New police targets getting results

That s the view of Bexhill Sector Commander Max Mosley who will address to the Bexhill Police Consultative Group on October 10.

Insp Mosley s report shows Bexhill has achieved significant results in targeted police work over the last three months.

The ethos of our working practices at Bexhill is to come together as a team to target people who cause problems, he says.

We have focused on five key individuals who we believe have been responsible for a significant proportion of crime and everyone of them has received a prison sentence.

The best form of problem solving, he continues, was to arrest that small proportion of the community who actually commit crime. One such person was sent to prison for two years as a result of an initiative to target car criminals.

Theft from cars had risen alarmingly by 36 per cent from April 2000 to February 2001 and car thefts had gone up by 26 per cent.

Car crime was now down by 32 per cent from April to August this year.

There were 130 reported thefts from cars in this period, 62 less than the same period last year. Seventy-one car thefts from April-August meant the 26 per cent increase was now a seven per cent decrease.

By any measure these figures are a tremendous success and are a tribute to both the public reporting suspicious activity and to my team, he added.

Although we mustn t become complacent about the reduction they so illustrate what can be achieved when we use this directed activity approach.