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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Action taken:
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Violence Against Women and Girls – Average population growth with disproportionate large number of students and young people, thriving evening and night time economy, small areas of deprivation.
Action taken:
~ University Lead (PC Newton) continues to provide inputs to students covering drugs awareness, bystander awareness, consent issues and violence against women and girls.
~ Violence against women and girls / associated offences reviewed on a monthly basis.
~ Appropriate intelligence led deployments where required.
~ Increased focus on localised issues and offence series'. -
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Anti-Social-Behaviour – More recently focusing on the themes of street drinking, youth related anti-social behaviour and road related anti-social behaviour.
Action taken:
~ Targeted patrols focusing on 'hotspot' areas highlighted by community reporting and data.
~ Continued communication / engagement with local schools to ensure key messaging to students and their families.
~ All anti-social behaviour logs / reports reviewed on a daily basis by the Sector Inspector to ensure appropriate crime recording and mitigation in place.
~ Significant series offenders reviewed by the Neighbourhood Team with a view to identifying longer term solutions.