St Austell Town

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.

Over the past few months a number of warrants have now been executed which have had positive results including arrests and these investigations are ongoing. Patrols have also been increased in areas where we have reports of drug use.

We have made a number of arrests for persons suspected to be involved in the supply of illicit drugs in the St Austell area over the last few weeks/months.

We have plans for further searches of properties and are currently obtaining warrants from the courts. Please keep providing us with information about any suspected illicit drug use and drug dealing as using this information we can target our activities.

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.

The local 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.

We 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.

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.

We continue to respond to reports of ASB, when responding to these calls we are looking to identify the key persons causing trouble, this is to educate them and if necessary deal with them via the ASB process or via a criminal process. We need the Community to contact us at the time when ABS is occurring, this provides us with the best chance to attend when it's ongoing and identify the persons causing it. When ASB is reported after the fact, it can sometimes make it impossible to ID the persons who were causing the issues.

We have recently closed a property using ASB closure powers, as a result of the ongoing ASB report associated with the address, this has resulted in no further reports being made. A number of other people have been issued with ASB warnings or have arrested for the breach of Criminal Behaviour Orders that were originally issued as a result of ongoing ASB caused by that person.

Only with your reports can we take action and combat ASB, please keep reporting these incidents to us.

With our 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.

Thank you to everyone who has contacted us to raise concerns. Using the information from the Community we have visited a number of persons (adults and youths) who were potently being exploited. This has resulted in putting safeguarding in place for these vulnerable people and we have also ensured they have ongoing access to help and support when required. Working with partners such as Social Service some people have even been removed from their current situation which was place them at risk of harm and they have been placed in a new supportive environment in order to protect them.

Please continue to contact us with details of anyone who you are concerned for so we can look to assist them.