Crime
and Policing
Issue 40 April 2004
Outcry over Yemeni
leader’s arrest
At an emergency meeting, over one hundred
residents and representatives of our city’s Black and diverse
communities showed their anger and disbelief at the arrest and
the alleged use of racist language towards Mr Abdul Shaif...
Walk
About with Community Wardens
Rob Smith spent a cold
morning on one of many routine patrols with our newly-appointed
Community Wardens...
Issue 39
March 2004
 Cutting
out anti-social behaviour
In an effort to cut anti-social behaviour
in Burngreave, a new Anti-Social Behaviour Team has now been recruited...
Working
with the community
Eight local people have now started
work as Community Wardens - identifying anything which could be
making life less than pleasant for people in the area and making
sure something gets done to sort it out...
Issue 38 February 2004
New
Plan for New Deal: So where’s
the money going?
As Year Three of New Deal comes to an
end, this is the first year they have achieved spending targets.
We bring you news of where the money went last
year and what's being planned for Year Four...
Subsidiary page:
crime
Issue 37 December 2003
Green
Watch Ranger Service
Greenwatch Rangers have been given the
task of supporting the work of the Youth Offending Team and Probation
Service in providing constructive reparation work in the open
green spaces, working closely with Youth Supervisors...
Issue 36 November 2003
Fireworks
Many residents are suffering again this
year from nuisance fireworks. They’re loud and dangerous
and seem to get bigger each year...
Issue 35 October 2003
Allotment Outrage!
In August 2003 we visited Joyce Silvera’s
allotment at Grimesthorpe, which was lush with edible delights.
But in recent months Joyce has suffered malicious attacks on her
vegetables and allotment buildings...
Issue 34 September 2003
Praise for young
peacemaker
Fleeing from Iraq, Ahmed Salim arrived
alone in London in 1999. Now, at the age of 20, he has won the
praise of local police for helping diffuse dangerous tensions,
helping to build bridges and develop support for the Kurdish community...
The Inspector meets
the Messenger
Rob Smith talks to Inspector Jon Ekwubiri...
Issue 33 August 2003
Michaela Hague
Sheffield coroner Chris Dorries recorded
a verdict of unlawful killing at the end of the inquest into the
death of Michaela Hague. Medical negligence played no role, he
said...
On
the beat!
BNDfC regeneration worker Farhat Javed
was one of the first Burngreave residents to accept an invitation
from the BNDfC Police Team to join them for a day on the beat...
Issue 32 June 2003
Police Letter
shocks youth and residents
Many residents in the Melrose/Burngreave
Street area were shocked recently to receive a letter from the
New Deal Police Squad, urging them to anonymously forward names
of young people who gather around those streets...
Drugs in Burngreave
The
subject of drugs means many things to Burngreave residents...
Drugs in Burngreave:
Police claim 'significant success'
Sergeant Adrian Fox, of the New Deal
police team, told the Messenger that their recent increased
presence on Ellesmere Green had reduced the drug dealing...
Drugs in Burngreave:
Cannabis a low priority says Superintendant
Superintendent Brennan feels cannabis
is harmful, but no more than alcohol and cigarettes. Despite large
drug seizures, £3.5 million worth in this district alone
last year, he says that society is still awash with drugs...
Drugs in Burngreave:
Possession
Rob Smith reports on his own recent
arrest for possession...
Drugs in Burngreave:
Cannabis facts
Issue 30 April 2003
Stolen garden
In the middle of the night on 22nd February
Pat Dyson had the majority of her garden ornaments stolen. She
would really like them back...
Drugs raid on community
activist
The home of Matloub Husayn Ali Khan
was raided by seven officers of the South Yorkshire Police drug
squad on 24th February at about 12.30pm. Detective Constable Carl
Wilkinson and four other officers entered and searched the Firshill
Road house...
Between a rock and a wet
place
A Rock Street resident has recently
had vandals throwing lumps of brick and concrete over her garden
wall into the pond which have split the butyl liner...
Seheli Drugs Impact Video
Launched
Hundreds of local young people, parents
and local workers packed Fir Vale School’s main Hall for
the launch of a new video about the dangers of drugs...
Issue 29 March 2003
Lester Divers - Rest
In Peace
People marched in memory at the needless
death of Lester Divers, who had just entered the first day of
this New Year, only to have his life cold bloodedly taken away...
Issue 28 February 2003
Stop the Violence
A meeting took place on 13th January
at the SADACCA Day Centre in response to the rise in violence
affecting our community. The recent fatal shooting on Spital Hill,
combined with another of a man with close ties to this community,
has raised major concerns...
Just let go of your power
Individual members of our community
expressed themselves clearly and passionately at the recent meeting.
People wanted to look at what we are getting from the police and
exactly what is being given to them to do their job...
Natural Mystic
The news was out, there’d been
another execution, this time it was Lester Divers and he’d
been killed outright...
Isolated incidents
Sgt Adrian Fox informed the Messenger
that since the stabbing and shootings over six months ago, there
have been no other high-profile incidents in Burngreave until
the two recent murders...
Issue 27 December 2002
Tracking support for
families
Carolyn Leary, Director of Sheffield
Children's Fund, replies to the article in last month's Messenger
on the Sheffield Identification, Referral and Tracking
project (SHIRT)...
Police
Claim Success
148 arrests were made by the New Deal
police team between April and August, and 149 items of information
were received from the public...
Issue 26 November 2002
Boom time for Bins!
Many residents will be shocked to learn
that the huge explosions people have been hearing nightly are
caused by young people putting fireworks into metal Council litter
bins...
Pitsmoor Children Labelled?
Personal information about 40,000 plus
‘vulnerable’ children in Sheffield, a third of all
children, may soon be available to a range of agencies, including
the police, through a new ‘web-based portal’...
Issue 25 October 2002
Eviction - the only
solution?
It’s tough living near to families
with children who cause damage, commit crimes and terrify their
neighbours, especially when they recruit others into gangs. Labelled
‘neighbours from hell’, other residents just want
them out...
 July
2002
Following rising concern
about violent crime around Burngreave
Blues, SADACCA
are organising a march and there are calls that it's time
to listen to Carwood youth
Mediation
can help… in the event of crime, and the New
Deal Police Team are working in the area.
May
2002
Stop
press - Rise in Violent Crime - Public meeting
Our
local Post Office gets a vote of thanks after surviving it's
fifth hold-up. The police warn of Sneak
in Burglaries and there's news about abandoned cars in Burnrgeave
Burns.
The New Deal pages have news of Positive
Policing in Burngreave while Rob Smith calls for The
Decriminalisation of A Nation
April
2002
Word of Anthony
Green's landmark ruling and a response
from the police to last months story of the cut
off 999 call. The New Deal police squad are accused of turning
a blind
eye.
March
2002
The Messenger has again received concerns
about the polices response
to 999 calls and local
drug problems. The New Deal announce details of a 'Burngreave
Beat' policing project and we bring details of a women's
self defence course.
February
2002
This month we've left off the police
and two of our letters
voice support for stronger policing, although even they warn about
the police's
lack of humour.
December
2001
Rob Smith reports on his experience
of CS
gas
November
2001
Inspector
Dyson protests at our coverage.
October
2001
Concerns about how Burngreave
is policed have again been raised after requests for a police
presence have been ignored.
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