The police report one house break-in in Queen Edith’s in the past week (since 28th December 2012): in Wulfstan Way on New Year’s Eve. The intruder(s) got in through an unsecured large windown, and prised open another. They advise that nothing was stolen: nevertheless, any break-in is extremely unsettling.

For the first week in some time, there have been no bike thefts in Queen Edith’s – good news.

Police have been actively monitoring cyclists and issuing fines for illegal cycling on the pavement and without lights at night, on the instructions of the new Police and Crime Commissioner, Sir Graham Bright. Although I support the police enforcing the law for cycling offences,  I hope it is not to be at the expense of lawbreaking by other road users, such as  motorists speeding and using mobile phones whilst driving. I know which I find most dangerous.

The South Cambridge Neighbourhood Police Team will be at the Cambridge South Area Committee on January 14th (Cherry Hinton Village Centre, starting at 7.30pm after an Open Forum). The local team will be reporting on their activities over the past six months in Queen Edith’s, Trumpington and Cherry Hinton. You can read the report here.

The report will include crime statistics and details of how they have tacked the policing priorities for each ward; in Queen Edith’s the priorities were dangerous driving and parking outside schools, and domestic burglaries. They have spent 15 hours monitoring school parking at Morley Memorial, Queen Edith’s, Queen Emma, the Perse Pelican and Homerton Children’s Centre and they consider ‘most of the time the parking is both lawful and considerate.’ 15 hours in 6 months, spread between five schools doesn’t seem very much time to me. What do you think?

If you wish to comment on these or any other policing matters, please attend the meeting – it is open to the public. If you cannot make it, please contact me or one of the other members of the Focus Team, and we will do our best to represent your concerns.

To visit Cambridgeshire Constabulary‘s website please follow this link: http://www.cambs-police.co.uk/index.asp

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