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Our short survey will help us improve the Hastings Shopwatch and Barwatch schemes. The schemes are only as strong as their membership, so we need to know what you want from them, plus what you think is great and what needs fixing. The questions in THIS SURVEY relate to the impact crime has on your business, your membership of the BCRP (if relevant) and your opinions about the radio network, data and intelligence sharing, and partnership meetings. We also need to know whether you see the scheme as value for money and what you believe a fair membership fee would […]

A man has been barred from entering Hastings, St Leonards or the Rother district due to persistent anti-social behaviour, police said. Dale Phillip Glicksman, unemployed, from Thiepval Drive, Tonbridge, Kent, has been banned from the areas for the next two years. The 18-year-old appeared before Hastings magistrates on Tuesday (September 4) where he was served with a Criminal Behaviour Order after the bench was told he had engaged in behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm and distress. Police said the order, issued under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, also prohibits Glicksman from associating with any girl under […]

Anti-social behaviour in St Leonards-on-Sea by a 31-year-old man of no fixed address has led to local magistrates issuing him with a two-year Criminal Behaviour Order. The CBO, which became active on Wednesday 15 August, means Dean Walker is now prohibited from being drunk in public, possessing alcohol in a public place, behaving in any way causing or likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress and from acting or inciting others to act in an anti-social manner. He must also attend and engage with alcohol misuse appointments. Failure to comply with the CBO means Walker, who is unemployed, commits a […]

In the year ending June 2018, the shoplifting rate in Hastings was lower than the average shoplifting rate across similar areas. The red and green lines show how far the shoplifting rate would normally vary from the average. Hastings lies below the green line, so its shoplifting rate is lower than normal for the group. How to interpret this chart This chart compares the crime rate in your local area to the average crime rate across similar areas. It shows the total number of crimes over a twelve month period per thousand residents, for the crime type selected. Where your […]