The return of community policing to the north has been welcomed by Ramsey Commissioners.

Local policing was reinstated in January, but was interrupted by Covid-19.

Julia Wedgwood is Ramsey Commissioners’ representative at the bi-monthly community partnership meetings.

She said: ’Community policing is a really good move. We should now be seeing Ramsey-based officers. Major incidents will see them called away, but the north will be policed by officers who know us and are known to us.’

She said concerns were raised at the meeting about the island’s preparedness for students returning from university for Christmas.

Assurances were given that plans were well in hand and the young people would be monitored to ensure they abided by the rules.

There had also been a very interesting report from senior youth leader Nigel Howard which she found very encouraging, especially that Ramsey Grammar School had been chosen as the pilot school for a ’Prison, Me? No Way’ project.

’I think this is something we commissioners should ask about,’ said Mrs Wedgwood. ’It greatly impacts our community and is far more important to the locality than a lot of stuff we wade through’.