Neighbourhood Police UpdatePolice are increasing their patrols after reports by Shepley First School of damage to the school grounds. Police are now calling into the school grounds in the evenings. Police are also concerned about reports of groups of youths congregating in Highburton First School playground, leaving behind a trail of rubbish and damage. The school grounds will now be checked every night to deter vandals. A police spokesman said: If you are a parent in Highburton, please ensure you know where your children are and advise them not to use the school grounds as a meeting place. We will be taking the names and addresses of everybody we find in the school grounds if they shouldn't be there and parents will be informed. If you see any suspicious behaviour or youths loitering around either school grounds, please ring us at Kirkburton on 01484-436898 or 0845- 6060606.

Thanks to information received a green tractor has been recovered and an arrest has been made. Inquiries are continuing. Information is required about two thefts in the Denby Lane area of Grange Moor. The same outbuilding has been hit two weeks running. In the second break in, just after lunch Wednesday March 18 a white flat back truck with a green tractor on the back was seen heading along Denby Grange Lane towards Wakefield Road. Anyone with further sightings of this vehicle please contact Pcso Robert Armitage at Kirkburton Police Station. After a police car was damaged while responding to an incident at Denby Dale Railway Station, inquiries have resulted in a local youth being arrested and subsequently being dealt with for criminal damage.Schoolchildren are getting an insight into the work of an officer after the Kirkburton Neighbourhood Policing Team visited local schools in the area. Wpc Sally Baines and Pcso Sharon Mellor visited Birdsedge First School to teach five and six-year-olds about road safety.

Officers also visited St Aidens First School to give more than 100 children an assembly under the theme of Protecting People. Wpc Sally Baines said the work was to let the children know how the police work, what we can do for them and to encourage a positive relationship.She said: At Birdsedge School the children dressed up in some brand new plastic helmets and high visibility jackets. This helps them to recognise what police officers wear and what their particular roles are. We also used the playground for practical road safety tips. We have lots of road safety activity books and stickers to help get the message through to the children. The class are now producing posters for us which will later be judged by the Neighbourhood Policing Team Inspector Nick Harvey. There are prizes for the winners.