Make Sure You Are On The Electoral Register

More conflicting Police figures
Latest figures released have shown complaints against Northamptonshire Police officers have risen again despite a drive to improve confidence in the performance of the force. A report to Northamptonshire Police Authority's performance monitoring committee has shown there were 464 complaints against officers in the past six months, up by more than a third compared with the same period the year before. Complaints of neglect of duty rose by more than 50 per cent. In Northamptonshire West, which includes Northampton, Daventry and Towcester as well as the south of the county, there were 210 complaints made against officers. The police have invested significant time and money in propaganda to improve confidence following the introduction of a new Government target after a survey of residents found six in 10 people were unhappy with the work the force was doing to combat anti-social behaviour. However, the British Crime Survey reveals that 46.1 per cent of people said they strongly agreed or tended to agreed to the question about whether the Northamptonshire Police were dealing with crime and antisocial behaviour from July 2008 to June 2009, a 6.2 per cent increase from the same period the previous year. So the propaganda is working but more people are complaining!

Northampton attack
A 16-year-old girl has been assaulted and racially abused in an alley in Northampton at about 5.15pm on Thursday October 22. The girl was walking along the alleyway between Kettering Road and Greenfield Avenue when she was approached by a man and a woman in their early 40s. The man hit the girl with his elbow on her back and racially abused her. There is no mention of the nationality of the perpetrators or the victim. I've said it before and I'll say it again, the British National Party condemns all violent assaults regardless of the race, colour or creed of the victim. There is no place in civilised society for attacks on people because of the colour of their skin.

Vote early, Vote often
Northampton Borough Council are sending out canvassers to visit 25,000 properties over the next few weeks to ask residents to confirm information about who lives at the property. People who have not returned their voting registration form to Northampton Borough Council are the ones that can expect a knock at the door. Canvassers will be calling at houses to ask residents to confirm information about who lives at the property, their nationality and also to acquire a signature. In the borough of Northampton there are 95,000 properties, which the council must confirm occupants for in order to make up the electoral register. So far 69,615 (73.7%) of all properties have confirmed occupancy details by returning their registration form through the post (47,440), on the automated telephone system (11,242) or via the Internet (11,933). Telephone and online registrations have increased slightly and postal returns are down by 4,000 on last year but this is considered to have been affected by the postal strikes. If you have not returned your information to your local authority, wherever you are in the county, please do so or you may not be eligible to vote in the General Election which could be called at any time before next June. It is likely this is a government led drive to get as many new migrants to the country on the electoral register as possible. One only hopes that checks are made with the Immigration department that the names that are being taken are entitled to be here and are eligible to vote in elections.