Archive for category: News

Following recent incidents of ATM thefts, here are some things to look out for to help prevent this happening to a business near you:

 

• Unauthorised people paying close attention to ATMs, including taking photos or attaching ‘out of order’ signs to give an impression the machine is not working properly
• Tractors or heavy machinery vehicles being driven in the middle of the night
• People scoping houses or tampering with number plates, thieves will often do this before stealing a vehicle to use in a ram raid
• High-performance or plant vehicles that are not usually in the area and appear to have been left parked for a few days

Attaching a tracker inside your vehicle and installing CCTV or a video doorbell could help to prevent your vehicle being stolen to be used in a ram raid.

 

Most importantly if you see something that doesn’t look right, then it probably isn’t.

 

Always call 999 in an emergency.
Alternatively, you can report a crime on our website here.

School Lane will be closed for Telecommunication works the week of 17 to 21 February 2025. Residents will have access. This is during school half-term, so disruption should be minimal.

EWR team was at Comberton village hall today.

Reminder for those that missed this event that all materials presented are available on the EWR website.

East West Rail | Consultation 2024

You can provide feedback on sections that you are interested in. Barton Parish Council has responded mainly on construction concerns with A603 a likely route for construction traffic from M11. Details on the construction process are not available at this consultation but will be at the formal statutory consultation due later 2025 or early 2026. Barton Parish Council is a representative on the Local Liaison Group and so will continue to highlight our concerns over noise, pollution, traffic disruption if construction goes ahead. Timelines are such that building will not start until 2030 if EWR is approved by the Government in 2026.

If you would like to discuss EWR with a member of Barton Parish Council, please contact the Clerk.

 

Apologies there have been technical difficulties in accessing the link.

The Commissioner’s survey is available on his website here:

https://forms.office.com/e/XkNDjXp4Ym?origin=lprLink

 

As your Police and Crime Commissioner, it is my job to set the budget for policing. I need to make sure the Chief Constable has the resources he needs to effectively police Cambridgeshire and Peterborough over the coming year.

I have today launched an online survey asking people to tell me their views when it comes to funding policing in our county.

Police funding is based on a woefully inadequate national funding formula set by government which results in our county remaining one of the lowest funded forces in the country. Since the funding formula was set, our population has grown by 11% and is forecast to grow much faster than the national average.

Roughly half of the funding for Cambridgeshire Constabulary comes from government with the remainder from the policing part of council tax (known as the precept). What this means is that taxpayers in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough must contribute almost half of our total police budget.

I recently wrote to the Home Secretary (as I have done with previous Home Secretaries since first being elected in 2021) to express my concerns about this issue and will continue to lobby for fairer funding.

Every community deserves a properly funded and well-equipped police force. In Cambridgeshire, we have made huge strides to adapt and expand our capabilities to improve the way we prevent, solve and investigate crime and this effort needs to be sustained.

For the financial year, 2025-2026, Police and Crime Commissioners are expected to increase the precept element of council tax by £14 (based on a Band D property).

I am therefore reluctantly proposing an increase of 4.89% for taxpayers in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough which equates to an increase of 27p per week for Band D properties and 18p per week for Band A properties.

Please do take a moment to tell me your views.

The survey will be open until midnight on Monday 20^th January 2025.

If you need help to share your views or would prefer to give your views by telephone, please call 0300 333 3456 or email ku.ec1779271705ilop.1779271705sbmac1779271705@ccp-1779271705sbmac1779271705.

Many thanks

 

Darryl Preston

Police and Crime Commissioner