New police plan for Ballymena is unveiled

Police in Ballymena have launched their policing plan for the new financial year - with burglary, anti-social behaviour and the rising incidence of metal theft at the top of the agenda.
By The Newsroom
Published 20th Apr 2012, 12:09 BST

The plan sets out the issues that have been identified as important to local people and how police will respond to them in providing personal, professional and protective policing to all in the community.

Among the priorities of local police will be to reduce burglary, metal thefts and antisocial behaviour.

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T/Superintendent John Magill said: “Our aim is to deliver these changes through personal, professional and protective policing. We will seek to reduce the number of burglary and theft incidents and we want to continue the reduction in anti-social behaviour that has been achieved over the last year. Reducing the harm caused by violent crime and drugs is also important to us.

“I recognise, though, that there is more that we can do. With the support of the community, we will achieve our aims.”

Councillor Audrey Wales, Chair elect of the new Policing and Community Safety Partnership (PCSP), said in support of the PSNI’s Local Policing Plan for 2012/13: “I am glad to see that the police have responded to the main community concerns identified by the former CSP and DPP partnerships. And we will do all that we can in the new PCSP to encourage the public to cooperate with all the Local Neighbourhood Police Officers, as they work to address the community’s concerns in the various areas that are impacted by these crimes across the Borough.”

She continued, “I am very pleased that the local police have prioritised anti-social behaviour as one of the main concerns, all Councillors are only too aware of the damaging impact that this behaviour can have on the victims. We know that burglary and rural theft incidents have increased the fear of crime of residents in the town and rural community, as well as the on-going problem of the drugs culture and the recent increase in violent crime. I would therefore urge all who are concerned about all the types of crime mentioned in the 2012/13 Local Policing Plan, to work with your local Neighbourhood Police Officer and other bodies that can help to address these problems, because if we work together we have a fighting chance of defeating the criminals who blight our community, but alone we will continue to be isolated victims.”

Copies of the plan can be viewed on the website, www.psni.police.uk