Bohemia Village Voice

By Edward Preston

The meeting of the Bohemia Area Association in July, was quite a lively affair and fairly well attended, largely due to the attendance of two police officers, who had come to answer questions about Bohemia.

It emerged from a question by Rev. Michael Ward that the police are divided into Neighbourhood police and Response police. The former work in liaison with the locality and deal with on-going problems, whereas the latter deal with emergency calls. It was acknowledged that closer co-operation between the two would be of value.

Vic Chalcraft observed that since telephone calls are handled by the call centre at Lewes, where there is little knowledge of the Bohemia area, delays could arise. Subjects discussed ranged from drug-dealing to parking on pavements, cycling on pavements and other anti-social behaviour, as well as matters which are more the responsibility of the council. However, County Councillor Trevor Webb, being in attendance, duly responded and took note of such.

The police commented that although sometimes response to some offences might appear rather tardy, much work was being done behind the scenes, and dealt with covertly for obvious reasons when it came to drug dealing, etc.

On the whole, they reported that Bohemia was considered to be a good area, as actual crime, such as burglary, was low.

Edward Preston