Welcome to Beverley Minster and Woodmansey
The dedicated Neighbourhood Policing Team is based at the Police Station in Beverley and forms part of the larger Beverley, Hornsea and Driffield Team.
The area is covered by Neighbourhood Police Officer(s) and Police Community Support Officer(s) as shown below. They are supported by dedicated Incident Response Staff and a number of Special Constables.
Find out what is happening in the your local Team area by selecting the appropriate link below.
Getting in touch with us
If you wish to raise any comments or concerns you can do so in a variety of ways such as:
• Attending local meetings:-
Police Surgery. An opportunity for you to meet privately with a member of the neighbourhood team to discuss any policing issue of concern. This is a drop-in event so you may have to wait a few minutes.
Police and Communities Together Meeting. This is a public meeting where the police and other public authority representatives will be present. Its main purpose is to determine what the local priorities for action over the next three moths will be. It gives members of the public an opportunity to raise their concerns and influence those decisions.
Street Briefing. The whole neighbourhood team will be briefed on current problems in the area and tasked to deal with them. The public can meet with the officers and be informed about how they can help with these issues.
• By email to the neighbourhood team - use the contact form on the right of the page.
• By telephone using the single non-emergency number 101.
• In person at any police station.
You can also notify us of any dissatisfaction with the service you have received by contacting our Professional Standards Branch. They can be contacted in a variety of ways details of these can be found by clicking here.
Beverley Minster and Woodmansey Team
Police Constable Chris Matthews (245)
PCSO Steve Cheung (7736)
PCSO Mike Fowler (7549)
PCSO Marc McClarron (7505)
Sergeant John White (1636)
Meetings & Events
No events currently available
Beverley Minster and Woodmansey News & Appeals
Beverley Minster & Woodmansey Update for May 2012
101 IS NOW THE NUMBER TO CALL WHEN YOU WANT TO CONTACT YOUR LOCAL POLICE – WHEN IT’S LESS URGENT THAN 999. ****
BEVERLEY MINSTER AND WOODMANSEY AUGUST UPDATE
From the 5th September, the neighbourhood Inspector will change for this cluster, with the new Inspector being John Thirkettle. Mark Coulthard is moving to take over at Hedon and Withernsea, and will retain Hornsea, so will have a whole Holderness Neighbourhood Team. Beverley Rural staff will remain linked to the Beverley Neighbourhood Team.
INCREASE IN VEHICLE CRIME
Over the last week or so, there has been an increase in vehicle crime within Beverley, notably around the Beckside area, but everywhere is vulnerable.
Priorities / action taken
Anti Social Behaviour – Mintfields Road, Beverley
Mintfields Road has once again raised its head as a current location for anti social behaviour. The area is predominantly made up of 3 storey Council Flats with a number of vulnerable residents who have learning difficulties or are elderly. Over the last couple of months there have been issues with young people causing criminal damage, noise, anti social behaviour and very minor fire damage. The most recent incident resulted in water based paint being squirted over the footpaths and also a resident’s motor car. Luckily there was no lasting damage and the victim managed to remove the paint. A number of young people that reside in or around the area have already been targeted and issued Anti Social Behaviour Contracts and one young female is being looked at for an Anti Social Behaviour Order.
We have recently increased our patrols in the area on foot to tackle the issues and target offenders. We have also liaised with other agencies including the East Riding of Yorkshire Council Housing Department and also the Fire Brigade. Residents identified for being responsible for the anti social behaviour run the risk of having their tenancy reviewed through breach of tenancy.
Anti Social Behaviour – Beverley Leisure Centre
We have also increased our patrols at the Beverley Leisure Centre after several reports of unruly behaviour. The Leisure Centre is a facility that is designed to provide all members of the local community with leisure and sporting facilities. It is a shame that a minority want to spoil it for the majority. Issues have included unruly behaviour towards the centre staff, bullying on the skate park, underage drinking and misuse of the facilities i.e. football etc on the bowling green. We will continue to monitor this, engage with the youths and liaise with the youth service and out reach workers.
Offenders Brought to Justice
No OBTJ currently available
Patrol times & areas
The Patrol Strategy for your Neighbourhood Policing Team is shown below where appropriate
Our strategy is that we use Police Community Support Officers, Regular and Special Constables to patrol set hot spots, such as the policing priorities given as well as those areas where crime and disorder occur. This can change rapidly and the details are taken from calls for service. So, please ring in and report any crime or disorder that you witness or that affects you.
Previous Priorities
May 2010
Deer Park Way/Lincoln Way – Anti social Behaviour
There were four logs during the month of April for youths gathering in the area where at times there were numbers of around 30 – 40. There was only one alcohol seizure during the month of April and it does appear that the group are simply meeting up to socialise. We have used the Police CCTV van on Lincoln Way to monitor the group and encouraged the youths to disperse into smaller less intimidating groups. We understand that the public’s perception of the group varies and that the youth’s issues are that there are no local facility’s available for their age group which is true. The Youth café at the Minster has worked wonders in attracting young people to its events where around 250 attend the monthly event. The team has spoken to Beverley Grammar School who are interested in trying to assist with this issue via voluntary groups identifying a building locally that could be potentially used or made available to the young people to use on a Friday night.
We have also asked that the council could put up some goal posts on the large grassed area of Deer Park Way which may encourage the youths to move away from the park and the houses nearby.
Samman Road shops – Anti social Behaviour
There were no specific incidents of anti social behaviour recorded on Samman Road during the month of April. However we are aware that youths have been climbing up onto the roof of the butcher’s shop recently recovering balls and messing about. It has been arranged that officers will be attending at both Swinemoor Junior School and St Johns School to educate the children re safety issues and anti social behaviour. Historically the youths tend to move away from the shelter of the shops as the weather picks up as they start to spend more time on the astro turf pitch and Mud Hills Park therefore the problems should cease for a while.
As a Neighbourhood Team we will continue to monitor and patrol all 3 areas increasing patrols in the evenings as the number of children out playing increase with the lighter nights.
April 2010
Anti Social Behaviour in Deer Park Way.
There were 4 calls to service during the month of March in relation to youths causing problems in the area of Lincoln Way Shops and Deer Park Way. Officers are aware that this is the preferred area at this time for kids to gather on a Friday/Saturday nights. However none of the shops are raising the same concerns as members of the public. The neighbourhood team are monitoring the youths on a regular basis and only small amounts of alcohol are being seized compared with 12 months ago. We appreciate that members of the public find approaching the shops difficult when youths are stood outside but we on the whole we are not finding the youths committing any criminal offences. Therefore our powers to remove them from the area become very limited. We are finding ourselves simply observing the groups and providing a presence in the area. We will deal positively with any of the youths that do commit offences in the area and try our best to reduce group sizes and accommodate the young people in areas which cause less of a nuisance to residents.
One male juvenile has been interviewed and admitted throwing a stone at an address on Deer Park Way on 16/02/2010 and will receive a Juvenile Final Warning for the offence and 3 other unrelated matters.
Samman Road shops – Anti social Behaviour
There was only one incident recorded for the whole of March regarding anti social behaviour at the shops so it would appear the hard line that we took last month has worked. We will continue to monitor the situation and encourage the young people to use the astro turf pitch on Queens Road and due to the change in the hour resulting in the lighter nights to again use Mud Hills park where the effects on the residents are minimal.
Letters were also sent to parents of individuals that we identified as being involved in the unruly behaviour around the shops.
We will continue to monitor this.