Do you want more police on the beat in our area?

If you’re interested in the improving the quality of life in King’s Cross, one of the most valuable meetings that you should consider attending is the Caledonian Ward Safer Neighbourhoods Panel that usually meets about once a month.

As the title would indicate, this meeting is about local residents working directly with the Safer Neighbourhood’s Police Team to discuss ways in which police resources can be best directed to problem areas in our Ward.  More importantly, as this meeting is chaired by our local Councillor Paul Convery, your views will be directly heard by your elected representative as well as the Safer Neighbourhoods Police Team!

One of the initiatives, now being pushed by Councillor Convery is a development of a pilot project to increase the size of our Safer Neighbourhood’s Police Team – from 6 to 9 members.  This would be a significant achievement as currently every ward only has six Team members.  Councillor Convery believes that as our Ward has now developed such a good working relationship with our Team, that our Ward could be considered for a pilot project that could eventually be rolled out to other Wards following our example.

Naturally as with any initiative seeking expanded resources, this is an uphill battle and we must be able to demonstrate that the Ward residents not only support this initiative, but will continue to be active members of the panel that provides real direction to our Team.

We need your support for the initiative. Specifically, we encourage you to come to these meetings and to send emails encouraging the Met to consider Caledonian Ward for this unique initiative.

As government agencies are now developing their budgets for the coming year, time is of the essence and we want the Borough’s Police Commander to know that the residents of the Caledonian Ward want to see this initiative put in place.  A short email showing your support for Councillor Paul Convery’s initiative to expand our Safer Neighbourhoods Team would be very helpful.  His email address is paul.convery@islingtonlabour.org.uk

And please, try to come to our next meeting.  To be added to the Panel’s mailing list for future meeting notifications, please send an email to Jennifer Christie, the Panel’s secretary, at jennifer.christie@talk21.com. Should you also wish to be added to the King’s Cross Community Mailing List, please send an email to me, mentioning where in the ward that you live – stephan@yorkcentral.co.uk