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Publication Date:-
2021-08-22
 
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Port of Liverpool RNLI Duck Race

ON Sunday, 19 September 2021, at the Crosby Lakeside Adventure Centre (L221RR), the Port of Liverpool RNLI are hosting their Annual Fun Day, along with:- 'The Duck Race' at 2pm. The Port of Liverpool RNLI Family Fun Day also includes:- a kayak race, RNLI Lifeguards and water safety team demonstrations. After a very hard 2 years, the charity which relies on donations to maintain a 24 hour rescue service really needs your support. By sponsoring a duck, at this event, you will be helping to save lives at sea, and you might be the lucky winner of this year's race!

1st prize ₤100.

2nd ₤75.

3rd ₤50.

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Decade long animal ban for man who threw puppy to the ground

A man who was caught on mobile phone throwing a crossbreed puppy to the ground has been banned from keeping animals for 10 years. Leon Robinson, DOB (23/08/2002) of Bell Lane, Sutton Manor, was sentenced, at Liverpool Magistrates Court, on Thursday, 12 August 2021. The prosecution, brought by the RSPCA, came after Robson picked the young dog up with both hands and threw the 4 month old puppy from above his head onto the floor, with Force, before walking away. The incident was recorded on a mobile phone by a witness and Kyro can be heard being slammed hard into the floor and crying out in pain.

RSPCA Inspector Jenny Bethel, who led the investigation for the animal welfare charity, said:- "I attended the RSPCA's Greater Manchester Animal Hospital regarding 2 dogs that had been seized by Cheshire Police. The video is shocking and very upsetting. Vets found Kyro was sensitive around his back end and was in pain."

The Court heard how vets also found that the young pup had a bump on his head. He was given pain relief and fortunately x-rays revealed he did not have any broken bones. Kyro made a full recovery and was fostered during the Court case so that he didn't have to go into kennels. This meant he received good training and socialisation skills in the most important stages of his life. In addition to the 10 year disqualification from keeping all animals, magistrates also sentenced Robinson to a 12 month community order to include:- 80 hours' of unpaid work and ordered him to pay ₤250 costs.  After 6 months in RSPCA care the puppy, now called Enzo, has been re-homed to a loving new family.

We have seen the footage ourselves and chosen not to run it, as it is shocking to see.  Do you think the law should be made stronger, and jail sentences given for deliberate acts of cruelty, not just fines or community orders, no matter what the age of the offender? Let us know your thoughts by emailing us to:- News24@SouthportReporter.Com.
 


Child arrests by Merseyside Police reduced by 85% in a decade

ARRESTS of children by Merseyside Police have been reduced by 85% over the last decade, figures reveal on Monday 23 August 2021 in another major step forward for a successful Howard League for Penal Reform campaign. Since 2010, the Howard League has been working with Police Forces across England and Wales to reduce child arrests, helping to ensure that hundreds of thousands of boys and girls do not have their lives blighted by a criminal record. Data provided by Police Forces show that arrests of children aged 17 and under were reduced by 13% last year; from 72,475 in 2019 to 63,272 in 2020. This continues a positive trend seen throughout the decade since 2010, when 245,763 arrests were recorded. The impact can be observed nationwide. Every Regional Police Force in England and Wales has achieved a significant reduction in child arrests over the last decade, with all but 1 reducing their arrest rate by at least 60%. Merseyside Police made 1,484 child arrests in 2020. This compares to 1,900 the year before and 10,197 in 2010, the year that the Howard League campaign began. Academic research has shown that each contact a child has with the criminal justice system drags them deeper into it, leading to more crime. This is why the Howard League is working to keep as many boys and girls as possible out of the system in the 1st place.

Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said:- "Every child deserves the chance to grow and fulfil their potential, and we must do all we can to ensure that they are not held back by a criminal record. A decade of success for the Howard League's programme to reduce child arrests has given hundreds of thousands of children a brighter future. Merseyside Police has made giant strides, diverting resources to tackling serious crime instead of arresting children unnecessarily, and this approach will help to make our communities safer. As we begin to emerge from the pandemic, and as Police Forces recruit thousands more officers, the challenge now is to build on this success and reduce arrests still further. Keeping up the momentum will enable even more children to thrive."

