Friday, April 07, 2006
Cleadon Park - crime
Cleadon Park crime collapses!
I was fascinated by a small article in the Shields Gazette this evening outlining a statistical analysis of reported crime figures in the Cleadon Park estate, South Shields. Northumbria Police analysts are claiming accords for reducing crime in the area through their use of beat managers and partnerships with South Tyneside Council's Community Wardens. Recorded crimes for March last year were 78, and in March this year that number has fallen to 40. One statistic which will not be in last year's records is a murder by stabbing, this year Lee Phipps was killed on the edge of the estate.
Acting Chief Superintendant Neil Mackay (now there's a name which belongs in The Bill) acknowledges that the area had a reputation for crime and disorder in the past, but claims that the extra resources recently used have had a beneficial effect in reducing crime. Local readers will be aware that the area included streets such as Ashgrove Avenue, Park Avenue, and The Crescent, which at times in recent years managed to look like down town Beirut in the 1970's!
The same readers will also be aware that over the past twelve months those streets have been wiped off South Shields' map as the demolition of the estate has gathered pace and new, as yet unoccupied, houses have started to appear.
Perhaps this is the real reason why levels of crime have been halved!!
Link
The Shields Gazette
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I was fascinated by a small article in the Shields Gazette this evening outlining a statistical analysis of reported crime figures in the Cleadon Park estate, South Shields. Northumbria Police analysts are claiming accords for reducing crime in the area through their use of beat managers and partnerships with South Tyneside Council's Community Wardens. Recorded crimes for March last year were 78, and in March this year that number has fallen to 40. One statistic which will not be in last year's records is a murder by stabbing, this year Lee Phipps was killed on the edge of the estate.
Acting Chief Superintendant Neil Mackay (now there's a name which belongs in The Bill) acknowledges that the area had a reputation for crime and disorder in the past, but claims that the extra resources recently used have had a beneficial effect in reducing crime. Local readers will be aware that the area included streets such as Ashgrove Avenue, Park Avenue, and The Crescent, which at times in recent years managed to look like down town Beirut in the 1970's!
The same readers will also be aware that over the past twelve months those streets have been wiped off South Shields' map as the demolition of the estate has gathered pace and new, as yet unoccupied, houses have started to appear.
Perhaps this is the real reason why levels of crime have been halved!!
Link
The Shields Gazette
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