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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Tackling priority and prolific offenders in Mid Devon
Action taken:
A number of individuals across Mid Devon have been arrested, charged and convicted for business crime offences with civil injunctions and criminal behaviour orders also being issued by the courts. We will continue to work with MDDC and Cullompton town council in identifying and tackling those individuals that cause the most harm and nuisance in our community.
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Identifying areas which suffer from the highest amounts of reported anti social behaviour and using a wide range of resources to tackle issues in those problem areas.
Action taken:
We have had a small number of anti social behaviour incidents reported to us in Cullompton and the current number of incidents remain low, with a year on year reduction. We will continue to work with Cullompton town council to respond to reports and further work will be undertaken to highlight how to report ASB incidents to the police and Mid Devon Council. We will also need to recognise the fear of crime and ASB within our local community and understand how we can better reassure the community of the relevant low levels of reporting in comparison to the perceived levels.