Street area of owners of the shop are now being Trading Standards Bramley. Over £10,000 worth of prosecuted by Trading Standards. executed a warrant at an off-licence illegal tobacco was seized. The

PC Jamie Wilkinson paid an enjoyable visit to in January. There were some great questions (and tricky ones too) with lots of prospective police officers of the future. The kids particularly enjoyed exploring the police van.

Visit us online at www.westyorkshire.police.uk Keeping your van and tools safe

Vans are often targeted by thieves for their tools. Here  Use an approved steering lock or gear clamps, and are a few simple tips to help secure your van and its remember to set your immobiliser and alarm if you contents: have one.  Fit a dual band tracking device that works on VHF/  It might sound obvious, but make sure you lock the UHF and GPS to ensure that one tracking system is doors and shut the windows whenever you leave still functioning if criminals use GPS blocking your van unattended. techniques to avoid detection. Purchase devices to  Never leave any valuables visible - keep ALL ‘Thatcham’ and ‘SBD’ approval to combat this type possessions out of sight. Even if you know that of vehicle theft, as vehicles equipped with a tracking there is nothing valuable in your jacket pocket or file device are often promptly recovered. left on the seat, a thief may try their luck.  Use a “Pedal Box Guard” to encase the pedals  Remove tools from your van when left over night when the vehicle is not in use.  If removal of tools is not possible, fit a tool safe and  Fit an on-board diagnostic (OBD) safe device, a ensure it is fully secured with good quality locks. secure lockable device that fits over the vehicle’s  Consider parking your van close to a hedge or wall OBD port, inside the cabin, to prevent additional in order to restrict access for anyone trying to get keys being coded. inside.  Engrave or mark tools and their boxes with your We recommend products that are Sold Secure, or Secured By Design. postcode and house number.  Fit additional locks external locks to van doors.

Visit us online at www.westyorkshire.police.uk Police Cadets help out

As part of a larger national scheme, Volunteer Police Cadets from the West Leeds area have been working with us and helping out in the community.

They have been working towards their bronze Duke of Edinburgh award and learning about neighbourhood policing by taking part in a day of action.

Some spent the morning taking part in a community tidy-up in Newlay, whilst others spent the afternoon assisting local officers with Speedwatch checks on Low Lane and Scotland Lane.

For more information about the cadets and what they do, please visit http://vpc.police.uk

Visit us online at www.westyorkshire.police.uk Contact Opportunities Mondays ■ Brownlee Stone Centre, Town ■ , Holt Road, , Street, Horsforth, Leeds, LS18 5BL. LS16 7RY. 3pm - 4pm. ■ New Wortley Community Centre, 6pm - 7pm Road. 9.30am - 10.30am. ■ Bramley Community Hub (Library, Hough Lane, LS13 3ND). ■ Courtyard Café, Town Street, 12pm - 1pm. Horsforth, LS18 4GN. 11am -12pm. Fridays ■ Yeadon Library & One Stop ■ , 89 Road, Centre, Town Hall Square, LS19 Guiseley, LS20 8PS. 5pm - 6pm. 7PP. 2pm - 3pm ■ Otley Office, Otley Core Resource Centre, Unit 11, Orchard Gate, Otley, LS21 3NX. Wednesdays 2pm - 3pm. ■ Morrisons, High Street, Yeadon, LS19 7YU. 12pm - 1pm. Saturdays ■ Post Office, 9 - 11 Town ■ Morrisons, 69 Town Street, Street, LS12 1UG. 11am - 12pm. Horsforth, LS18 5BP. 10am - 11am. ■ Otley Town Council Office, Otley ■ 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 Safer Internet Day will take place Globally, Safer Internet Day is teachers, social workers, law on 6th February 2018 with the celebrated in over a hundred enforcement, companies, theme: Create, Connect and Share countries, coordinated by the joint policymakers, and wider, to join Respect. A Better internet starts Insafe/INHOPE network, with the together in helping to create a better with you. support of the European internet. Get Involved to play your Commission, and national Safer part! Coordinated by the UK Safer Internet Centres across Europe. Internet Centre, the annual event Last year we collectively reached sees hundreds of organisations get The day offers the opportunity to 42% of UK children - with your help involved to help promote the safe, highlight positive uses of technology we can make SID2018 even bigger! responsible and positive use of and to explore the role we all play in digital technology for children and helping to create a better and safer More information can be found young people. online community. It calls upon here: www.saferinternetday.org.uk young people, parents, carers,

