Have your say on community safety issues

The next meeting of the multi-agency Safer Hartlepool Partnership (SHP) which is on Friday 14th March, will include a special “Face the Public” session.

The SHP meeting in the Council Chamber at Hartlepool Civic Centre starts at 12pm with formal items to which members of the public are welcome to attend. It is anticipated that the Face the Public session will commence at around 1pm where members of the public will be able to ask questions of the police and other agencies about community safety in the borough.

Hartlepool MP Jonathan Brash who chairs the Partnership, said: “Nothing angers me more than Hartlepool people feeling unsafe and insecure in their home, their street or their town. They have every right to hold me and other organisations like our police and council to account, ask questions and demand answers. That’s exactly what this event will allow people to do and I would encourage everyone to come along and do so.” 

Councillor Brenda Harrison, Leader of Hartlepool Borough Council, said: “We want to give people the chance to question member organisations of the Partnership to find out more about the work they are doing to improve community safety in Hartlepool, and also to raise issues which matter to them.

“We can only tackle issues if we are aware of them and I would encourage people to come along to the meeting to raise their concerns.”