Yesterday’s Guardian carried a column written by an anonymous Metropolitan Police Officer, in it he says he no longer feels safe going to work, feels he and his colleagues are being stretched beyond their capabilities, he does not feel valued and he is seeing colleagues quit from exhaustion and frustration. While the piece in The […]
Sussex Police are encouraging moped and motorbike riders to protect their vehicles from would-be thieves. The campaign, advises riders to ‘lock, chain and cover your bike’, whenever they are parked. Moped and motorbike thefts saw a rise in Sussex during last summer and towards the end of 2018, with various operations being put into action […]
Sussex Police has hit back today at claims by its former head of CID that it will fail to meet its targets for recruitment of additional officers in the next two years Earlier this week former Chief Superintendent Kevin Moore poured cold water over claims by the county’s Police and Crime Commissioner Katy Bourne that […]
Tens of thousands of people across Sussex joined in the conversation about knife crime during a week-long national campaign. Operation Sceptre ran March 11th to 17th and officers were out and about across the county talking to people about knives. Schools, college and youth events were visited during the week as officers spoke to young people […]
Money raised by Sussex Police from the sale of lost and unclaimed property has gone to a good cause. This week Police Community Support Officer Daryl Holter handed over a cheque for £500 to the Hastings and Rother branch of The Samaritans. Founded by Chad Varah in 1953, The Samaritans is a registered charity that […]
‘Substantial’ recruitment of Police Community Support Officers and Police Officers is on the cards for Sussex in the wake of a government pledge to give police forces across the UK almost £1billion of additional finding. But a spokesman for the Labour party in Hastings told Hastings In Focus it’s was all ‘too little too late.’ […]
Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), Katy Bourne has secured £890,616 from the government’s Early Intervention Youth Fund to work with young people and attempt to steer them away from a life of crime. The money is also intended to help create what are described as ‘positive youth projects’ in local communities. However Councillor Godfrey […]
The police cannot be expected to pick up the pieces of a ‘broken mental health system’. That’s the headline finding of a report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) published earlier this week. Hastings In Focus understands that an increasing amount of local officer’s time is spent dealing with people […]
Hastings MP Amber Rudd was let down by her department’s civil servants in the run-up to her resignation as Home Secretary in April/ Ms Rudd had been under pressure over the ‘Windrush Scandal’ before quitting her cabinet position after ‘inadvertently’ telling MPs that her department did not use targets for deporting illegal immigrants. But an […]
