The Sunderland Conservatives are calling for a Crime Emergency to be declared - we are bringing a motion to Sunderland City Council to do exactly that.
You can read the motion here and fill out our crime survey at the bottom of this page to let us hear your views:
Notice of Motion – Sunderland Crime Emergency
Council declares that a crime wave has engulfed parts of Sunderland in recent
months – and that residents increasingly feel a sense of lawlessness.
Reasons for this include:
- Instances of arson, vandalism, drug taking and ASB in Barnes Park in recent
weeks- A worsening situation with off-road and illegal bikes – most recently including the
regrettable death of an innocent woman, Gloria Stephenson- Little progress on tackling speeding and illegal parking, particularly since the
Conservative Group motion calling for action on this matter, including new speed
cameras- Masses of flytipping dumped with no regard for our communities
- Graffiti which blights local areas and feeds into a sense of a society with no rules.
In response to this, Council agrees:
- Senior officers should make tackling ASB, preventing speeding and illegal
parking their number one priority- That the Chief Executive will write to the Police and Crime Commissioner to ask,
on a cross-party basis, for an update to full council, in response to this motion,
and a revision of her policing priorities to enhance policing in Sunderland- The Chief Executive should consider deploying market pay supplements to
increase the number of traffic wardens and ASB/enforcement officers employed
by the council- In all instances of enforcement, the Council should adopt the most punitive
approach that the law allows in each instance it makes interventions.- Introduce Park and Cemetery Wardens as additional resource to tackle these
issues.
