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Tuesday 22nd December 2020Tuesday 22nd December 2020

December photo calendar competition December photo calendar competition winner – Lauren Groobywinner – Lauren Grooby

Hello and welcome to our latest bulletin. I am PC Mariusz Foks, one of the response officers here at Boston Police station. I was born in Poland and moved to England in 2006, Lincolnshire has been my home since then. I have been a serving Police Officer since November 2019 and I joined from a non-Police background. I spent my first 5 months doing initial training at Lincolnshire Police Headquarters at Nettleham and then arrived at Boston in April 2020. My current role is to attend incidents when people need immediate Police assistance by calling 999 or 101 in less urgent cases. It means being deployed to variety of incidents across Boston and surrounding villages. That includes concerns for safety of individuals, road traffic collisions, domestic incidents and many more.

We are currently facing some challenging times due to the pandemic and the national lockdowns. This has had an impact on the communities across our County. Our deployments have increased over the past months due to reports of members of the public not adhering to lockdown rules. However, most of those cases are being managed by my colleagues from the Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT). This team consisting of Police Officers and Police Community Support Officers. This has allowed response officers to concentrate on more urgent cases where person’s life is sometimes at risk. One of the opportunities for new officers is to have attachments to specialist teams for a period of time and

I was lucky to be a part of the Neighbourhood Policing Team for the past 9 days. I have been heavily involved in community engagement through that time along with tackling dangerous parking outside schools to assure pupils safety, engaging with homeless persons in order to offer help and advice on how to receive place to live. But also identifying individuals, begging to supplement income and have place to live.

Due to general public increased complaints of drug related offences, the team also concentrates on gathering intelligence and information on drug related criminal activity in the area. I took park in a drug search warrant execution at one of the properties in Boston area. The team was able to apply warrant based on numerous residences reporting suspicious activity in their residential area. That’s why is so important for members of the public to engage with us and to inform of suspicious activity in around their homes and the Town. It is everyone’s responsibility to keep our home safe and we are working hard along other organisations to assure that.

Stay safePC Mariusz Foks

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Boston Barrier flood gate fully operationalThe Boston Barrier gate is now fully ready and working to give an enhanced level of flood protection to over 13,000 homes and businesses in the town. As the centrepiece of the flood scheme, the barrier gate can be raised in just 20 minutes, responding quickly to threats of North Sea tidal surges. Read more here https://bit.ly/34uwACh

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Additional Restrictions Grant now openIf you are a Boston Borough business that does not have a business rates liability and has been mandated to close during the National Lockdown, and have been heavily impacted as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown from 5 November to 2 December, and have not been able to get support through the Local Restrictions Grant scheme, you can apply for the Additional Restrictions Grant (Closed). Read more here https://bit.ly/3reGSjw

Boston Market Boston Market will be open as normal on Wednesday 23 December 2020. Traders have been invited to stand on Thursday 24 and Wednesday 30 December within the bollard area of the Market Place. Boston Market will fully return on Wednesday 6 January 2021. The Boston Market team would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

We will be taking a two week break over Christmas and New Year and the Boston Bulletin

will return on Tuesday 12th January 2021

“A year passed with so much uncertainty for many”I find it hard to believe that we are about to celebrate Christmas, COVID 19 has changed the way all of us work bringing extra tasks around delivering the same jobs and services both at the council and the private sector, the year has passed with so much uncertainty for many in the blink of an eye… a year in which we as an authority have had to make many changes in the ways we work and tough decisions along the way. The New Year I hope will hold more of a reassurance that things are going to get back to some kind of what we call normality in the coming months. The council will hold challenges around budgets, as an alliance I am determined that we will manage our finances well in the face of all that is set before us. We as a council strive to continue to maintain the best of our services we possibly can following the steps in our corporate strategy, for the people, for future prosperity, for environmental awareness and for delivery of high quality services. Over the festive period we all have choices and responsibility. Just because we can doesn’t mean we should. Our actions can have unintended results on the vulnerable and the NHS. As leader of Boston Borough Council, I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a safe Christmas and a Prosperous New Year.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our readers from all at

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FREE parking changes for BostonOn 1st January 2021 Boston Borough Council will be offering 1 hour free parking for all residents and visitors to the town in all Boston Borough Council owned car parks to replace the current 2.5 hour free parking scheme. Read more here https://bit.ly/2WB0RuQ

Village ‘Best-Dressed House’ competition, a sparkling successA village’s Christmas Festivities committee recently organised a Best-Dressed House competition. Swineshead Christmas Festival committee asked for applications through their Facebook page, to enter the competition throughout the village. Read more here https://bit.ly/3rh2ADv

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