Call 101

What happens in Thirsk at night? I’m not thinking of the “night economy” of pubs, clubs, restaurants and the odd cocktail bar, or the meetings of enthusiasts for history or model railways, or even the ever-so-slightly tedious meetings of local councils or churches. I am thinking of the little acts of vandalism or unpleasant behaviour that the police class as “collective harm”, little things that make life unpleasant by their repetition.

Local resident Karen Botterill felt that there was an undercurrent of bad behaviour locally and that there was no connection between residents, police and councillors, and managed to arrange a public meeting for local people, particularly shopkeepers, and some councillors, with a panel of Police Inspector Dave Allen, Will Naylor the Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner and Gina Allen of Hambleton District Council’s Safer Hambleton programme….