February 20, 2013 11.43 am
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County Council and PCC join forces to tackle community safety
New partnership: Lincolnshire County Council and the Lincolnshire Police and Crime Commissioner will work together to tackle a range of community safety issues.
Lincolnshire County Council Leader Martin Hill (centre, left) and Police and Crime Commissioner Alan Hardwick (centre, right) with their cooperation pledge, outside Lincoln Prison, alongside PC Jason Smeaton (far left) and PCSO Stephanie Clare (far right).
Lincolnshire County Council and the Lincolnshire Police and Crime Commissioner will work together to tackle a range of community safety issues.
The County Council and PCC Alan Hardwick have agreed to work more closely to tackle a range of priority areas, including anti-social behaviour, domestic violence and re-offending.
They also plan to provide better support to the victims of crime, and will be helping HMP Lincoln to make further improvements and play a greater role in community safety.
Councillor Martin Hill, Leader of Lincolnshire County Council, said: “We already work closely with the police, providing £1.5 million each year to help fund the county’s PCSOs. But we feel more can be done. Over the next couple of years, we’ll be funding a number of projects that will have a direct impact on these priority areas.
“For example, we’ll be extending a pilot scheme that supports repeat victims of anti-social behaviour and those that are most vulnerable. We’ll also be launching a new project that will help perpetrators of domestic violence change their ways. We believe these steps will make a real difference to the lives of our residents.”
Alan Hardwick, Lincolnshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner, added: “The County Council and I both aim to protect and improve the lifestyles enjoyed by local residents. We have a number of common goals, and by working together we can achieve these more effectively.
“This agreement will help me meet my goals of more visible policing, a reduction in crime and better support for the victims of crime. And by taking a partnership approach, we can also ensure that we are both making the best use of resources, giving local taxpayers even better value for money.”
Details of the specific activities that will be supported by Lincolnshire County Council and the Police and Crime Commissioner will be released in the coming weeks.
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A 38-year-old man from a North Lincolnshire village charged with murder will face an eight-day trial later this year.
Emergency services were called at 4.23am on Saturday, July 2 to reports that a man was seriously injured on South Parade in central Doncaster.
The 28-year-old victim was taken to hospital but was sadly pronounced dead a short time later.
A post-mortem examination found that he died of injuries to his head, chest and abdomen.
Formal identification of the victim is yet to take place, South Yorkshire Police said earlier this week.
Steven Ling, 38, of Park Drain, Westwoodside in North Lincolnshire, has been charged with murder and was remanded in custody to appear at Doncaster Magistrates Court on Monday, July 4.
Ling later appeared at Sheffield Crown Court on Tuesday, July 5 for a plea and trial preparation hearing.
No pleas were entered during the hearing, but an eight-day trial was set for November 28, 2022. Ling has now been remanded into custody until the next hearing.
The Lincolnite went on a ride-along with a Lincolnshire Police officer from the force’s Roads Policing Unit (RPU), which aims to disrupt criminals’ use of the roads and reduce the number of serious and fatal accidents.
The team will support the county response including local policing, neighbourhood policing and criminal investigation too.
Operations first began in Grantham in January this year and started in Louth earlier this week with a sergeant and nine PCs based in both locations.
The Lincolnite went out on a ride-along with PC Rich Precious from Lincolnshire Police’s Roads Policing Unit. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
PC Rich Precious has been a police officer for 22 years after joining the force in 2000 and he recently rejoined the Roads Policing Unit, working out of Louth.
PC Precious, who also previously worked as a family liaison officer for road deaths for 16 years, took The Lincolnite out in his police car to the A1 up to Colsteworth and then back to Grantham. He described that particular area as “one of the main arterial routes that goes through Lincolnshire”.
PC Rich Precious driving down the A1 up to Colsterworth. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Speaking about the new Roads Policing Unit, he said: “It’s intelligence led policing, it’s targeted policing in areas that have been underrepresented in terms of police presence, on the roads certainly, over a number of years.
“We’re hoping that the development of this unit will help address that balance, and look towards using the ANPR system to prevent criminals’ use of the road, and to identify key areas or routes where there’s a high percentage of people killed or seriously injured on the road, what we commonly refer to as KSI.
PC Precious is helping to keep the roads safer in Lincolnshire. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
When asked if he thinks the new team will help reduce the number of serious and fatal accidents in the county, he added: “That’s what the the unit designed for. Sadly, in Lincolnshire our road network does seem to incur a number of those KSI accidents year on year, and we need to reduce that.
“I’ve worked additionally in my roles as a family liaison officer on road death for 16 years, so I’ve seen first hand the impact that road death has on families and victims families.
“I know it’s important that we try and reduce those because, it’s very sad to see how a fatal road traffic collision can affect a family and the victims of that family.”
Marc Gee, Inspector for Lincolnshire Police’s Roads Policing Unit. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Marc Gee, Inspector for the Roads Policing Unit, told The Lincolnite: “Every day there will be officers on duty from both teams and they’ll cover the whole county or the county’s roads.
“Eventually, we’ll have nine police cars and we’ve got six motorbikes. We’ll be utilising them with as many officers as we can every day basically to make our roads safer and enforce against the criminals who feel like it’s okay to come into the county and use our road for criminal purposes.”
Lincolnshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Marc Jones at the launch of the force’s Roads Policing Unit. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
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