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Have your say on local Policing priorities: South Wight team surveys residents

South Wight Neighbourhoods Policing Team (NPT) has launched another Policing Priorities Survey for the Sandown, Shanklin, Lake and Ventnor areas.

In November 2021, a similar survey was conducted in order to enable the team to better understand the issues directly impacting residents, and where the public wanted to see local resources prioritised.

Focus on reducing Anti-Social Behaviour
Based on the responses received, South Wight NPT have been focusing on reducing Anti-Social Behaviour whilst targeting violent offences and drug and alcohol related harm.

Operation Spider was created to achieve this aim, which has already seen success in steadily reducing ASB in the area.

Sharland: Just the beginning of a longer road
Sgt Ben Sharland said,

“We acknowledge that this is just the beginning of a longer road and we are committed to continuing the work to sustain this reduction and continue to tackle these issues in the Bay.

“Statistics and figures are only a small part of the picture and it is really important for us to hear your voices, feedback and concerns, so we are releasing a Policing Priorities Survey for 2023 which will remain open until 12th March 2023.

“If you live or work in Sandown, Shanklin, Lake and Ventnor then please take the time to have your say on local policing. Thank you for your continued support.”

To access the survey, visit the Website.

You can also scan the QR Code

Survey QR Code

News shared by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary, in their own words. Ed

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JamesP
11, December 2013 3:14 pm

I trust this will be going on the CV’s of our ex-beloved leaders Pugh and Beynon, now they are educational ‘consultants’…

Stephen
11, December 2013 4:21 pm

Could the performance or not of these two characters -Pugh and Beynon – be defined as Misconduct in a Public Office. The Crown Prosecution Service offers this definition; The elements of the offence are summarised in Attorney General’s Reference No 3 of 2003 [2004] EWCA Crim 868. The offence is committed when: a public officer acting as such wilfully neglects to perform his duty and/or wilfully misconducts… Read more »

Cynic
Reply to  Stephen
11, December 2013 5:17 pm

No doubt a “Nuremberg Defence” would be offered, i.e. “We were just following orders m’Lord!”

It didn’t work in 1945 either! (By that time the Fuerhrprinzip had died with its progenitor).

Timesup
11, December 2013 4:58 pm

This may be down the the utter hash the Conservatives made of the school ‘transformation’ (ie near destruction), but what the hell are the Independents doing about it beyond issuing the “moving forward” sort of comment they normally do. Enough! Someone needs to start kicking these fing academies arses. Someone needs to take control. Who’s got the guts for it? This is destroying the future of the… Read more »

Chris
Reply to  Timesup
11, December 2013 7:24 pm

Timesup, independence from local authority control is one of the core principals behind Academy Schools – the council no longer have the power to go in and sort them out.

phil jordan
Reply to  Chris
11, December 2013 10:10 pm

@Chris:

……and yet, still yet, the LA is currently held to account over the poor results being achieved (by a ministerial directive no less).
The frustrations expressed by ‘Timesup’ are mirrored by many…including those in the current administration.
Responsibility without any meaningful authority really does spring to mind…

Don Smith
11, December 2013 7:20 pm

Far too many holiday during the year – The six week Autumn break serves no useful purpose at all for the students.

Nice long breaks for the teachers, who can take their extended holidays, and do a little moonlighting on the side.

Chris
Reply to  Don Smith
11, December 2013 7:29 pm

…because nothing good could possibly come from having an extended break from the stress of school life from those in their childhood years could it? What a thoroughly depressing attitude, if anything it should be extended in my opinion perhaps with longer schooldays at certain times of year to compensate.

Don Smith
Reply to  Don Smith
12, December 2013 12:48 pm

Lots of red ticks, I must have hit the nail on the head. Compare our children’s holidays with those in China, Korea and Japan. Their standard of all subjects is much higher, because they spend more time in the classroom; and discipline is paramount. If there was more discipline in our schools, there would be less stress for the teachers. Could some intellectual explain just why our… Read more »

Cynic
Reply to  Don Smith
12, December 2013 2:13 pm

@DS “Compare our children’s holidays with those in China, Korea and Japan. ”

… and then consider the following comparative suicide rates of those aged 15-19.

China 6.2%
Korea 7.3%
Japan 5.0%

UK 4.0%

Don Smith
Reply to  Cynic
13, December 2013 12:59 am

I did not ask for the suicide
rates – I asked someone to justify the six weeks holiday; how do our children benefit from this long break?

