BRIGG POLICE STALWARTS MOVING ON: THEY WILL BE MISSED

Insp Brett Rutty

Most Brigg people will have heard that the policing of our town is changing. This means we are losing some familiar faces and we wish them well in their roles elsewhere. Among them are Insp Bretty Rutty, Sgt Howard Garlick and Pc Jane Proud. 
The changes will not be complete until mid-April. But Brett, we gather, is now working on the North Bank.
He oversaw rural policing in North Lincolnshire, not just in Brigg. When we still had quarterly public policing meetings in Brigg - up to a few years ago - he was the man who "faced the music" in the Angel Suite.
The reports he delivered to the public on policing issues - including "hot spots" - were always well presented and informative. 
Brigg Blog, as we keep saying, is non-political. The issue of changes to policing has become a bit of a political football in recent weeks. But we will stick to facts. 
In January 1980, when we first started reporting crime issues in Brigg, there was a Brigg & Barton sub-division of Humberside Police. Chief Inspector Bill Horsfield, a very experienced and long-serving officer who lived in our town, was its head, and there were inspectors in Brigg and Barton, plus sergeants and constables.
Bill prosecuted his own criminal cases in Barton court on Monday and at Brigg court on Wednesdays and Fridays. There was no Crown Prosecution Service.
Make of that what you will. 

Pc Jane Proud on patrol in Bridge Street, Brigg. 

Sgt Howard Garlick: From April 15 he  will no longer have geographic responsibility for Brigg. Howard will be working in the Ashby area.