A Division

Meet the A Division commander

Chief Superintendent David Hilditch

Crime levels in our area have been falling for some years now. For the year ended 31st March 2009 numbers of reported crimes fell by a further 12.9% on top of the reductions of previous years. This is good news but we need to continue to bear down on crime levels – there is no ‘acceptable’ level of crime.

Throughout 2009/10 we will be working with our partners in the Safer Communities Partnership and the North East Lincolnshire Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) to continue to reduce acquisitive crimes and crimes of violence. Community safety is a key part of people’s quality of life and contributes to the overall prosperity of the area.

Incidents of anti-social behaviour have also fallen during 2008/09 and this is another important part of people’s perception of their community. Our neighbourhood policing style has certainly contributed to this, as has the increasing number of successful diversionary projects to help keep people ‘out of trouble’.

Each part of the division is covered by a local Neighbourhood Policing Team. We have recently re-organised the boundaries of these teams to reflect the boundaries agreed within the LSP to more effectively work together with partners. We are committed to supporting the development of Neighbourhood Management in which professional agencies solve problems together with local residents. This year should see good progress in this area.

The new Policing Pledge is very important to us (click the link to find out more). This is a ‘solemn promise’ to try to achieve high standards of service as much of the time as possible and we will be continually reviewing the way we do things to provide the best service we can as efficiently as we can.