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Heywood Patrols - Safe4Summer
The initiative is part of the Government’s mission to restore and strengthen local policing in communities and reduce or prevent anti-social behaviour (ASB). As part of this, there will be a greater visibility of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officers and partners as we work together across crime hot spot areas.
Kate Green, Deputy Mayor for Safer and Stronger Communities, said: "We’re determined to ensure Greater Manchester is a safer place for everyone. The Safer Streets Summer Initiative is a testament to our dedication to reducing crime and enhancing the quality of life for our residents.
“By continuing to work closely with our communities and partners, we aim to create an environment where everyone feels safe and can enjoy not only the summer but all year round and every year. We’ll be working hard to ensure our town centres are safe and welcoming for all.”
Assistant Chief Constable Matt Boyle, GMP’s lead for Local Policing, said: “Our neighbourhoods are negatively impacted by various crimes such as the illegal use of e-bikes, drug dealing and other ASB.
“As a force, it’s our mission to listen to our community’s concerns and take action where crime is committed. Our proactive approach to tackling neighbourhood crime has meant that since 2021, we’ve reduced burglary by a third and vehicle crime by a quarter, thanks to the dedication of our local neighbourhood teams, working closely with partners across the region.
“Over the summer months, they will be focusing on increasing engagement with our communities to listen and respond to their concerns. Residents and business owners will also see an increase in the visibility of officers and partners, as we work together to ensure a safe summer for all. This isn’t about trying to spoil people’s fun over the summer months, it is making sure everyone can enjoy themselves without feeling unsafe or being hurt.
“We welcome the Home Office initiative, which perfectly aligns to the neighbourhood policing model our force implemented locally two years ago. Safe4Summer is the perfect opportunity to highlight the strength of our partnerships in Greater Manchester, and our determination to minimise crime and disorder and to ensure Greater Manchester is a safer and more desirable place for all.”
TravelSafe Partnership Manager at Transport for Greater Manchester, Kate Green, said: “While the vast majority of people using the Bee Network do so safely and responsibly, we know that crime and anti-social behaviour increases over school holidays, and that is not something we will tolerate.
“We work hard every day to keep people safe, whether that’s through our engagement programme or the many proactive operations that take place. We will have an increased presence across the Bee Network to prevent and deter incidents, helping people to travel and enjoy their summer safely and with confidence.”
In 2023, Greater Manchester Police made a commitment that every district ward has a named local police officer, and we would keep communities informed through our use of the community messaging service, Bee in the Loop, which provides the latest news on events and incidents straight to your email inbox.
In April 2025, we welcomed the opportunity to further strengthen our neighbourhood offer, with an increase in numbers of neighbourhood officers by 176, to help GMP to continue to deliver in tackling crime and working with partners and communities to keep our streets safe.
To receive free direct email alerts about how your Neighbourhood Policing Team is keeping your area safe, sign up to Bee in the Loop - www.beeintheloop.co.uk.
To report crime in your neighbourhood, contact the police via LiveChat at www.gmp.police.uk, or by calling 101 or dialling 999 in an emergency.
This is the infamous dung fly 'rodeo' - a well documented pre-copulatory mate guarding behaviour that most sepsid flies exhibit. This is the generalised summary:
Sepsid males wait near oviposition sites, eg fresh dung, and jump on any female that appears. The females usually copulate away from such sites, thus she will be a non-virgin and there to lay fertilised eggs. Due to physiological limitations, the female must complete oviposition before she can accept another spermatophore. Thus there is no attempt to mate, the male simply guards her while she lays her eggs. After this she walks away from the oviposition site, with male still holding on, and then begins the violent bucking and shaking in order to try and dislodge the uninvited male. Where a male is strong enough to hold on, the female finally submits and mating can occur. This ‘rodeo’ can last for some time – beyond 20 minutes has been observed in one species. Sepsid males who engage in this mate guarding have evolved opposing ridges and bristles/spikes on their fore tibiae and femora which help them clamp to the females' wing bases (see male pic below).
This couple look to be Parapalaeosepsis plebeia, the only common dung fly in Tasmania. Filmed in Hobart late October 2009 on a handycam.
This is a fantastic document held in a beautiful watermill in Northumberland. The signing of contracts is thought to be a new innovation to get everyday people to live up to the behavioural standards needed in transactions (see school behaviour contracts, financial saving contracts, etc, etc).
Well it's not.
Feel free to refer to this in any presentations you need - this is a Creative Commons photo. I can see this in quite a few powerpoints ;)
Madeline Gannon, Research Fellow, Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Cultural Leader captured during the session: Being Human: Behaviour at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, People's Republic of China 2018.Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary
American Robin - feeding behaviour
Turdus migratorius
Corn Creek, Nevada, USA
November 9 2010
Distribution: avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&avibaseid=D77...
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I was up at one of our local churchyards for my walk this morning when I noticed this female Mallard.
She was quacking away and then flew up into a hole in a tree, if she's nesting there I worry about the babies when they hatch.
The pond is just across a fairly busy road if they try to get there.
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Governments around the world are drawing on behavioural insights to improve public policy outcomes: from automatic enrolment for pensions, to better tax compliance, to increasing the supply of organ donation.
But those very same policy makers are also subject to biases that can distort decision making. The Behavioural Insights Team has been studying those biases and what can be done to counter them, in collaboration with Jill Rutter and Julian McCrae of the Institute for Government.
The report was launched with remarks from Alex Chisholm, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy.
Dr Michael Hallsworth, Director of the Behavioural Insights Team in North America presented the key findings.
The findings, their relevance to policy making today, and what they mean for the way governments make decisions were discussed by:
Polly Mackenzie, Director of Policy for the Deputy Prime Minister, 2010–15 and now Director of Demos
Dr Tony Curzon Price, Economic Advisor to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
The event was chaired by Jill Rutter, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.
#IfGBIT
Photos by Candice McKenzie
Madeline Gannon, Research Fellow, Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Cultural Leader captured during the session: Being Human: Behaviour at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, People's Republic of China 2018.Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary
"You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realise that you control your own destiny." Albert Ellis (via Twitter twitter.com/kimfishercbt/status/719221855517818881)
The owner put her arm in a tiger's mouth, then encouraged participants at her "close encounter" to stick their hands in front of the tiger's face to be licked. (Siberian Tiger Conservation Association, OH) Copyright Born Free USA/R&D
We have implemented a flocking behaviour for the Birds which the user can see in the second univers.
We used the flocking system Boids developped by Craig Reynolds in 1986. We have studied some others implementations like the one from Daniel Schiffman on #Processing or the one from Robert Hodgins on #Cinder, then we try to create our own version using C#.
We also add others behaviors like a focus behavior and obstacle avoidance. Each agent can only focus on a limited number of neighbors. If the agent had reach its max of neighbors he ignores others agents which could enter in its field of view
Katherine Kinzler, Associate Professor, Cornell University, USA captured during the session: Being Human: Behaviour at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, People's Republic of China 2018.Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary