Safer Neighbourhoods Awards
2012
Broxbourne
Local Community Safety Champions
Announced in Broxbourne
Hertfordshire Police Authority has
named the regional winners for the annual Safer Neighbourhood
Awards 2012. The winners are invited to a ceremony at
Hertford’s County Hall in May, where the overall county title
winners will be announced on the night.
A local panel of judges from the
Police Authority, Constabulary and Broxbourne Borough Council went
through dozens of nominations to select the deserving
winners. They were:
Community Safety Citizen’s
Award
Carol Bowman
Carol is the Chairman of the
Holdbrook Residents Association, which has been running
successfully now for three years. During this time Carol has worked
alongside Broxbourne Council, Broxbourne Housing Association and
the Constabulary, in trying to develop a better living environment,
by encouraging young people to be involved in local issues around
the estate. Carol has also supported residents when dealing with
police matters, by reporting incidents on their behalf, encouraging
residents to make statements and helping with enquiries, making the
Holdbrook a better place to live.
Neighbourhood Police Officer of the Year Award
PC Mark Hodges
from Cheshunt SNT
PC Mark Hodges was nominated due to
his constant professionalism and dedication to his role and the
area he covers. His beat is one of the safest and well looked after
and there is always positive feedback from residents and
shopkeepers who live and work there. Mark also successfully managed
to charge an individual for a total of three offences as a result
of months of hard work and a ‘never give up’ attitude. His work
ethic and attitude towards making his community a safer place
deserves recognition as he is an outstanding officer who is a
credit not only to Hoddesdon but to the Constabulary.
Police Community Support
Officer (PCSO) of the Year Award
PCSO Jane Collins (Waltham Cross and Theobalds) and PCSO
Kayleigh Simm(Goffs Oak and Cheshunt West)
Following the public disorder at
Waltham Cross in August 2011, Jane and Kayleigh were drafted to
Operation Allay to assist with the investigation. Over a number of
weeks, they tirelessly viewed hundreds of hours of CCTV coverage of
the incident. This required them to be based at another station,
working additional hours and having rest days cancelled. All of
these things they willing and unselfishly
did.
Due to their concerted efforts,
they successfully gathered vital evidence of numerous offences and
applying their local knowledge identified the protagonists; who
were duly arrested. In addition, they subsequently assisted with
compiling the evidence which ensured these offenders were not only
charged and remanded, but also found guilty at court and received
custodial sentences.
Neighbourhood Policing Team
of the Year Award
Broxbourne Crime Prevention SNAT Team
PCSO Scott Rome and PCSO Adrian Pomfrett
Scott and Adrian are tasked to lead
on Crime Prevention for Broxbourne CSP. They source many different
funding routes to ensure they can purchase as much crime prevention
material as possible, to have the maximum impact across the
borough. This has included providing and fixing safe screws to
prevent number plate theft, property marking and subsequently
submitting details onto the Immobilise Site, property marking in
schools, delivering counterfeit note detector pens to most shops
across Broxbourne, distributing disability hate crime reporting
packs to various day centres for adults with learning difficulties
and holding ‘Keep Safe’ mornings.
Dr Sarah Coffey JP, Police
Authority Lead for Broxbourne said: “These awards are a great
opportunity to recognise the excellent work of police officers,
PCSOs, community safety groups and members of the public who work
together to help keep Broxbourne safe. I have been impressed
with the number of nominations we received this year from both
members of the public and local partners, it has been a difficult
decision to identify those who should go forward to the County
judging panel.
“Our Broxbourne winners were agreed
by the judging panel and I hope their exemplary contribution to our
local communities, will be successful at the next stage of these
awards. I would also like to express my thanks and
appreciation to everyone who took the time to make nominations, and
of course to those who were nominated for all of their excellent
work.”
Chief Inspector for Broxbourne –
Dave Newsome added: “I am very grateful to our community and
partners for taking the time to nominate individuals and teams for
this year’s awards. The awards are a fantastic opportunity to
highlight the efforts of team Broxbourne, where there are so many
examples of community and partners working together toward
community safety. Our nominees continue to make Broxbourne a safe
place to live and visit and where levels of crime and anti-social
behaviour continue to fall.”
Nominations opened in December 2011 to members of the public and
‘partners’ of the Constabulary from across Hertfordshire, including
local councils, the Fire & Rescue Service and voluntary groups,
such as Neighbourhood Watch.
Hundreds of nominations were
received online and have contributed to one of the most
hotly-contested Safer Neighbourhoods Awards in its six-year
history.