WILL POLICE BE HELPING BRIGG COUNCILLORS WITH THEIR INQUIRIES?

Now Brigg police station is again the base for local community officers, could a representative begin attending monthly meetings of the Town Council?
That was the question posed by Coun Mike Storey during the authority's April meeting in the Angel Suite.
For some time the station, on Barnard Avenue, did not have constables and community support officers based there, although the building continued to see other important uses by Humberside Police. But there has now been a change in policy.
Town Clerk Dinah Lilley replied to Coun Storey, suggesting that when it came to attending council meetings it was perhaps a matter of officers' time rather than where they were located.
Back in the early 1980s, Chief Inspector Bill Horsfield, head of the Brigg & Barton sub-division, or one of his inspectors often attended Brigg Town Council meetings.
Later, we saw sergeants and constables in attendance.
But in recent years it has become very rare for police to put in an appearance.
However, the Town Council continues to include Police Matters on the agenda for every monthly meeting.
Issues are often raised,  but councillors cannot get an immediate face-to-face reply as was once the case. Instead, they must pass on comments to the police and await a replay.
Humberside Police does attend meetings of the Brigg & Wolds Neighbourhood Action Team (NAT) - sessions not open to the press and public.
Brigg Town Council is represented on this body and can raise any issues of interest or concern.
Quarterly meetings of the Brigg Neighbourhood Policing Panel were held for many years in the Angel Suite, with press and public in attendance.
Inspector Brett Rutty was then in charge of rural policing, delivering detailed reports and inviting questions. However, the force discontinued these forums.