Visit us online at www.westyorkshire.police.uk Police road safety campaign

A hard hitting project to make roads dreadful impact of collisions and even “The feedback from the students safer has motored by a major showed them a body bag of the kind themselves, their teachers, their parents milestone after reaching more than which victims of fatal incidents would be and our partners has been excellent and 10,000 teenagers. put in at scenes. I want to thank the schools and colleges involved for all their support. ’s One Life Lost The presentations have been widely campaign has been hailed for its impact praised by head teachers, school staff, Inspector Farrar said he had been after roads policing officers visited more parents and the students themselves. heartened to see that the numbers of than 50 schools and colleges to make Student feedback confirms the people killed on the roads had fallen them aware of the devastating presentations have a major positive during the campaigns run in 2016, consequences of dangerous driving. impact on their attitudes towards driving despite an increase in traffic levels. and road safety, some of whom have Figures show that during the first full been reduced to tears after hearing the He added: “As roads policing officers we year of the campaigns launch in 2016 testimony of the mum of a young man still see the devastating effects of fatal the number of overall causalities on the killed in a crash. and serious collisions first hand all too roads dropped by six per cent compared often, I can’t stress enough how much it to the year before. Inspector Farrar, who devised the means to us personally to do what we campaign, said: “Since the creation and can to prevent these incidents taking There were also 34 fewer people killed launch of the One Life Lost post-16 place and sparing more families the pain or seriously injured on the region’s roads school road safety campaign back in of losing a loved one in this way. during the same period. 2015, it has gone from strength to strength. I never imagined it would be “We are now taking repeated bookings the success it has become and I thank from the post-16 educational The campaign has seen Inspector my colleagues Cameron, Nigel and James Farrar, Sergeant Cameron establishments we have already visited Steve for the support they have shown and are re-attending annually in order to Buchan, PC Nigel Fawcett-Jones and from day one and throughout. PC Steve Oliver rearrange shifts and catch each new year group as they give up their own time to speak with post come through. 16s to drive home the dangers of the “We can now say that there are now #fatal4 – drink/drugs, speeding, mobile 10,000 young adults within West “The young people we speak with are phone use and not wearing a seatbelt. Yorkshire whose attitudes to road safety the ones who can make a difference by have been positively influenced and will making our roads safer now and in the no doubt contribute to improving road As part of the presentations officers future and they are the ambassadors for safety across the region and that is what we are trying to achieve.” have talked students through the fantastic.

Visit us online at www.westyorkshire.police.uk Cracking down on cannabis

Officers executed a search warrant at a property on Iveson Drive under Section 23 of the Misuse of Drugs Act.

Intelligence gathered by officers allowed us to locate, seize and destroy a cannabis grow that was just weeks away from being harvested.

If you have any information about drug dealing / production in your area then please contact us by calling 101 or use the ‘live chat’ or contact form facilities at www.westyorkshire.police.uk/ contactus. You can also contact Crimestoppers (anonymously).

Anyone can report domestic abuse invitations, or even challenge By more people feeling confident and help change the lives of people someone on a visible marks such as and empowered to report their around them. bruises or scars. suspicions, more victims can be offered the support they need to It is often the case, that once the West Yorkshire Police encourages make decisions about their future. circumstances of domestic abuse these people to report these often have been revealed, there were hidden offences, and to seek help If you have been a victim, or many people close to the victim, or from the police and agencies to witnessed domestic abuse or have who saw them regularly, who had protect the people they know and suspicions that someone you know realised something wasn’t right. care about. The sooner the abuse is could be being abused and do not They may have suspected abuse but reported, the sooner the victim can wish to speak to the police, there are did not challenge an excuse, a receive the help and support they many organisations, listed below bruise or behaviour that, once they need. who can offer support and advice. knew the truth was actually hiding the extent of the abuse they were It is not only the victim or a family Anyone can report domestic abuse suffering. member who can make a report. by calling 101 and asking to speak to Anyone can raise their concerns your local Safeguarding Unit. There are many people that the anonymously and in confidence with victims of abuse come in to regular agencies including the police, if they If a crime is ongoing, and there is a contact with each and every day. think that someone is being abused threat to life always call 999. These people may notice a change in any way. Speaking out could in behaviour, unusual actions or make a massive change to the lives For more information about domestic responses to questions and of the victim and those around them. abuse please click here

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