To Police Commissioner Caroline Henry,

We are writing today asking for you to consider our petition to help provide our local area and community with more adequate safety measures and to bear pressure on the government to level up on Crime Prevention and Community Safety funding particularly in the local Gedling area. 

One particular area of concern is in the Arnold area and the local Killisick Park. On Friday January 21st there was an unprovoked attack on a local resident just after dark which resulted in severe facial injuries. A similar unprovoked attack happened earlier in the year to a woman walking from work in the afternoon very near to the park.  

As a community, if you want to walk your dog, go running, or cross the park to get home or to local destinations you are faced with unlit or poorly lit paths with sporadic lighting particularly at the lower and far ends of the park. 

As a community we have welcomed the recent improvements to the playground facilities at the park however we believe that appropriate lighting needs to be put in place to complement any new CCTV installation. This would in turn make the park safer for people of all ages including children and young people who use the park and will deter anti-social behaviour and litter.

We call upon you today - as the Nottinghamshire Police Crime Commissioner to provide our local area with more community safety measures and to bear pressure on the government to level up on Crime Prevention and Community Safety funding.  This will help us in ensuring that Nottinghamshire County Council, Gedling Borough Council and Nottinghamshire Police have adequate funding to provide more police on the beat, invest in more lighting and where necessary CCTV and community safety programmes to help prevent crime in the local area. 

On behalf of Gedling Community 

District Councillor Henry Wheeler, Nottinghamshire County Council & Naomi Bradford, Gedling Borough Community Resident