Cynic
Reply to  Don Smith
13, December 2013 8:46 am

@DS The comparative suicide rates of the UK, China,Korea and japan was addressing your point and emphasising the impact of educational stresses placed on adolescents at a crucial time in their lives. “Compare our children’s holidays with those in China, Korea and Japan. Their standard of all subjects is much higher, because they spend more time in the classroom; and discipline is paramount.” As to why children… Read more »

mittromneylovesiow
11, December 2013 8:31 pm

I genuinely wish I could make an educated guess as to why the Island’s schools are in such a mess (no pun intended). As a parent with children in the system I don’t know who to believe anymore. On the one hand we have the move to two tiers which appears to have been a total and utter disaster, then we have the ‘privatisation’ with the ‘academies’… Read more »

JUDITH FERRIS
Reply to  mittromneylovesiow
11, December 2013 11:00 pm

At the very least, if you are posting a comment on this site you should be literate. This is not the case above and it is not merely spelling or typing errors. Please do not post unless you are confident you are able to spell and punctuate correctly. Always a good idea but especially when commenting on ‘schools today’. ( Please see above “who’s” instead of whose.)… Read more »

tryme
Reply to  JUDITH FERRIS
11, December 2013 11:15 pm

Pot and kettle….

Good heavens, I would prefer courtesy over grammar every time.

Sally Perry
Admin
Reply to  JUDITH FERRIS
12, December 2013 6:43 am

@ Judith – being able to spell correctly, use apostrophes in the right place or use correct grammar are NOT requirements for being able to take part in conversations here and it is certainly not the place of others to say who can or can’t take part.

BRIAN
Reply to  JUDITH FERRIS
12, December 2013 8:53 am

Ms Ferris, one shouldn’t assume that on each occasion a word is misspelt, the writer is illiterate. It is often the case that: They have been distracted during typing which happened to me the other day. I wished to write “in the throes” but an interruption resulted with “in the thows”. Highly embarrassing for me but hopefully no one spotted it or if they did they were… Read more »

tryme
Reply to  BRIAN
12, December 2013 9:10 am

If we are to reciprocate Judith’s harsh approach, her last sentence is ungrammatical in construction, and she doesn’t appear to understand the layout of paragraphs! But the point is, OTW is not a work of literature. We have no proof readers, it is written ‘on the hoof’; and that spontaneity is one of its strengths. We all make mistakes, and like as not, and amongst friends, it’s… Read more »

BRIAN
Reply to  tryme
12, December 2013 9:20 am

Educashun like aint wot it was innit tryme?

tryme
Reply to  tryme
12, December 2013 9:29 am

Unfortunately, Judith is arguing for the silencing of those who don’t write (or speak?) in an ‘approved’ manner.

Perhaps she was just having a difficult evening and thinks better of it this morning.

Cynic
Reply to  tryme
12, December 2013 9:42 am

Presumably Judith also hates Shakespeare’s works?

All those mistakes in syntax its different syntax, the strange pronouns, verb conjugations and connotations- good heavens, what an ungrammatical writer he must have been!

Language is a living thing, innit? W8 tl txtspk t8ks ovr!
:-))

Cynic
Reply to  tryme
12, December 2013 9:50 am

Ooops! Better correct my post before Judith reads it! Presumably Judith also hates Shakespeare’s works? All those mistakes in syntax, the strange pronouns, verb conjugations and connotations. Good heavens, what an ungrammatical writer he must have been! Language is a living thing, innit? W8 tl txtspk t8ks ovr! :-)) (Sal, why can’t the system give 5 mins or so after posting so that we can edit out… Read more »

Don Smith
Reply to  JUDITH FERRIS
13, December 2013 1:05 am

Judith,

Numbers, up to ninety-nine are written.
Therefore,’8′ should read ‘eight’.
Just trying to be helpful:-)

I do not believe it
11, December 2013 9:40 pm

It is entirely understandable then why two of our very talented friends, with vitally important jobs and two pre-school aged children, have deserted the island to make a home on the mainland where their children will, at very least, stand a good chance of being properly educated. There is undoubtably a widespread corrosive culture infecting the education system on this island and being added to daily by… Read more »

mat
11, December 2013 11:54 pm

Like everything else that is happening on this island by government and some big business, this is a covert attack by OFSTED on our teachers and schools.We have to stand up and fight for our education system and our island culture and we want Cllr Priest to lead on it and we still have to listen to our teachers who are the main force in the schools.… Read more »

