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Jul 2022
A campaign has been launched to help a business organisation get a better picture of how crime affects Harrogate town centre.
Harrogate BID's Report a Crime campaign is calling on businesses, residents and visitors to report all crimes and anti-social behaviour via North Yorkshire Police's website.
The organisation's manager, Matthew Chapman, said:
It follows a meeting between Mr Chapman and North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Zoe Metcalfe, when he raised BID members' concerns about a lack of visible policing.
Mr Chapman said the commissioner told him police chiefs rely on statistics in order to prioritise resources and, if crimes go unreported, police are unable to give the right resources to the affected areas.
She urged him to encourage all BID levy payers and others to use online reporting to ensure all incidents were being passed to police.
The campaign not only runs during daytime hours, but extends to evening and night-time trading. Alan Huddart, secretary of Harrogate Pubwatch, said:
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