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Children's Legal Centre
Telephone Number 01206 873 820 / 0845 120 3747 (Website: www.childrenslegalcentre.com Link to External Website )

Community Legal Services - for Tameside, Planning and Partnership Executive, Legal Services Commission
0161 244 5000 (Website: www.tameside-cls.org.uk Link to External Website )

Crimestoppers
Telephone Number 0800 555 111

Crimestoppers Trust, set up in 1988 is the only UK charity aimed at putting criminals behind bars through an anonymous Freephone number. Callers with information on crime are not asked their name. This anonymity is the key to the scheme's success, because it provides callers with complete safety from any reprisals.

Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority, Moorley House, 26/30 Holburn Viaduct, London EC1A 2JQ
Telephone Number 0207 842 6800

Crown Prosecution Service CPS Greater Manchester, PO Box 237, 8th Floor, Sunlight House, Quay Street, Manchester M60 3PS
Telephone Number 0161 827 4700

The CPS is the Government Department which prosecutes people in England and Wales who have been charged by the police with a criminal offence

Disability Law Service
Telephone Number 0207 791 9800

Legal advice for people with disabilities, their families and carer's

Gay and Lesbian Legal Advice (GLAD)
Telephone Number 0207 837 7324

Telephone legal advice service on all aspects of the law for lesbians and gay men

Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU), The Administrator, Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit, 400 Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester M8 9LE
Telephone Number 0161 740 7722 Fax Number 0161 740 5172 Email Address gmiau@mcr1.poptel.org.uk

The Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) is a publically funded body which offers free and expert legal advice and assistance on all issues of immigration, nationality and asylum. It produces numerous multilingual advice leaflets, pamphlets and books. It is politically active in campaigns against deportation and is opposed to all immigration laws on the grounds that they are racist.

Greater Manchester Police - Lesbian and Gay Policing Initiative

The Greater Manchester Lesbian and Gay Policing Initiative and Greater Manchester Police operate a self-reporting scheme called "Action on Hate Crime". You can find self reporting forms at many places throughout Manchester, especially in the village. The benefit of the scheme is that you can report an incident anonymously or without any contact with the police.

Telephone the Police:

The general non-emergency number for Greater Manchester Police is 0161 872 5050. Speak to a police operator and request that an officer attends your home.

You can also contact in confidence the Greater Manchester Police Lesbian and Gay Liaison Officer for your area.

Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 1111.

A confidential answerphone you can use to pass any information or rumours.We need to know the criminals name, we don't need to know yours.

Call into any Police Station:
Call into any Police Station and speak to an officer on duty who will take down details of the crime.

If the incident occurred in Manchester City Centre you can benefit from confidential police surgeries which are held every Thursday evening (between 1800hrs and 2000hrs) at the Manhattan Showbar, Princess Street, in Manchester's Lesbian and Gay Village

Report via another Agency:
If you do not want to have contact with a uniformed Police Officer you can report a Hate Crime at a place you may be familiar with.The police are setting up lots of local agencies as reporting centres for Hate Crimes, such places as as Housing Offices, Health Centres and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual Organisations. A member of staff will complete the necessary paperwork and forward it to the Racist & Hate Crime Unit at Police Headquarters for allocation to a local investigating officer

Greater Manchester Police Authority, The Clerk to the Police Authority, Salford Civic Centre, Chorley Road, Swinton, M27 4AE
Telephone Number 0161 793 3020/3021 or General Enquiries 0161 793 3143 Email Address info@gmpa.gov.uk

The function GMPA is to ensure that the police force is efficient and effective and accountable to local people. While the responsibility for delivering policing services lies with the chief constable, responsibility for monitoring - on behalf of local people - how well those services are being delivered, belongs to the police authority.

Immigration Advisory Services
Telephone Number 0207 357 6917

Advice and representation at immigration tribunals and appeals. General advice on immigration for anyone who qualifies under the Green Form scheme

Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties)
Telephone Number 0207 403 3888

Advice on civil rights issues including police complaints, public order, privacy, strip-search, censorship, access to personal files; rights of immigrants, lesbians and gay men, mental health patients, prisoners and travelers

NACRO
Telephone Number 0800-0181-259

Promotes the care and resettlement of offenders in the community and community involvement in the prevention of crime

Office of Fair Trading
Telephone Number 08457 224499 08453 002002

Your rights as a consumer Police Complaints Authority (PCA), Police Complaints Authority, 10 Great George Street, London SW1P 3AE

The independent PCA supervises investigations into complaints against police officers. As a member of the public, you can make a complaint about the conduct of a police officer towards yourself if you think you have good reason, or you can complain on someone else's behalf if you have their written authorisation.

Prison Link
Telephone Number 0121 551 1207

Provides advice, support and befriending to prisoners (predominantly but not exclusively African Caribbeans) and their families

Probation Service, Francis Thompson Drive, Ashton-under-Lyne Tameside
Telephone Number 0161 330 3695

Refugee Support
Telephone Number 0207-820-3606

Multilingual counselling and psychotherapy service for refugees and asylum seekers experiencing emotional or psychological distress

Tameside Home Watch Association, Stalybridge Police Station, Corporation Street, Stalybridge SK15 3AA
Telephone Number 0161 856 9566

The Association aims to bring together, as one body, all Home Watch schemes throughout Tameside in order that effective two way communication can be achieved, local issues and concerns be dealt with, and firm partnerships be formed with all the relevant agencies. The aim of the Association and its membership is to help reduce crime and improve the quality of life within our communities in Tameside.

Tameside Racial Equality Council (TREC), 20 Warrington Street, Ashton-under-Lyne Lancs OL6 7JS
Telephone Number 0161 343 3399 Fax Number 0161 343 2424

The Children's Society, Greater Manchester Youth Bail Support Project, Unit 6, Business Centre 380 Chester Road, Manchester
Telephone Number 0161 873 7264 Fax Number 0161 873 7266

Youth Justice Trust, 4th Floor, Cheetwood House, 21 Neweton Street, Manchester M1 1FZ
0161 233 6800 Fax Number 0161 233 6801 (Website: www.youth-justice-trust.org.uk )

The Trust was founded in 1994 with funding from the Home Office. Its role was to act as a catalyst in bringing agencies together to tackle youth crime. Six years later, the Trust has the backing of the Greater Manchester Crime and Disorder Partnership, with funding for core work received from the 10 local authorities of Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Police and Greater Manchester Probation

Youth Offending Team, Francis Thompson Drive, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL6 7AJ
Telephone Number 0161 330 3012

Victim SupportTameside, Chester House, 11 St Peters Street, Ashton-under-Lyne
Telephone Number 0161 339 1190 Email Address info@victimsupport-tameside.co.uk (Website: www.victimsupport-tameside.co.uk Link to External Website )

Local Police Stations

Main phone number for all Tameside Police Stations:
Telephone Number 0161 872 5050

Ashton Police Station Divisional HQ, Manchester Road, Ashton-under-Lyne OL7 0BQ

Denton Section Station, Denton Town Hall, Market Street, Denton M34
Open Monday-Saturday, 9am-5pm.
Closed Sundays and Bank Holidays

Droylsden Section Station, Manchester Road, Droylsden M43 6EQ

Hyde Section Station, Clarendon Road, Hyde
Open Monday-Saturday, 9am-5pm.
Closed Sundays and Bank Holidays

Mossley Section Station, 20 Argyle Street, Mossley, OL5 0HG

Mottram Section Station, Atherton Grove, Mottram-in-Longendale SK14 6JE

Stalybridge Section Station, Waterloo Road, Stalybridge
Open Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm.
Closed Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays

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Page last updated: 13 November 2008