Island Monkey
Reply to  mat
12, December 2013 1:11 pm

You can bleat all you like about Gove or OFSTED not being fair, but factually ALL schools in the UK are inspected under this system and it finds ours by far the worst. Pugh-Beynon cannot be entirely responsible, but they did make a the mistake of claiming they knew how to improve Island schools and despite Mr P’s recent protestations in the CP letters pages, we are… Read more »

Cynic
Reply to  Island Monkey
12, December 2013 2:02 pm

@IM “… but factually ALL schools in the UK are inspected under this system” ….. and your evidence that IDENTICAL educational objectives(as opposed to processes) and government policies are pursued by EVERY Ofsted inspector at EVERY school inspected in the “UK” (but see below) at ALL stages of a government is? [BTW, factually, Ofsted does not throughout the UK, in Scotland- HMIe does a similar job as… Read more »

Island Monkey
Reply to  Cynic
12, December 2013 2:38 pm

Evidence? Open your eyes. The same process consistently rates us worst year after year.

Are you suggesting that OFSTED inspectors have it in for the Island? That just isn’t credible.

Cynic
Reply to  Island Monkey
12, December 2013 3:14 pm

@IM …”The same process” Is that not an assumption? Anyway, reread the meat of my comment, i.e. Ofsted inspectors could well be used to promote government educational policies such as move to a two tier system and the imposition of the “academy system” etc. Then consider the Island being used as a politically unimportant experimental lab to try out those policies- a lab that managed by a… Read more »

BRIAN
12, December 2013 10:38 am

As a former college lecturer, I have “suffered” a few OFSTED inspections.There are a factors here which may or may not be of issue. What OFSTED considers to be good or bad teaching changes like the phases of the moon. Thus a school, adjudged to be excellent in one inspection, is found to be inadequate in another despite having the same systems and procedures as in the… Read more »

Cynic
Reply to  BRIAN
12, December 2013 11:02 am

Like all so-called “regulators”, Ofsted is the plaything of the government Education Minister in power at the time.

[Some people suspect that many of the changes forced by regulators actually emanate from a civil servant’s need to be successful in negotiating a “new” policy before being promoted from HEO (an “NCO” in the Civil Service)to Principal (one of the career “officer” class.)

stephen
Reply to  Cynic
12, December 2013 11:18 am

There is also the boy Gove’s agenda of getting the publicly funded sector to become a parody of a 1960’s 3rd tier private school.
Perhaps Gove uses the Blackfriars handbook as his reference in all things educational!

Oh Crikey chaps; Yarooh and I’ve got a short way with fags!

BRIAN
Reply to  Cynic
12, December 2013 4:59 pm

Could be on to something there, Cicero. I hadn’t thought of that and it does explain why OFSTED constantly change the criteria.

greenfiremouse
Reply to  BRIAN
15, December 2013 5:57 pm

OFSTED these days is only an instrument used to convert as many Local Authority schools into Academies as quickly as possible. It has little to do with the genuine quality of teaching. Mind you, OFSTED inspections have probably always been more about politics rather than good or bad education, and it is rather interesting to see who has joined the ranks of OFSTED inspectors in the past… Read more »

Oldie
12, December 2013 5:28 pm

Being an oldie I can remember when the Island had the two- tier system till 1970. Until then in the state sector there were two good grammar schools (Sandown and Newport). Those who didn’t get in went to the local secondary modern No school buses needed – you walked or cycled in. Every town and village had its own primary school. Again, one walked in. The good… Read more »

BRIAN
Reply to  Oldie
13, December 2013 8:55 am

“breaking up into smaller local units” Sharp intake of government breath. Would that mean a headteacher, staff, caretaker and school secretary for every unit, Oldie? I don’t think George Osborne would like that. Economies of scale and all that. Oops! Used that at the end of a sentence twice. Judith alert! Judith alert!

tryme
Reply to  BRIAN
13, December 2013 9:44 am

Not only that, but you failed to use a capital letter at the beginning of your contribution. I am sorry to say that you have failed to reach the standard required, and therefore this facility is withdrawn. Was nice knowing you, Brian!! ;-)

BRIAN
Reply to  tryme
13, December 2013 11:24 am

I would dispute that, tryme as I was quoting from the middle of a sentence. On the other hand you could be correct. Hopefully Judith will give the correct, definitive answer.

tryme
Reply to  BRIAN
13, December 2013 11:36 am

You have a point there, Brian! Perhaps I might have preceded it with dots, “……breaking” [etc], to indicate the missing bit – but hey, there is only one person permitted to adjudicate here! ;-)
Now back to Education…..

