WILL BRIGG GET A SHARE OF 91 EXTRA POLICE OFFICERS FOR HUMBERSIDE?

Brigg households are now receiving their council tax bills for the 2021/22 financial year, beginning in early April.
The overall increase is 3.7 per cent which includes a 1.4 per cent rise from North Lincolnshire Council and 6.6 per cent from Humberside Police.
Enclosed with the bills which are arriving in the post is a helpful four-page glossy leaflet explaining the Police Precept 2021/22, which says Humberside Police now has nearly 600 more officers than it did in 2016, with neighbourhood officers and PCSOs in every area "dealing with your priorities."
This year it is intended to recruit another 91 officers, says police & crime commissioner Keith Hunter.
Brigg Blog thinks many people in our town will not object to paying a bit more in tax to the police if we are going to see additional officers on patrol locally, though no breakdown of where the 91 will be appointed is given in the latest leaflet.
Brigg still has a police station, while many much larger places across the UK lost theirs long ago.
However, some of us can remember the 1980s when, rather than a neighbourhood constable and some local community support officers we have today, Brigg police station had a chief inspector, an inspector, several sergeants and even more constables. In those days, Humberside Police had a Brigg & Barton sub-division - Barton having its own inspector, other supervisory officers and constables.
The chief inspector and inspectors also prosecuted cases, in person, at Brigg magistrates' court on Wednesdays and Fridays, and at Barton court on Mondays. There was no Crime Prosecution Service in this era. Our 'nearest' court today is in Grimsby!
Just a reminder that today (Wednesday, March 17) there's a Humberside Police and Crime Panel meeting being held online, which members of the public can access. Commissioner Hunter and Chief Constable Lee Freeman are expected to be in attendance. View full details here...

 

PICTURED BELOW: The new police station on Barnard Avenue, Brigg, just prior to it opening in 1978 to replace the Victorian one on Wrawby Street. Brigg-based Chief Inspector Bill Horsfield in second from left.