Latest news from PFCC Roger Hirst - 12th January 2024
2024 off to flying start for PFCC with packed January engagement schedule
The New Year is off to a flying start for the PFCC with a packed month of meetings and engagement.
Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Roger Hirst will be touring Witham with Priti Patel MP on Friday 12th January to view a Safer Streets project funded by £297,202 of funding secured by the PFCC.
On Monday (15th January), residents and businesses from across the whole of Thurrock district are invited to find out more about crime and community safety at a public meeting hosted by Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Roger Hirst.
The meeting will take place at Tilbury Community Centre, Civic Square, Tilbury, RM18 8AA on Monday 15th January, 2024, from 7pm to 8pm. All residents of Thurrock borough, including people who live in Grays, Orsett, Corringham and surrounding areas, are invited.
Roger Hirst, Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner, said: “Our public meetings are a great way to hear directly from local communities about any concerns they might have or issues they are experiencing.”
“The meetings are also a great opportunity for us to brief residents on how we are working together with a range of partners to achieve the priorities in both our Police and Crime Plan and Fire and Rescue Plan.
The Police and Crime Commissioners for the Eastern Region are seeking to recruit up to 20 Independent Panel Members (IPM) to hear police misconduct hearings from across the region. The successful candidates will sit alongside Legally Qualified Chairs and senior police officers as part of a panel of three. They will hear cases involving officers from Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies.
Misconduct Hearing Panels involve serious misconduct cases and are an important aspect of the disciplinary rules that govern the police, helping to ensure public trust and confidence is maintained.
Visit Essex and Essex County Council are undertaking a review of the 'visitor economy', looking at all the touch-points that visitors to Essex see and enjoy - from accommodation to attractions, conferences to culture and pubs to paths.
We aim to consider all the opportunities and develop a destination management plan to ensure that the County can build on its success and continue to be a great place to visit, live and work.
Your views are an important part of this process and we’d really appreciate hearing what you think.
The survey should take no longer than 10 - 12 minutes.
Drug dealers in Essex given 800 years in jail in 2023
Specialist teams secured more than 800 years in jail sentences for drug dealers and safeguarded more than 400 vulnerable people across a relentless year of action.
Our Serious Violence Unit, set up in July 2020 to dismantle drugs gangs and reduce serious violence in Essex, has adapted its focus throughout 2023.
The unit includes our Operation Raptor teams, who have been at the forefront of work to tackle drug activity in recent years.
But the unit is working ever more closely with partners, such as our Violence and Vulnerability Unit, on safeguarding the exploited adults and children left in the wake of criminal gangs.
This refreshed approach has not halted our enforcement work, with the unit arresting 440 people across the 12 months to November 2023.