Cynic
Reply to  BRIAN
13, December 2013 1:35 pm

Ahem! Freudian slip leading to an elision and typo,tryme?

Did you really mean”Adjudithcate” :-))

tryme
Reply to  BRIAN
13, December 2013 1:54 pm

No I didn’t, but I see you slipped in an ‘h’ of your own, Cicero! Enough’s enough, Judith has made us all go potty here. Let’s get back to our usual unselfconsciousness when posting, or we’ll all go crackers!

tryme
Reply to  BRIAN
13, December 2013 1:57 pm

O, I see what you mean!

Cynic
Reply to  BRIAN
13, December 2013 2:27 pm

Agree! Enough teasing of Judith!

mittromneylovesiow
Reply to  BRIAN
13, December 2013 4:21 pm

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Cynic
Reply to  BRIAN
13, December 2013 4:34 pm

–……..—../ .-..-.-…….-.-../

:-))

ohmy
Reply to  Oldie
14, December 2013 9:58 pm

Oldie,think you might be a little bit wrong,i was at school i the late 40s,brother in the 50s,my children in late 60s and late 70s,it was always three tier,infant,junior,secondary,remember?

Island Monkey
13, December 2013 6:25 pm

All very amusing, but what a shame this most serious issue has descended into farce.

Perhaps Islander’s are getting the education they deserve for their children? Certainly there doesn’t ever seem to be much of an outcry.

Cynic
Reply to  Island Monkey
13, December 2013 7:51 pm

@IM We have taken a direct interest in our grandchildren’s tertiary education and have been able to help them make up for the educational shortfall at A-level they have experienced for the last two years at a so-called “academy”. AS grandparents, we cannot take direct action with the school and have to express our disgust with consistent outcries in VB and OTW blogs over the last couple… Read more »

Cynic
Reply to  Cynic
13, December 2013 8:34 pm

That should read “secondary and tertiary education”

RJC
13, December 2013 7:03 pm

Don’t take this lot as a true cross section of Isle of Wight parents. It is only On the Wight. Most true parents will be up there getting in touch with their councillors not having a moan with half a dozen socially inadequate ranters who think these boards are the savior of all mankind.

BRIAN
Reply to  RJC
14, December 2013 7:59 am

How do you feel at being labelled a socially inadequate ranter then, Cicero?

Cynic
Reply to  BRIAN
14, December 2013 8:38 am

“Sticks and stones…” They hurt only when they come from somebody whose opinion you usually respect,

Island Monkey
Reply to  Cynic
14, December 2013 9:16 am

RJC whatever your insulting opinion of OTW bloggers, they are doing something by engaging in debate.

It seems the vast majority of Island parents are, like their progeny, doing very little. Anywhere else this would be THE issue, direct action, protests on the streets, political meetings etc but the majority of Isle of Woighters seem to be remarkably uninterested and that may just tell us something?

tryme
Reply to  Cynic
14, December 2013 10:10 am

As so often, the abusive characteristics of the ‘ranter’ are readily identified from their own mouths.

tryme
Reply to  Cynic
14, December 2013 10:26 am

…from accusers own mouths.

Don Smith
13, December 2013 7:27 pm

Far too many holidays, and lack of discipline, both at home and in the school. At Medina High they have had to built a wire mesh fence to keep the students from disrupting visitors to swimming and the Gym etcetera’s; at what cost to the tax payer? In my day we told ‘Out of Bounds’ and that was suffice. Teachers should get out of the staff room… Read more »

BRIAN
Reply to  Don Smith
14, December 2013 7:55 am

Spot on there, Don. We should bring back the cane: trousers down, six of the best eh? I recall one of my classmates who was always having the cane. Even at that age, I thought it wasn’t working because if he had it once or twice he would stop – deterrent and all that. It obviously didn’t improve him because he is in jail now.

Don Smith
Reply to  BRIAN
14, December 2013 12:35 pm

OK! Brian; But how many are not in prison? One of my classmates got the cane about once a month, he became a MP, so it is wrong to make comparisons. What deterrents have they got now in schools? None! Expel, send to another school. The cane did no harm whatsoever. Our schools, like society in general have gone to the dogs. As a point of interest.… Read more »

Cynic
Reply to  Don Smith
14, December 2013 12:48 pm

“Bring back National Service and install some discipline – Get the youngsters doing something.”

