The Neighbourhood Helpline, 0300 1000 101 is a 24 hour service which can be used to report a range of issues to the City Council. For more information visit the Neighbourhood Helpline. Officers emphasised once again that they can only deal with problems that they are aware of and encourage residents to use this service.
Over the last year, as well as giving advice on how to protect ourselves and our property, PC Kevin Hood has been giving us updates on crime statistics across the area and we have looked at the figures for the year to see if there are any patterns and some of this information was also presented at the meeting.
Overall, the average number of incidents each month across most categories of crime are in single figures.
By far the biggest problem is anti social behaviour. The area with the highest figures includes the hospital reflecting the number of times the police are called, often to deal with people who are drunk in A&E for example.
In total there were nearly 800 incidents of anti social behaviour and perhaps unsurprisingly the summer months were a bigger problem than the colder winter months.
Of the other types of crime, the category of 'theft other' had a relatively high number of incidents, a total of 158 over the year. This category includes metal theft, which is a big problem nationwide, and bike theft for example.
Reassuringly, it looks like there has been a fall in the number of such thefts in recent months.
The biggest problem after anti social behaviour however, is with vehicle crime which includes damage to a motor vehicle, theft from a motor vehicle and theft of a motor vehicle. As was reported in the Echo recently, this is a problem across the city and residents can easily reduce the chances of being a victim, simply by not leaving anything on show in their car.
Over the last year, as well as giving advice on how to protect ourselves and our property, PC Kevin Hood has been giving us updates on crime statistics across the area and we have looked at the figures for the year to see if there are any patterns and some of this information was also presented at the meeting.
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By far the biggest problem is anti social behaviour. The area with the highest figures includes the hospital reflecting the number of times the police are called, often to deal with people who are drunk in A&E for example.
In total there were nearly 800 incidents of anti social behaviour and perhaps unsurprisingly the summer months were a bigger problem than the colder winter months.
Of the other types of crime, the category of 'theft other' had a relatively high number of incidents, a total of 158 over the year. This category includes metal theft, which is a big problem nationwide, and bike theft for example.
The biggest problem after anti social behaviour however, is with vehicle crime which includes damage to a motor vehicle, theft from a motor vehicle and theft of a motor vehicle. As was reported in the Echo recently, this is a problem across the city and residents can easily reduce the chances of being a victim, simply by not leaving anything on show in their car.
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