Thursday 25th February 2010

please refer to blog of 10th November 2009


POLICE HEADQUARTERS - CARLETON HALL, PENRITH

The Crimebeat Fund in Cumbria comes under the auspices of The Cumbria Community Foundation and when I have attended National Crimebeat meetings in London it was very apparent that they hoped all the counties in the country would join the Organisation. To this end and in the hope of encouraging continuity from year to year in Cumbria I arranged for Nigel Burgess, National Chairman of National Crimebeat, and Tony Harratt, National Co-ordinator of National Crimebeat, to meet with Deb Muscat, Acting Director of Cumbria Community Foundation in Kendal in November 2009.

As a result of this, we agreed to try and organise a meeting at Carleton Hall to this end.

Deb arranged this and asked Inspector Dave Willetts, Community Safety Inspector if he would attend. We also invited James Carr (High Sheriff Elect), Iona Frost-Pennington and Claire Hensman (High Sheriff 2007/8) to be present, as well as Nigel Burgess and Tony Harratt.

This proved to be a very successful meeting, resulting in the following:

It was agreed:

To continue to have annual meetings. With the CCF taking on the Secretariat role. To be done by November of each year.

CCF to meet with High Sheriff to discuss their priorities for support for their year in office. To be done by February each year.

Meetings to include past, present and future High Sheriffs.

Police to update High Sheriff's of projects they are supporting via CCF.

CCF to provide funding information to Police to pass on to Officers working in the community.

Cumbria Crimebeat Fund to be part of National Crimebeat.

High Sheriff to nominate groups they have supported for national awards. This could be discussed at the November/February meetings.

Deb Muscat to meet James Carr to discuss implementing the above for his term of office. Beginning in April 2010.

I am delighted that this has been achieved.