Watch schemes to improve (From Darlington and Stockton Times)

Watch schemes to improve

1:12pm Friday 20th November 2009

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THE crime-busting Watch schemes operated in and around the Thirsk area are being revitalised.

Extra resources are to be pumped into the Neighbourhood and CountryWatch schemes to support both officers and co-ordinators.

The move is a bid to increase the turnaround of information, enhance the sharing of information and to boost feedback from the police to the co-ordinators.

More than 30 co-ordinators met as the Thirsk Regeneration Initiative’s Safer Thirsk Group began to look at how existing working arrangements between the police and the local community could be improved.

"A number of scheme co-ordinators had expressed a wish to discuss the current systems and procedures with representatives from the police and other agencies," said the chair of the Safer Thirsk Group, Bill Austin.

"The meeting provided an excellent opportunity for Neighbourhood Watch and Countrywatch co-ordinators to ask questions and discuss any issues regarding the effectiveness of the current scheme."

The group will host a second meeting in the New Year to look at the success of the improved scheme.

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