Written 08/03/06

The Police Neighbourhood Panel met late last month to look at Policing priorities in the immediate area. The Panel, selected on the night, consisted of District Councillors, a County Councillor, representatives of other agencies and a small number of members of the public.

From the "hot" topics presented by Police analysts as possibles they chose, as priorities (text from Chris Burns, Histon CBM Sgt.):

1. Waterbeach: Station Rd and Railway station. Since the meeting SCDC have been approached with a view to retiming their refuse collection. We are awaiting a reply. Highways have painted extra yellow lines in the vicinity and these have had an effect already. The Inspector, CBM and myself also made a site visit following which a meeting is taking place with the Highways to improve what is already there. A further meeting is being arranged with BTP to deal with crime aspects on their property.

2. Milton. Sycamores and Tesco area. We have been working well with Tescos in this area and will continue to do so. We are also raising an action plan in which we can work with other agencies including the Fire Brigade and Youth service to improve this area.

3. Drug and Alcohol issues in the Neighbourhood. This will need more thought as it is a very large remit which must involve a number of agencies. I have a meeting this week with the Inspector where we can push this forward.

You might recall that Billie Cunningham and myself took note on a flip chart when residents raised other concerns. By far, the main topic was speeding and traffic regulation. 5 out of 7 villages had this as their concern. We have now implemented a local action plan which has started this week to target specific areas which you mentioned whilst also hitting areas which we are aware of. These were other points which are being brought to the attention of the community officers.

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