PEOPLE are being asked for their views on policing at a series of meetings organised by West Yorkshire Police Authority.
Four meetings have been set up in Huddersfield on Thursday, January 11 at Huddersfield Town Hall at noon, 2.30pm, 6pm and 8.30pm.
The meetings are in response to a consultation document published by the Home Office.
The document, entitled Policing - Building Safer Communities Together, proposes new ways of getting people more involved in local policing.
It includes such things as getting local people elected on to police boards.
But the county police authority wants to establish ground rules first and find out how effective the Home Office proposals will be.
An authority spokesman said that while they agreed with the enlisting the public's help in reducing crime, some of the Government's consultation ideas were `quite radical'.
"It is therefore vital that we give as many people as possible the opportunity to comment on the proposals and put forward alternatives," said police authority chairman Clr Mark Burns Williamson.
