There is a considerable level of smoke and mirrors around policing funding, particularly when you look at overall policing numbers and the budgets available to a particular police force. To be clear that isn’t a criticism of North Yorkshire Police, that is criticism of the North Yorkshire Police Fire and Crime Commissioner, Julia Mulligan and the Home Office for putting out headline grabbing PR that they know many won’t read through. That headline figure from the Government is that policing will receive an extra £636million this year – that is of course dependent on the general public contributing more which
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Each week the North Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum (NYLRF) provides a media briefing. The group is formed from all the lead figures in policing, public health, testing and hospitals. These are the main points from the briefing. The Covid-19 statistics for North Yorkshire have improved over the week, but not as significantly as they had done the previous week, the term plateauing was used. There was caution around over optimism leading to the public relaxing the measures too quickly. It was thought that although theoretically areas of North Yorkshire could be a Tier-1, the group didn’t especially support that as
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Director of Public Health, Dr Lincoln Sargeant is moving to a new post in the South West of England after eight years in the county. Dr Sargeant has been instrumental in establishing and leading the county’s Public Health service since the transfer of responsibilities from the NHS to local government in April 2013. He is moving to become the new Director of Public Health for Torbay, in a board-level post, which also has a formal lead role for prevention within the Devon Integrated Care System. Louise Wallace will take up the post in North Yorkshire as interim Director of Public
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North Yorkshire Police have handed out 159 fixed penalty notices over the last week for breach of Covid-19 regulations. Most were issued for being outside without a reasonable reason, and most were issued in Scarborough. Craven – 4 Hambleton – 3 Harrogate – 6 Richmond – 0 Ryedale – 0 Scarborough – 126 Selby – 6 York – 14 North Yorkshire now has the challenge of being surrounded by Tier-3 regions. Residents from a Tier-3 should only travel to a Tier-2 for essential journeys, and not for shopping or a night out – essential reasons includes for work. No tags
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