Operated by: Derbyshire Constabulary
http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/My-Local-Police/North-Division/High-Peak-LPU/Hope-Valley/Hope-Valley.aspxThis Safer Neighbourhood area covers the Hope Valley, including Castleton, Hope, Edale, Bamford and Derwent. It belongs to the High Peak Local Policing Unit. The Hope Valley neighbourhood is a large rural area. It encompasses the villages of Castleton, Hope, Edale, Bamford, Derwent, Shatton, and Brough, all of which vary in size. This whole area attracts thousands of visitors over the summer months who provide a real boost to the local economy.
Current Priorities
Issue
Speeding & Anti-Social driving Parking
Action
We receive many complaints about this and there is strong concerns about the high number of serious injury RTC’s and unfortunately fatal on the local roads especially over the summer months, due to this we are running Operation Cruiser this summer where there will be more speed enforcement by local officers and from our Roads Policing Team (Traffic). In recent weeks we have issued many tickets with some motorists caught speeding above 80 and 90mph in a 50mph limit. As well as this we will be looking at all other aspects of traffic offences to hopefully deter some from using the local roads as a racetrack. We as a team have been fully aware of the parking issues across the whole of the area for the past few years but can only deal with a limited number of parking offences ourselves. Thankfully, recently other agencies are finally recognising the problem and starting to work together to look at long term and short-term solutions although the numbers visiting the area are very high and will always be an issue. We are in contact with the councils Civil Parking Enforcement Team who issue a lot of parking tickets but please report to them on call Derbyshire 01629 533190 to make them aware of any issues.