Bay Harbour: March 22, 2017

Wednesday March 22 2017
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Police reassure residents
• By Caitlin Miles
A MEETING between Lyttelton
police and residents has
defused tensions after locals
felt authorities weren’t in the
community enough.
After months of concerns
from residents over the lack of
policing in the community a
meeting was held to clarify the
crime rate in the community
and answer questions from residents.
Canterbury
metro commander
Superintendent
Lane Todd, Canterbury
area prevention
manager
Peter
Newsome
Acting Inspector
Paul Reeves,
Senior Sergeant
Stephen McDaniel
POLICING: The meeting between police and residents covered concerns and provided
information as to how police operate in the area.
and Sergeant Dave Knowles ran
the meeting on Thursday at the
Lyttelton Primary School hall.
About 25 people attended,
including members of the Banks
Peninsula Community Board,
community patrol team and
local MPs.
Superintendent Todd started the
meeting by saying the station located
in the town would not close.
However, he also said the station
would not be manned 24/7
as there was not enough resources,
especially since the crime rate
has reduced in the area.
Acting Inspector Reeves
said from 2015 to 2016 crime
in the area had dropped 8 per
cent, with 122 crimes reported
last year, down from the 133
reported the year before.
One woman said she was concerned
no one was at the police
station and wanted to know
what the police did when they
weren’t in the station.
Sergeant Knowles said the
six officers have a large area
to cover, including Diamond
Harbour, and they are often
mobile. However, if something is
reported someone will be there
to follow it.
“We are probably out and
about more than five years ago
because of the mobility.
“If we aren’t working or on
shift someone from town will be
there,” Sergeant Knowles said.
Several residents said when
they called the station no one
was there and they could not
report anything.
Superintendent Todd said if
they need to call police because
they are concerned for their
safety they should phone 111.
“Don’t think there’s just six
people in Lyttelton, there is a
team in Christchurch and they
are not far away, they could be
doing a patrol near by, get a call
and be here,” he said.
The police also encouraged
people to join the City to Sumner
Community Patrol, and
offer help around their own
community.
Former police officer and
resident Peter Newsome said he
would still like to see police in
the area 24/7 but was happy the
officers had reassured the community.
“People know more about
what is going on in the area,” Mr
Newsome said.
In Brief
LIBRARY HOURS
The Redcliffs Village Library
will have longer operating
hours from April 6. It will
be open for a late night on
Thursday and longer on
Saturday. On Monday-
Wednesday and Friday the
library will operate from 10am
to 4pm, On Thursday it will be
open from 10am to 7pm and on
Saturday it will be open from
10am to 12.30pm. Additional
staff has been recruited to keep
the library open for longer and
meet community needs.
CLARIFICATION
Last week’s page one Bay
Harbour News article
which said city council had
budgeted $100,000 for the
Scarborough Park changing
sheds in its Annual Plan was
incorrect. We got it wrong. The
Linwood-Central-Heathcote
Community Board asked
city council to include the
money in its draft Annual
Plan to build changing sheds
on Sumner beach to prevent
people using the Sumner
beach toilets at Marriner St
as changing rooms. These
were the toilets resident Peter
Hansen was referring to,
not the Scarborough Park
changing sheds.
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