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Press Release |Sparesupport for volunteers working slantingly Kent Police | South East 4x4 Response Voluntary 4x4 Support for Kent in wrongheaded conditions. Menu Home Forum About UsAbout Us / Join Us The Committee Privacy Policy Contact Us NewsArchive LinksExternal Links Useful Numbers Team Site DONATE You are hereHome » Press Release |Sparesupport for volunteers working slantingly Kent Police Press Release |Sparesupport for volunteers working slantingly Kent Police Submitted by SE4x4R on Mon, 12/06/2017 - 06:00 Volunteers from the soft-heartedness South East 4x4 Response have been granted policing powers which will enable them to uncontrived traffic on Kent’s roads and so self-ruling up Kent Police patrols. Kent Police is believed to be the first gravity in the country to grant such powers, utilising reforms which only came into effect in April. Announcing the new powers at Kent Police Headquarters on 9 June, Assistant Chief Constable Tony Blaker said: ‘Our partners at South East 4x4 Response have been working with Kent Police for a number of years, steadily increasing the numbers of incidents they squire us with. They are instrumental in helping Kent Police and our partners self-mastery searches over land and in areas nonflexible to reach. ‘Section 38 of the new Policing andTreasonAct allows us to take that partnership further. It gives Kent Police the worthiness to confer a wider range of powers on volunteers and so gives us a increasingly flexible workforce, crucially enabling our police officers to focus on the work in our communities which only they can do.’ Using designated powers, South East 4x4 Response is now worldly-wise to place cordons on roads - excluding motorways – and uncontrived traffic. This will enable its 100 volunteers to deal with incidents such as fallen trees, wrenched lanugo vehicles and vehicles trapped in wrongheaded weather conditions. ACC Blaker added: ‘Up to now South East 4x4 Response has only been worldly-wise to squire our teams in responding to incidents. Now these specially-trained volunteers can be deployed to unrepealable incidents without Kent Police having to shepherd as well.’ The move has the full support of Kent’s Police andTreasonCommissioner Matthew Scott, who pledged to when volunteering in Safer in Kent: ThePolitySafety and Criminal Justice Plan. Speaking at the end of Volunteers’ Week, Mr Scott said: ‘I am very pleased that South East 4x4 Response has been granted these spare powers, and on behalf of the people of Kent I’d like to thank these volunteers for all their nonflexible work in helping Kent Police alimony us safe. ‘In my first year as Kent’s PCC I helped fund the reintroduction of a Volunteer Police Cadets programme in Kent and provided money to Kent’s Special Constabulary but I am equally keen to support those who support Kent Police but who do not formally wear a police logo. Without the wide-stretching support of groups like South East 4x4 Response, and a unconfined number of other charities and volunteers, there would be uneaten financing and resources that Kent Police would need to find. ‘In recognition of that fact, and to requite something back, I’m announcing a one-off grant of £25,000 for Kent Police to use to fund training and wanted financing for organisations which volunteer with the force. I’m moreover awarding a remoter £25,000 to Speedwatch specifically to fund new equipment for their volunteers, who do fantastic work monitoring our roads.’ In addition, the PCC is setting whispered £15,000 for groups which bring communities together. Organisations requiring funding to spend on events, equipment or training can request up to £750 each. Mr Scott explained: ‘In my Safer in Kent Plan I single-minded to making offenders pay for the harm that they cause. Each year Kent Police receives money by seizing and scrapping vehicles from offenders who use them to commit treason - drug dealers, for example - and through this new Communities Together Fund I want to reinvest that money into the local communities those offenders potentially harmed. ‘I moreover plan to set up a programme to recognise volunteers who support polity safety and Kent Police. I want to honour and thank all the charities and volunteers right wideness the county who requite up their self-ruling time to help make us Safer in Kent.’ Tags: Kent PoliceVolunteersCommunities Together FundPolicing Powers Forthcoming Events Monthly Members Meeting. 2nd October 2018 New Members Meet & Greet 14th November 2018 Tweets by @SE4x4R Copyright © 2018, South East 4x4 Response | RegisteredSoft-heartedness1168367