Another roundup of community safety related news this week. Don’t forget previous weekly editions are online.
General News
“North East Lincolnshire Council leads the way on educating about Violence Against Women and Girls”. Read the in-depth article about all the proactive work happening locally.
The fifth North East Lincolnshire PREVENT Conference will be held on Thursday 6th November 2025, via Microsoft Teams. It will start at 9.30am and be a half day event. https://www.sectorsupportnel.org.uk/event/north-east-lincolnshire-prevent-conference-2025-via-teams/
Scams and Fraud Awareness
If you’ve got a mobile phone, tablet, computer or use social media or email, then you probably should understand how to protect yourself and your family from scams and fraud. The National Cyber Security Centre has a page full of important advice and tips.
We’ve just been through Amazon Prime Day sales and the scammers were busy pretending to be Amazon. Read this article from Which? about watching out for Amazon scams.
Police related Updates
Nationally the Police are conducting a survey of their Social Media approaches. Take 5 mins to contribute. Survey link here.
The office of the Humberside Police and Crime Commissioner is seeking your thoughts in a survey to gather public views on Policing and Community Safety from communities in the Humber Region. Read more or go to the survey which is open until the end of September.
Final reminder about Nee Naw Day 2025 26th July (tomorrow!) Lots more information about the event on Facebook here.
ONS crime figures show Humberside Police’s reported crime fall for the fifth consecutive time
A new policing scheme tackling the roads in Grimsby. Read the article and watch the video.
Community Safety related
Save lives in your community. Volunteer as a first aid responder. South bank volunteers wanted. See this local info from Community Vision and more about the roles on St Johns Ambulance here.
Local areas
South Ward: Join partners in Nunsthorpe at the “Together for Tomorrow” community safety event on 12th August in Sutcliffe Park.
Neighbourhood Watch
Reporting things. We’re encouraging everyone and every network of people to ensure they are reporting their concerns and issues properly. On the principle that, if it’s not reported then it didn’t happen, we want to ensure it’s clear how to report things that concern you. 999 for emergencies is obvious, as hopefully is 101, but there are many other crimes that can be reported to the Police and there’s lots of routes on the Humberside Police website for reporting at https://www.humberside.police.uk/ro/report/. But many issues might be for reporting to the Council. So a similar page on the NELincs website details everything that you should be telling the Council about: https://www.nelincs.gov.uk/report-it/. We’ve started putting some of the information about reporting different issues together on a web page of our own here: https://nelwatch.org.uk/reportit/. Please encourage your networks to report things appropriately so that issues can be acted on.
Our regular reminder to tell your neighbours to sign themselves up to MyCommunityAlert. An important way to keep up with local updates from the Police, Fire and other partners.
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Back next week…
Karl
Footnotes
WeekNotes 6 Friday 25th July 2025
By Karl Elliott, VANEL, NELwatch, HumberWatch
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