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How should crime and disorder be dealt with?

crime-and-disorder-surveyThe Safer West Sussex Partnership is inviting residents, businesses and partner agencies from across West Sussex to participate in its survey on crime and disorder.

Each year the partnership conducts a comprehensive review, bringing together information from a range of sources to produce a picture of where crime is occurring, the types of crimes people are suffering from and what agencies and organisations are doing to deal with the issues.

Using this information the Partnership can identify which crimes and areas of work are priorities for the year which is then published in a County Community Safety Agreement.

To support this review the Partnership is seeking the views of people who live and work in West Sussex in order to steer the delivery of services underneath its priorities. We would like you to tell us which of our ten priorities are most important to you and how you would allocate resources if you were in charge of the budgets.

Help us to deliver better services for you and your communities by spending a few minutes filling in our online survey available at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SWSP2014

Please feel free to forward this email onto any other parties you believe may be interested in helping us shape the way we serve our customers and communities.

The survey will run until the 11th April.

Please contact the Better Communities Team for more information: better.communities@westsussex.gov.uk

“New haciendas and gin palaces” [update]


Local readers will be disappointed to learn that they are not about to gain access to additional haciendas and gin palaces. The Argus reports that the new rule allowing redundant farm buildings to be converted or demolished so as to create up to three houses without planning permission will not apply in the South Downs National Park.

Maharajah arrests

The Maharajah restaurant in Bramber
The West Sussex County Times reports that officers from a Home Office Immigration Enforcement team visited the Maharajah in Bramber at 9:15pm on Thursday March 13th and arrested three Bangladeshi men:

Two, aged 28 and 32, had overstayed their visas while a 32-year-old was found to have entered the country illegally. .. The business was served notices warning that a civil penalty of up to £10,000 per illegal worker found will be imposed unless proof is provided that the correct right-to-work checks were carried out. This is a potential total of up to £30,000 for the restaurant.

Small Dole Auxiliary Unit Patrol

Old Erringham by Simon Carey

Old Erringham (Simon Carey) / CC BY-SA 2.0

Auxiliary Units were a secret resistance network of highly trained volunteers prepared to be Britain’s last ditch line of defence during World War Two. They operated in a network of cells from hidden underground bases around the UK. [CART]

There’s now a page of information about the Small Dole Auxiliary Unit Patrol on the CART website. The Sussex Regional Headquarters was at Tottington Manor. Volunteers in Sussex, as elsewhere, were mostly local farmers. If you have any information about the Small Dole unit, or its members, please contact CART. If you have never previously heard of the ‘Auxiliary Units’ but think they sound interesting, then the book to read is Stewart Angell’s (1996) The Secret Sussex Resistance, 1940-1944, Midhurst: Middleton Press (readily available).