Friday 11 May 2012

STOCKTON AND THORNABY POLICE STATIONS PROMOTED SAFETY FOR ETHNIC MINORITY GROUPS Part 1

The Regional Refugee Forum has been responsible for the empowerment and awakening that helped to bring Dasuk to positively engage with Local Police in Stockton and Thornaby. The Independent Police Authority encouraged the Dasuk leadership to take it as their duty to bring to the attention of police all the people who were responsible for anti social behaviour targeted at people seeking sanctuary. DASUK managed to bring to the attention of Stockton and Thornaby Police Stations the sources of racial abuse and other anti ethnic minority attacks. It is in the interest of all people seeking sanctuary to know that after making the positive effort to talk and work with the Police Teams in the Stockton and Thornaby areas. Dasuk enjoyed positive response and support from the two police stations that we were working with. Monthly talks were suggested with the police as means to evaluate and monitor the effort of the front line response officers' handling of the issues of racial abuse and other anti social behaviours aimed and ethnic minority.
The police offered incentives in encouraging the people who felt threatened by those that engaged in racial abusive behaviour and other threats. After a series of constructive engagements and talks led by the Police the hot spots for racial abuse and attacks have turned into very calm areas and no more harassment was experienced at the levels things were before this issues were brought to the attention of the Stockton and Thornaby Police stations.

Dasuk acknowledge and applauds the professionalism and dedication shown by the Police leadership we worked with. We in Dasuk would like urge other Police Stations in the North East Region to emulate the practical example by Stockton Police Station front line response officers and their leadership supported by Thornaby Neighbourhood Police.
We encourage many ethnic minority groups and people seeking sanctuary for feel free to express their social and other anti-social behaviours aimed at racial hatred and abuse.
We also thank the Independent Police Authority who took the initiative to engage Dasuk and Stockton Police Station supported by North East Refugee Forum based in Middlesbrough.

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