9 Police Forces recorded reductions of 20% or more in 2020:- Cheshire (24%); Cumbria (33%); Leicestershire (24%); Merseyside (22%); Norfolk (34%); Nottinghamshire (31%); South Wales (27%); Suffolk (24%); and British Transport Police (22%).

The largest Force, the Metropolitan Police, made 13,599 child arrests in 2020. This was a 4% reduction on the previous year and a 70% reduction on 2010, when 46,079 arrests were recorded. As in previous years, the Howard League asked Police Forces to provide figures broken down by age, gender and ethnicity. Detailed analysis of the data will be published in a briefing later this year. Police Forces achieved a significant reduction in arrests of primary school aged children, both boys and girls aged 11 and under; from 392 in 2019 to 261 in 2020. But the Howard League found no obvious improvement in the way Police recorded ethnicity. There were almost 5,200 arrests in 2020 for which the ethnicity of the child was not recorded.

Child arrest data for each Police Force within England and Wales are shown in the table below:-

Police Force

Child Arrests

2010   2017 2018 2019 2020
Avon and Somerset 7,255  1,342  1,251  1,259  1,029 
Bedfordshire 1,853  943  682  663  568 
British Transport Police  (a)  865  1,160  1,406  1,103 
Cambridgeshire 3,440  821  715  636  639 
Cheshire 1,870  1,025  1,007  998  754 
City of London 273  140  (a)  102  82 
Cleveland 4,367  936  760  819  944 
Cumbria 1,274  554  405  684  460 
Derbyshire 4,194  1,038  994  895  804 
Devon and Cornwall 4,132  895  884  960  1,015 
Dorset 2,310  459  495  594  485 
Durham 3,658  1,009  830  603  581 
Dyfed-Powys 2,307  341  398  388  318 
Essex 7,739  1,923  1,942  2,055  1,805 
Gloucestershire 1,516  649  580  554  515 
Greater Manchester  (a)  3,197  2,799  2,933  2,439 
Gwent 2,503  747  466  594  626 
Hampshire 8,267  3,960  4,044  3,917  3,283 
Hertfordshire 3,948  1,480  1,084 (c)  1,266  1,059 
Humberside 5,751  1,385  1,202  1,402  1,310 
Kent 7,505  2,683  2,070  1,807  1,813 
Lancashire 9,779  1,893  1,826  1,654  1,483 
Leicestershire 3,322  1,129  1,104  1,190  904 
Lincolnshire  (a)  779  745  696  587 
Merseyside 10,197  2,336  2,151  1,900  1,484 
Metropolitan 46,079  17,672  13,791  14,183  13,599 
Norfolk 2,510  1,083  1,374  1,448  955 
North Wales 3,420  1,040  531 (c)  536  475 
North Yorkshire 4,525  1,034  1,077  1,065  905 
Northamptonshire 2,594  880  918  777  629 
Northumbria 11,407  2,440  2,136  2,092  1,833 
Nottinghamshire 5,743  1,466  1,357  1,220  841 
South Wales 5,659  1,820  1,728  1,842  1,337 
South Yorkshire 6,235  1,302 (b)  1,236 (c)  1,465  1,320 
Staffordshire 4,163  1,081  1,105  1,093  208 (b) 
Suffolk 3,716  903  1,034  1,120  852 
Surrey 1,955  730  751  778  774 
Sussex 5,779  1,893  1,766  2,015  1,858 
Thames Valley 8,012  2,482  2,525  2,361  2,242 
Warwickshire 1,419  447  411  511  505 
West Mercia 5,491  805  655 (b)  1,052  887 
West Midlands 14,387  4,674  4,049  3,960  3,431 
West Yorkshire 12,947  3,953  3,697  3,577  3,270 
Wiltshire 2,262  1,447 (c)  1,254 (c)  1,405 (c)  1,261 

TOTAL

245,763 79,681 (c)  70,989 (c)  72,475 (c)  63,272 
Key:-
[a] Data unavailable.    [b] Incomplete data provided.    [c] Updated from previous briefings after revised data provided.

 

 
      
 
   
 
 
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