SIGN OF THE TIMES AT BRIGG POLICE STATION

Brigg police station, on Barnard Avenue, has been given a nice metal noticeboard, containing information of interest to members of the public passing by on foot along the A18, Barnard Avenue.
Nothing much for Brigg Blog to comment on there, you might think.
But doesn’t the installation of a very old-fashioned and traditional way of getting messages over to the public seem a little at odds with having high-tech crime figures posted on the internet – street by street?
They, of course, appear on that “all singing, all dancing” national crime website which the Government launched in a blaze of glory at the beginning of the year.
However, Brigg Blog’s opinion is that the more ways the police use to put over information to the public, the better - particularly when it comes to crime prevention advice. So we are not knocking the noticeboard!
The “silver surfers” among us may well recall that, in the 1960s and 1970s, police station noticeboards contained details of Tufty Club meetings and posters for reporting sightings of Colorado beetles, which were going to decimate crops over here, if permitted to breed and spread.
These were the days of Inspector Dunn and Sgt Foreman at the old “cop shop” adjoining the courthouse, the present police facility not coming along until the late 1970s.
It would be interesting to know whether the new metal noticeboard outside Brigg police station forms part of Humberside Police’s corporate image, illustrated by the recent introduction of the distinctive white signage (pictured below), which looks very nice. Perhaps someone within Humberside Police will supply the answer.