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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1. Violence Against Women and Girls, ENTE & Licensing
• Increase police visibility in the evening and night time economy (ENTE) - early evening engagement Friday and Saturday evenings by Neighbourhood Officers.
• Improve engagement with licensed premises to develop intelligence and partnership working
• Continue our partnership work around Project NightEye based intelligence, with early use of civil orders or Sexual Risk Orders. This targets our most prolific offenders within the night-time economy area.Action taken:
Every Friday and Saturday evening we stand up our Nightime Economy Policing Operation. This includes officers being deployed on foot in the Union Street area. There will also be licensed premise visits as well as plain clothes patrols in areas of concern.
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2. Drugs and Serious Organised Crime
To identify areas where drug use occurs, and identify those involved in both the supply and use of illegal drugs.
To support our communities by providing high visibility reassurance patrols and engage with our communities to identify their concerns and gain intelligence.
To engage with our schools and other learning establishments to provide support to them and their pupils.
To work with our Police colleagues, councils and other organisations to identify specific areas or persons of concerns and have a proactive response to preventing offending.
To undertake regular pro-active work in the form of plain-clothes patrols and Misuse of Drugs act Warrants.This work ties in with the current Clear-Hold-Build project being conducted in Stonehouse.
Action taken:
The local neighbourhood team are conducting pro-active patrols in response to community intelligence. This is both overt and covert and is aimed at targeting drug supply in the Stonehouse area.
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Anti-Social driving and noisy vehicles will be targeted in the Stonehouse area, in particular MILLBAY ROAD.
Action taken:
The Community have raised concerns over speeding vehicles on MILLBAY ROAD, and noisy exhausts from cars and motorcycles late at night. The Neighbourhood Policing Team will work with our Roads Policing Colleagues and the Camera Safety Partnership to deal with motorists speeding and enforce any Construction and Use offences.