Children help to clean the streets

4:10am Tuesday 14th October 2008

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School children in Shipley have been playing their part in the first day of action during Not In My Neighbourhood Week.

They joined forces with Bradford Council’s neighbourhood wardens yesterday to pick up litter in the streets around their school, High Crags Primary, in Pratt Lane.

Bradford Council clean teams also cleared up grot spots and blocked gulleys and the graffiti removal team homed in on a skatepark in Shipley.

Neighbourhood manager Jonathan Hayes said the day of action in Shipley had been very successful. It’s been great and really good to see all the different agencies working together.”

Further action will be taken this week in Wyke and Great Horton.

Elsewhere, police made at least 13 arrests yesterday in a crackdown on crime in Holme Wood and Wyke.

Neighbourhood Policing Team officers executed outstanding warrants and arrested suspects on the first day of national Not In My Neighbourhood week.

During the policing operation eight people who had failed to pay outstanding fines were detained.

A 41-year-old man was arrested for cultivation of cannabis. It followed a raid by drugs squad officers in July at a townhouse in Thornroyd Drive, Holme Wood, when a sophisticated cannabis factory was discovered, along with cannabis plants with a street value of thousands of pounds.

Other arrests included one for assault, two for criminal damage and a 29-year-old woman for racially aggravated abuse in a public place.

Police worked with court fines enforcement officers during the day.

Officers were also monitoring a knife arch, the city’s newest knife crime deterrent, which was installed yesterday afternoon at Bradford Interchange.

Neighbourhood policing officers were working with Bradford Council and Horton Grange Neighbourhood Watch on a day of action.

And NPT officers for Queensbury Royds and Wibsey were last night working with anti-social behaviour teams in Jer Lane and Ascot Drive to seek information from residents after repeated reports of misbehaviour at flats and near to Jer Lane cricket club.