Documenting safety across North East Lincolnshire
The question keeps coming up at residents' meetings across Grimsby, Cleethorpes and Immingham, and it deserves a straight answer rather than a polite brush-off.
For households in Grimsby, Cleethorpes and Immingham, the choice between active CCTV monitoring and passive recording is not…
The Safer Streets West Marsh campaign began with a substantial promise: £432,000 in Home Office funding to address crime and…
A weak match-funding section can undermine an otherwise practical community safety bid. The problem is rarely that a group has no…
Alley gating schemes in Grimsby are often treated as a straightforward form of home security: install a gate, restrict access…
The latest Safer Streets 5 figures for Grimsby Town Centre give residents something solid to work with: overall crime fell by…
A Safer Streets grant application is not scored simply by counting incidents in a neighbourhood and attaching a shopping list of…
A domestic CCTV camera is not automatically a private device simply because it is attached to a private house. The decisive issue…
A young person does not always need a formal prosecution pathway to receive help after an offence, police contact, or escalating…
A community-safety grant can fail for reasons that have little to do with whether residents support the idea. In North East…
A poorly lit alley is not automatically a crime hotspot, and a brighter road is not automatically a safer one. The physical…
Violence against women and girls accounted for 29% of all reported crime in North East Lincolnshire in 2023/24. The figure…
The argument over community safety grants is often presented as a choice between two camps. On one side, the council and policing…
The exposed screw heads on a shed’s hinge pins are often the first thing an opportunist looks at. On a typical timber shed — the…
The Ask for Angela scheme began in Lincolnshire in 2016 with a simple idea: give customers a discreet way to tell venue staff…
Community Wallet funding in North East Lincolnshire is not a general-purpose community grant. It is a targeted crime-prevention…
A terraced house in Grimsby can have a sound front door and still present an easy opportunity. The weakness is often outside the…
The £749,500 in Home Office Safer Streets funding associated with Grimsby’s East Marsh ward was intended to pay for physical…
A burglary deterrent that cannot be seen by the offender is only half a deterrent. Forensic property marking kits used in Grimsby…
A knife left in a drawer, shed or vehicle is not automatically harmless. In North East Lincolnshire, the legal position depends…
A community safety project in Cleethorpes can be approved in principle and still fail to reach the public. The grant may be…
A multipoint door lock does not secure a residential door through one large bolt alone. Its protection comes from a coordinated…
A repeat shoplifter walks into a Grimsby discount store they have been barred from for the past eight months. The manager spots…
When a household in Grimsby, Cleethorpes or Immingham is looking at window security, the most useful question is not which…
An anti-social behaviour warning letter is usually the first formal sign that a complaint has moved beyond a neighbourly dispute…
In 2024, the Charity Commission’s annual trustee sector survey found that 42 per cent of respondents had experienced poor service…
A security system is only useful if it changes what happens at the point of risk. A camera pointed at the sky, a door sensor…
For a grassroots safety group in East Marsh, Grimsby, the hardest part of applying for a community safety grant may not be…
An alley gate can look like a straightforward security measure: put a barrier across the entrance, give legitimate users a key…
In June 2026, the East Marsh ward of Grimsby recorded 93 reported incidents of violence and sexual offences, alongside 39…
Public Spaces Protection Orders are easy to misunderstand because they sit somewhere between local council policy and criminal…
Walk into a voluntary sector meeting in Grimsby or Cleethorpes where someone is discussing a new round of community safety…
Across Grimsby and Cleethorpes, more householders are reaching for screwdrivers and cable clips, deciding that a camera mounted…
Local safety information is only useful if it reaches people who can act on it. A warning about a distraction burglary, a missing…
Every week, someone in our patch gets the knock on the door or the phone call no parent wants. Their lad — or their girl — has…
In East Marsh, alleyway gates can look like a simple answer to a simple problem: restrict access at the rear of terraced…
Five seconds. That is roughly how long it takes an intruder to defeat a standard Euro profile cylinder using nothing more than a…
In 2024–2025, Humberside Police recorded around 7,000 domestic abuse incidents across North East Lincolnshire. That figure is not…
A security light can make a burglary attempt feel exposed, or it can give an intruder a clear view of the lock, window frame and…
£432,000. That was the headline figure when, in June 2021, the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Humberside and…
For a community safety idea in North East Lincolnshire, the difficult part has often been turning a local observation into a…
In 2021, a homeowner in the north of England was ordered to pay roughly £100,000 in damages and legal costs after a court found…
In June 2026, the East Marsh ward of Grimsby recorded 280 individual crime incidents — 93 of them classified as violence and…
On December 1, 2024, North East Lincolnshire Council published a report that deserved more attention than it received. The Safer…
Walk down any street in Immingham and you can spot the physical weak points: a broken gate latch, a dark alley with no clear…
It begins not with a lock or an alarm, but with a line of sight. Here in North East Lincolnshire, where community resilience is…
North East Lincolnshire Council estimates approximately 25,000 harmful drinkers, 15,000 binge drinkers, and 5,000 dependent…
Every time a new round of Community Wallet funding opens in North East Lincolnshire, the same question starts circulating in…
Property marking is one of those security measures that seems almost too simple to matter. There is no lock to fit, no alarm to…
Across England and Wales, excluding Greater Manchester, police recorded approximately 50,500 offences involving a sharp…
Between 2022 and 2025, the Humber Violence Prevention Partnership channelled more than £141,500 into youth outreach provision in…
A door can look solid, a window can have a multi-point lock, and a brochure can still make security sound stronger than it is…
The latest audit of night-time safety work in Grimsby offers a more useful picture than either blanket reassurance or alarm. In…
Up to £820,000. That's what each police force area across England and Wales could tap into under Round Five of the Home Office…
A camera aimed at a rear alley can feel like a sensible response to an exposed back door, a poorly lit passage or repeated…
West Marsh has a working Shop Watch radio scheme. It is also undermined, every working day, by the people holding the handsets…
A Safer Streets bid in Grimsby is not judged simply by the number of crimes recorded in a neighbourhood. The strongest…
The East Marsh Safer Streets 4 programme was backed by £749,500 in Home Office funding and produced a reported 23% reduction in…
You have almost certainly seen them: high-vis jackets, radios clipped to the belt, council identification on a lanyard, and a…
A community group can have a strong idea for East Marsh, West Marsh, Grimsby or another North East Lincolnshire neighbourhood and…
The choice between smart home security and physical target hardening is often presented as a contest between a camera on the wall…
The clearest local example of alley gating is the £432,000 Safer Streets 2 programme delivered in West Marsh, Grimsby, where…
When anti-social behaviour gathers pace in Grimsby town centre, residents and traders reasonably want the same thing: for the…
Every rejected grant application tells a story about a perimeter that was not secured. In North East Lincolnshire, where the…
East Marsh recorded 280 reported crimes in June 2026. Violence and sexual offences accounted for 93 incidents, followed by…
Documenting safety across North East Lincolnshire