Bradford misses out again on anti-crime money

4.26.37pm UTC (GMT +0000) Thu 24th Aug 2006

Councillor David Ward, chair of the Bradford North Anti-crime partnership is writing to the Home Secretary to protests that for the second time in a month Bradford has been ignored in a major push to reduce crime and make people fell more secure in their homes.

He said,

" We did not receive extra money for sorting out nuisance mini-moto bikes and now it seems that the Home Office is not including Bradford in the poster scheme to attract recruits to be Police Community Support Officers.

Posters encouraging people to come forward to be PCSOs are being put up by the Home Office in major cities including Leeds, Sheffield, Hull, Manchester, Newcastle and Liverpool but not in Bradford

On top of that West Yorkshire Police will have to fund the cost of the abandoned merger with the other Yorkshire Forces. The national bill is estimate at £11.5m and the Home Office has said that they will pay for this. But if they have £11.5m to spare it would have been better spent on police officers on the ground. "