Our next South Cambs meeting will take place on 8th August. The quarterly meeting hosted by your neighbourhood Inspector Simon Birch and his team. You will hear about work that has taken place across the area over the past three months, have the opportunity to address any concerns or ask and questions and help shape the local policing priorities for the coming quarter.
If you can’t make the meeting, please take a few minutes to fill in the survey. Every response is read and helps us to understand what concerns residents most – https://bit.ly/3Wx8krJ
Our cyber security advisor, Nigel Sutton, has this important warning ⚠️…
“Are you clued up on OTPs? That’s right, one-time passcodes! Those annoying messages that pop up every now and again asking you to verify an online purchase.
“As irritating as they can be when you’re trying to complete a transaction, these passcodes – which are usually sent to your mobile phone via text message – provide a vital defence in the fight against fraud to ensure thieves and scammers can’t make purchases with your card details.
“However, fraudsters have discovered a workaround and are now calling customers pretending to be from the bank or a trusted organisation, such as the police, requesting OTPs, which they can then use to make a fraudulent transaction.
“June saw the highest number of suspected OTP scams nationally and there have been just over 3,000 successful scams reported in the last six months, 57 of which were in Cambridgeshire.
“Remember, your bank will never ask you to share an OTP, neither will we. Keep them to yourself!”
For more on fraud, visit the dedicated pages of our website. Message Sent By Larissa Chapman (Police, Communications officer , Corporate Communications)
If you have any questions about these roadworks please contact Cambridgeshire Highways on 0345 045 5212 (during office hours – 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday)
If you have any questions about these roadworks please contact Cambridgeshire Highways on 0345 045 5212 (during office hours – 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday)
Last week our officers visited construction sites in the county as part of ongoing efforts to combat modern slavery.
The action follows a national increase in the number of modern slavery cases being identified within the construction industry.
On this occasion no victims were identified, but officers were still able to offer advice to workers and site managers. The vast majority of businesses are legitimate, but some exploit workers with poor working conditions and pay well below the minimum wage.
If you’re employed in the industry, or you’re getting construction work completed on your home, please be aware of the signs and report any concerns.
The Traffic Management Centre (TMC) monitors the county’s road network and reports any variations to the traffic flow, we refer to these as ‘incidents’. We use the term ‘incident’ to describe something that has happened on the County’s road network which has an impact (of varying degrees) on usual traffic flows. This could include, for example, a Road Traffic Collision, a burst water main or temporary traffic lights for road works.
We are using a new web-based system to log and display these incidents in both map and report formats.
The TMC responded to 109 incidents on the road network throughout Cambridgeshire in June covering 22 weekdays. This is an increase to May and that of June 2022. Please see the table below which illustrates the number of incidents over the last 6 months, compared to the same period last year;
Incidents by month/year
January
February
March
April
May
June
2022
122
100
132
90
61
97
2023
167
138
132
79
73
109
Our @Cambs_Traffic Twitter account is our quickest engagement tool with the public and the interaction gives a good indication of how effective the messages are getting out to people.
Throughout June we gained 7 new followers. The number of tweets sent, and number of tweet impressions increased compared to the previous month. The number of profile visits also increased giving us our biggest jump up in 6 months.
Twitter Analytics
Jan-23
Feb-23
Mar-23
Apr-23
May-23
June-23
Number of Followers
16,575
16,716
16,720
16,739
16,749
16,756
Increase in followers from previous month
75
103
4
19
10
7
Number of Tweets sent
208
412
442
253
127
341
Number of profile visits
7,695
15,749
12,336
9,525
4,068
10,700
Number of Tweet impressions
549,000
591,485
500,851
384,560
536,664
583,226
Note: The number of Tweets sent includes advance notice road works and event Tweets alongside live incident Tweets.
We have now completed uploading all the historic data from 2018 -2023 onto google maps which you can find via the links below. Not all of March’s has been uploaded yet, at the time of sending these we may not have entirely completed the previous months but please bear with us, they will be rolled out in the month following together with this email. If you have any queries or feedback, please do not hesitate to contact us at Tmc@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Following on from the latest update of the City Science system where we record our incidents, please be aware that when first opening the application it will now default to only showing you the last 28 days of incidents. We found performance of the controller page was struggling when showing the full history. If you want to revert to the old view, you can use the Timespan dropdown at the top of the sidebar and clear the “From” date (the actual clearing procedure is browser dependent, but it should be along the lines of clicking the date input, clicking “Clear” and then “Apply”).
The Care Together team would like to hear your views on our new approach to day opportunities for older adults (65+) in Cambridgeshire.
An approach has been developed from what people have already told us, but we need to make sure we have considered all the possible affects this might have on people.
This week is Anti-Social Behaviour Awareness Week. Anti-social behaviour (ASB) is an issue that is a focus for our Neighbourhood Policing Teams, as reported by concerns from our communities across the county.
What is Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB)? Defined in the Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003, it is ‘behaviour by a person which causes, or is likely to cause, harassment, alarm or distress to persons not of the same household as the person.’
There are three main types of ASB: · Personal ASB is when someone targets a specific individual or group · Nuisance ASB is when someone causes trouble, annoyance or suffering to a community · Environmental ASB is when someone’s actions affect the wider environment, such as public spaces or buildings
There are many things that are categorised as ASB, including: · Rowdy or inconsiderate behaviour · Littering · Drug use and littering of paraphernalia · Dangerous, nuisance or inconsiderate driving/riding
Have you heard of an ASB case review? An ASB case review can be launched when a victim of repeat ASB has reported it three times and is unsatisfied with the way the reports are being handled. The result of triggering this is a multi-agency case review where local authorities, the police, local health teams and registered providers of social housing come together to review the case. After the meeting, an action plan will be drafted and shared with the victim.
We are urging people to report anything suspicious around cable thefts.
Underground cables, which connect homes and businesses to the phone and broadband network, have been targeted by criminals in locations including the A10 Waterbeach, A1198 Cambourne, Linton, Mepal, Soham, Somersham, Wickham and Wooley. The damage caused often leaves hundreds of people without working phone or broadband for long periods of time. With the rising prices of scrap metal including copper and aluminium, cables are becoming a popular target amongst thieves. They will lift up manhole covers by grass verges or carriageways to access the underground cables often masquerading as legitimate contractors. The plastic sheathing on the cables will then be burnt in fields and the metal inside sold on. We’re working with Openreach to target suspects and areas we believe are at increased risk.
What you can do: 👀 Look out for open manhole covers and be aware of bogus roadworks or suspicious activity around the covers. 👀Look out for thick acrid black smoke and fires in rural locations, this could be thieves burning the cables. 👀Cables are often pulled from the ground and dragged along farmer’s fields in order to cut them up. Be aware of this type of crop damage.
Concerns or information can be reported online, quoting Op Akita. In an emergency always call 999. Openreach also has a dedicated area of their website Report cable theft | Openreach where you can find out more about their work to combat cable theft, along with details about how to contact their security team.
We are hosting our next Northstowe Community Forum on Wednesday 12 July at the Secondary College. Make your way to the main hall at Northstowe Secondary College, Stirling Road, Northstowe, CB24 1DJ. The Forum is from 7pm, drop-in from 6.30pm.
Come along to the forum to find out the latest on the temporary facility. AR Urbanism will also be holding a drop-in on the permanent community building from 5pm to give an update on the design of the building and hear your feedback.
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