North Yorkshire Police has been awarded £1 million as part of a government initiative to tackle anti-social behaviour.
The Home Office announced last week it was awarding £66 million to police forces in England and Wales for extra police patrols in a anti-social behaviour hotspots.
The £1 million awarded to North Yorkshire Police was the minimum sum to any constabulary.
The Home Office said the funding will be used to “deploy uniformed patrols for up to 20,000 hours in hotspot areas each year, helping drive down crime and boost public confidence in their local force”.
The Office of the North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner said in a statement today the funding would help to develop a successful pilot scheme, which saw rates of anti-social behaviour drop by 40%.
The statement said the public cited anti-social behaviour as one of the most pressing issues facing them in their day to day lives but added the county had “one of the lowest crime rates in any region of the two nations”.
Zoë Metcalfe, North Yorkshire’s Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner, said:
“My office will be working with North Yorkshire Police and our partners in community safety, including local councils, on a strategy to use this funding for anti-social behaviour hotspot policing to best effect and to keep people safe and feeling safe.
“We will report back on our proposals to the Home Office in March, when I will be able to provide more details of our plans.
“People tell me that they are concerned about anti-social behaviour and I understand their feelings of fear and frustration and that’s why tackling anti-social behaviour is a priority in my police and crime plan.”
Home Secretary James Cleverly said:
“Our plan will put more officers on patrol in local communities up and down the country – an approach that has been proven to work, to help ensure that people are not only safe, but that they feel safe, in their neighbourhoods.”
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