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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The St Austell Neighbourhood Policing Team are committed to working with partner agencies and the community to tackle anti-social behaviour (ASB).
ASB is conduct that causes (or is likely to cause) harassment, alarm or distress to persons not of the same household of the offender.
Please if you do witness an ASB incident, report it to us at the time it's taking place, this will provide us with the best opportunity to identify the persons concerned and take appropriate action with our partner agencies.
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The St Austell Neighbourhood Policing Team along with the Neighbourhood Support Team (NST) have attended public events such as Mevagissey Feast week to provide a high visibility policing presence to reassure the public and deter ASB. The public can expect to see further police presence at other public events over the coming months.
The St Austell Neighbourhood Policing Team with support from the Police Drone Team conducted a recent operation to target those illegally riding dirt bikes, e-bikes and e-scooters. A number of vehicles were seized and the riders/ drivers reported for road traffic offences such as driving without insurance or the appropriate license.
The local Policing Team are aware of the publics' concerns of ASB, drug misuse and drinking in and around St Austell town centre. A joint response to this is being delivered by police and partners to robustly deal with those involved.
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With our key partners we are working to safeguard members of the community who are at risk of serious harm by exploitation. Exploitation can take many forms, it can relate to finances, relationships, housing or to being asked/forced to do things for a another that puts a person at great risk of harm.
If you suspect someone you know is being exploited please contact us, we can then work to safeguard them.
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The St Austell Neighbourhood Policing team have executed a number of warrants and are working on obtaining further warrants. These warrants are an effective way of disrupting drug supply in the local area and in turn help to identify and safeguard vulnerable persons who are at risk of exploitation.
The local Policing team have regular partnership meetings to discuss those individuals most at risk and develop clear safeguarding plans and actions to protect the individuals involved.
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St Austell Neighbourhood Team are working proactively to tackle illicit drug use and drug dealing within our communities. Working in partnership we are going to be targeting addresses and locations that evidence suggest are linked to drug use/dealing. The harm that drugs cause to our communities is unacceptable, please help us to address this issue. If you have any information that may assist us please report it to us via our website or via Crime Stoppers.
This has been an ongoing priority for us and we have already executed a number of warrant and taken positive action that has included remanding persons into custody.
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A number of warrants have now been executed which have had positive results including arrests and these investigations are ongoing.
The St Austell Neighbourhood Team are continuing to develop information from the community with a view to obtaining further warrants to keep up the pressure on those suspected to be involved in drug dealing.
Increased patrols with the support of the Neighbourhood Support Team (NST) are being conducted in the town centre to tackle the reports of ASB and drug misuse.