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Holocaust Memorial Event
• Straws – a moment on the lips is A shocking 60 per cent of all plastic bottles used in the UK are single-use potentially a lifetime in the ocean, water bottles – that’s 7.7 billion every so refuse a straw unless you really need it. If you do then there are year! Imagine how much waste could plenty of reusable alternatives be stopped if everyone simply used a available to be used on the go. reusable water bottle. Although recycling is great for the environment, • bars – no unnecessary A candlelit parade and ceremony took placeShampoo in it is more important to reduce the chemicals and no plastic bottles! Borehamwood to commemorate Holocaust Shampoo bars last longer, smell amount of waste we create in the first Memorial Day great and are brilliant for travelling. place.(HMD). You can easily reduce single-use moreand switches, a free minute silence, there were also speeches by plasticRabbi by switching to alternatives. Cambodia,For Bosnia Darfur.tips and Mayor of Hertsmere, Councillor Alan a few: digital resource please visit: event,just which took place at Joining the Mayor were pack the Lordthe Lord-Lieutenant of Hertfordshire, the Plancey, led theHere’s • Coffee cups – there are so many the end of January. The candlelit parade Lieutenantwww.wasteaware.org.uk/reusables of Hertfordshire, Mr Robert Voss Mayor and our Leader, Cllr Morris Bright get a reusable coffeeCBE, and a number of our borough MBE, videos, and musical performances went from our carreasons park toto Hertswood incentivesincluded at coffee shops,councillors and officers, local dignitaries from the Immanuel College Choir and Academy, where cup: the ceremony designs and the fact that videos, speeches exciting and musical and residents. The police were once again Christine Bennett performances. you’re not contributing to the 2.5 on hand to support the parade, along with HMD is held every year on 27 January as The event was billion held todisposable remembercups the thrown away Hertsmere Volunteer Police Cadets. this is the anniversary of the day in 1945 As well as the Holocaust Memorial Day when the Soviet Army liberated the largest millions of peopleevery who year! suffered during the Prayer read by the Mayor’s Chaplain, Rabbi Nazi concentration camp, AuschwitzHolocaust, Nazi Persecution and subsequent genocides in Rwanda, Elchonon Feldman, followed by a twoBirkenau.
Managing Director appointment The appointment of our Managing Director, Sajida Bijle, was confirmed in January. The appointment followed a management restructure over recent months to deliver a more cost effective model. Sajida has worked for us for 30 years, performing a number of key roles including Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Director. She has been a Chief Officer since 2005 and is the Company Secretary for the renowned Elstree Film Studios, one of our most valuable arms length companies. Sajida commented: “I consider it an immense personal privilege to have the opportunity to lead this authority as its Managing Director. “I look forward to driving through some ambitious plans over the coming months and years, but retaining our core vision of supporting our communities, planning for the future and being an enterprising council.”
WHAT MATTERS MOST TO YOU? Have your say on local policing via Hertfordshire Constabulary’s new public feedback service, ‘echo’. It allows people who live or work in Hertsmere to tell the police what they think local officers should be focusing on. Hertsmere Inspector Mark Bilsdon, said: “You can use echo to tell us quickly and anonymously what can be done to make your area better and what you think we should be focusing on to make your community safer. “People often post concerns on social media but don’t always report them to us, which can lead to a perception that we’re not taking issues seriously. It is absolutely vital that concerns are reported through official channels like echo, so we can record them and use them to help shape our local policing priorities.” Visit www.herts.police.uk/Informationand-services/Get-involved/echo to submit your views.
Do not use echo to report crime Go online at herts.police.uk/report, speak to an operator in the Force Communications Room using online web chat at herts.police.uk/contact or call the non-emergency number 101. If a crime is in progress or someone’s life is in danger, call 999 immediately. Alternatively, you can stay 100 per cent anonymous by contacting the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or via their untraceable online form at crimestoppers-uk.org. www.hertsmere.gov.uk | Hertsmere News | Spring 2020 | 5
