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Neighbourhood Policing—an open letter from PC Steve Smith

NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICING TEAM PATELEY BRIDGE

As from April 3rd 2006 North Yorkshire Police re-aligned their beat areas to match those of the council ward boundaries. The Pateley Bridge policing area was aligned with the three wards of Pateley Bridge, Nidd Valley and lower Nidderdale and are under the direct charge of Inspector Craig Linton who is based at Ripon Police Station.

The three wards are policed by a team of five officers based at Pateley Bridge Police Station led by Ps1075 Matt Hagen who is based at Ripon. Bewerley Parish is within Nidd Valley ward and the officers assigned responsibility for specific wards as follows:
  • Nidd Valley:   Pc811 Steve Smith
  • Pateley Bridge: Pc151 Dave Tetley and Pc541 Tom Shardlow
  • LowerNidderdale: Pc518 Graham Tetley and Pc1274 Mick Oliver

Our role is to tackle long standing problems and to gather intelligence to enable us to police effectively.

Should you wish to contact me to discuss any community issues giving you concern or any information you wish to give freely please either email me directly at steve.smith811@northyorkshire.pnn.police.uk If you do not have email, telephone 0845 60 60 247 and leave a message with a call taker who will send me an email with details of your call.

Calls to the police requiring an immediate or as soon as practicable response will be dealt with by a team of dedicated ‘response’ officers in the first instance based at Knaresborough, Ripon and Harrogate operating 24 hours a day. Further details are available from the North Yorkshire Police website www.northyorkshire.police.uk.

The number to ring for any calls to the police that are non emergency but require attendance is 0845 60 60 247 where your call can be recorded and the incident graded for allocation.

Please do not use any previous numbers you have been given to ring the Pateley office direct to report an incident; there is no facility to input your call onto the computer and there will be periods when no officer is on duty.

If you consider your call is an emergency that requires immediate attendance then ring 999. Examples being :-

  • Where life and limb are at risk
  • A crime is being committed and offenders still present
  • Road traffic collisions where emergency services are required to protect and manage the scene.


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