Local Policing Team
Our Neighbourhood Policing Teams consist of Neighbourhood Team Leaders (police sergeants), Neighbourhood Beat Managers (police officers) and police community support officers (PCSOs) who are accountable to their local community. A key element of the role is to undertake community engagement to understand community concerns and update them on police activity in order to build confidence.
They will work in partnership with teams both within the police (for example alcohol licensing and youth intervention) and externally (local authorities, Environmental Health and registered social landlords) to problem solve community issues. The underlying principle of our neighbourhood policing model is to intervene at the earliest possible opportunity to prevent an escalation of crime and harm.
Crimes and priorities
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Priority:
Action taken:
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Priority:
Drugs
Action taken:
The Bodmin Sector Neighbourhood Team are proactively looking to tackle issues around illicit drug use and the negative impacts that this has upon our communities. We rely on community intelligence to make the differences that you desire in our communities; so keep reporting directly or anonymously via CrimeStoppers if you want to make a difference!
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Priority:
Shoplifting and Retail Crime
Action taken:
There were 12 reports of shoplifting with Bodmin for July, which is a slight increase in the previous 28 day period of 3.7%. We continue to be proactively patrolling our high footfall areas, and attending locations of commerce to engage with the community and provide high visibility patrols to deter and prevent offending. We will continue to adopt this approach under this priority for the rest of the summer, providing a blended approach of uniformed and plain clothes patrols within our stores to proactively challenge this issue.
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Priority:
Anti-Social Behaviour
Action taken:
Along with attending multiple local events across the summer months, we have put in 42 dedicated foot patrols to Bodmin Town Centre. We have planned patrols of our wider rural beauty spots and villages to maintain visibility across our communities in the coming weeks as our populations swells during the holiday season. If you do see us, then please come and say hello! If you have any issues in your community you can report to us in person, via 101, or online. We take reports of anti-social behaviour seriously and work closely with partners to tackle ASB in your communities.