Aaaarghh! I an agreeing with DS AGAIN! :-))

BRIAN
Reply to  Cynic
14, December 2013 3:22 pm

The last time they had National Service it had to be abandoned. a They couldn’t take everybody who was eligible because they would have nowhere to put them. Even today they are storing squaddies in Germany because they have insufficient barracks here. b All three forces ended up with a cohort of useless, illiterate incompetents who couldn’t be trusted with a weapon or be instructed in anything… Read more »

tryme
Reply to  Cynic
14, December 2013 3:37 pm

Interesting, Brian, setting out points not often aired here in response to the cry to ‘bring back NS’. And they sound convincing to me.

peaceful_life
Reply to  Cynic
14, December 2013 3:41 pm

Akin to the,civilian conservation core, you mean?

tryme
Reply to  Cynic
14, December 2013 3:56 pm

That got me googling Wiki, peaceful_life, and it’s fascinating, (‘corps’ for anyone doing the same). “The CCC was designed to provide jobs for young men, to relieve families who had difficulty finding jobs during the Great Depression in the United States while at the same time implementing a general natural resource conservation program in every state and territory. Maximum enrollment at any one time was 300,000; in… Read more »

Cynic
Reply to  Cynic
14, December 2013 6:18 pm

As an ex-National Serviceman I have to agree that there are elements of truth in some of Brian’s comments. NS-men resented being conscripted and skived as much as they could get away with: the frequent phrase heard was “Roll on Death,Demob is too far away”. Professional servicemen resented conscripts for not being up to the task (in their eyes), although happy to have their backs protected by… Read more »

BRIAN
Reply to  Don Smith
14, December 2013 9:02 pm

One thing I forgot to add re corporal punishment, Don. There was a case for it being illegal in any event. Striking an adult with a stick would be classified as assault and an arrestable offence. How striking a minor with a stick is not an assault I cannot understand the logic. The justification for canning was that the teacher was in locus parentis. In my mind… Read more »

tryme
Reply to  BRIAN
14, December 2013 9:17 pm

If it had been called “hitting children” in all the debates, and not distanced and dignified by the phrase ‘corporal punishment’, everyone would have had a far more vivid idea of what was really going on.

Cynic
Reply to  BRIAN
15, December 2013 9:10 am

In my schooling in religious-oriented schools the worst appliers of corporal punishment were the priests (who used a leather strap with a split end (a tolley or taw) and the nuns (a steel-edged ruler across the knuckles was their weapon of choice.) Thank goodness at least they did not make us recalcitrant children wear hair shirts or spiked bands (cilices)! I am joking, of course, but it… Read more »

RJC
Reply to  BRIAN
15, December 2013 9:10 am

The nippers are lucky they only had the cane. As a 15 year old boy entrant in the navy we had stripes. A punishment that was so severe you were in sick bay for 3 days under observation. This punishment was still going on in the mid sixties. Naturally the MOD deny this really happened.

tryme
Reply to  BRIAN
15, December 2013 10:55 am

With all the criticisms one might have about the swamping of society by social media nowadays, a wonderful thing about it is that now anyone who is online can have a voice, or at least to get access to others’ comparable experiences. Small children and the most vulnerable older people are no better off in that respect, though, but perhaps many more people around them are nowadays… Read more »

peaceful_life
14, December 2013 4:30 pm

Hi, Tryme. Nothing new under the Sun, eh? Consider the fact that we (UK) need around 1 million new highly skilled food producers (of a more horticulturist ilk) in small scale farming and additional tertiary positions from that. Plenty of functional earthworks to be done, soft engineering, land restoration etc etc etc…… Having stuff to do, isn’t the problem. I think the CCC program was implemented within… Read more »

tryme
Reply to  peaceful_life
14, December 2013 6:03 pm

Resources can be mobilised so quickly in times of war, as well as, it seems, with CCC in the 1930s/40s. Also, with the Olympics here. That intensity of purpose would be amazing if focused now on the good of the earth, sustainable food production and availability, wildlife habitats, the connections with people’s physical and psychosocial health. We start the 24th then!

peaceful_life
14, December 2013 4:34 pm

Sorry, my bad,Corps*, yes, thank you for correcting me.

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