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Friday 19th April 2024 Sussex Alerts - Lewes and Seahaven Police
Lewes and Seahaven CSW needs you
Help reduce deaths and injury on the roads of your towns and villages.
Community Speedwatch is looking for volunteers to help join a local Community Scheme in your area. 
This is a vital role in helping to reduce anti-social driving and helping to prevent death and injury on our roads, and full training will be given for this voluntary role by Sussex Police.
Community Speedwatch (CSW) is a national initiative where active members of local communities join with the support of the Police to monitor speeds of vehicles using speed detection devices.
Vehicles exceeding the speed limit are referred to the Police with the aim of educating drivers to reduce their speeds.
In cases where education is blatantly ignored and evidence of repeat or excessive offences is collated (even across county borders), enforcement and prosecution can follow.
Find out more, sign up to a local scheme and join online here.
Operation Downsway
 Weekends between April and September, local residents and road users can expect to see an increased Policing presence on the roads of their towns and villages, as our Operation Downsway Spring/Summer campaign gets under way.
Last weekend Officers spent time along The Hollow, South Heighton, Newhaven conducting vehicle safety checks, including those for excess speed.
These checks under Operation Downsway are aimed at not only enforcing but also educating drivers around the fatal 5 driving offences, so named as they are the top 5 contributing factors to both serious and fatal road traffic accidents on the roads of Sussex each year.
Directed activities and checks are driven by public reporting and collision data, and we continue to encourage local residents to report driving related offences to us at the time by calling 101, or reporting online - always call 999 in an emergency/serious road traffic accident.
Operation Downsway continued
Elsewhere on this district, following reports of anti-social driving (ASB) around the Lewes area recently; last weekend your Officers took to conducting various vehicle safety checks around the town in repsonse.
 A number of drivers were spoken to, including the rider of a motorcycle who was issued a traffic offence report (TOR) for not having suitable bafflers fitted (defective exhaust system), and words of advice were given regarding their visor which was not suitable for road use.
As part of checks under Operation Downsway, we also aim to help educate drivers to continue keeping everyone on the roads of Sussex safe.
These activities aimed at both enforcing and educating drivers in the area are driven by both public reporting and collision data; we continue to encourage residents to report ASB and driving relating offences to us at the time, by either calling 101 or reporting online.
You can also help us by filling in this online survey telling us about what’s happening on the roads in your area, and by reporting incidents to the Operation Crackdown website.
In an emergency/serious road traffic accident always call 999.
Action Fraud is warning people to be wary of scammers while searching for the best deals on tickets
 According to new data, £6.7 million was lost to ticket fraud in 2023 in the UK alone. Action Fraud, the national fraud and cybercrime reporting service, has launched a new ticket fraud awareness campaign, warning people to be alert to fraudsters trying to catch out people planning for popular and sold-out events.
How to protect yourself from ticket fraud:
Only buy tickets from the venue’s box office, official promoter or agent, or a well-known ticketing website. Avoid paying for tickets by bank transfer, especially if buying from someone unknown. Credit card or payment services such as PayPal give you a better chance of recovering the money if you become a victim of fraud. The password you use for your email account, as well as any other accounts you use to purchase tickets, should be different from all your other passwords. Use three random words to create a strong and memorable password, and enable 2-step verification (2SV). Be wary of unsolicited emails, texts or adverts offering unbelievably good deals on tickets. Is the vendor a member of STAR? If they are, the company has signed up to their strict governing standards. STAR also offers an approved Alternative Dispute Resolution service to help customers with outstanding complaints. For more information visit star.org.uk/buy_safe. If you think you’ve been a victim of fraud, contact your bank immediately and report it to Action Fraud online at actionfraud.police.uk or by calling 0300 123 2040, or call Police on 101.
Click, Call, Connect
For non-emergency incidents or crime prevention advice, click www.sussex.police.uk, (If you report a crime online, we will assess it in the same way as a 101 call).
Call 101 when you don’t require an urgent response.
In an emergency when life is threatened or there is immediate danger always call 999.
If you are deaf, hard of hearing or speech impaired, you can contact us using TypeTalk on 18000 or by sending a text to 65999.
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