More Police for our Local Streets!

4.24.00pm GMT Sat 12th Jan 2008

ADRIAN COLLETT, Lib Dem Hampshire County Councillor is already doing something about it!

Adrian was appointed to Hampshire Police Authority (HPA) several years ago. HPA is a body which oversees the Police and sets their budgets. Members of the HPA recognised Adrian's financial skills and elected him Chair of Finance nearly 4 years ago.

Since then, under his stewardship, HPA has agreed three budgets in a row which all increase the number of Police and PCSOs on our streets. This is despite dreadful under-funding from Government!

PCSOs are Police Community Support Officers. Their job includes tackling anti-social behaviour like vandalism, grafitti and gangs hanging around intimidating people, etc.

Together all of these extra Police Officers and PCSOs are being used to create Safer Neighbourhood policing teams in every part of Hampshire. These are on top of, for example, the car-based teams (who respond to 999 emergencies), detectives, scenes of crime officers.