Your Local Neighbourhood Policing Team
Crimes and priorities
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Priority:
Action taken:
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Priority:
Shoplifting, including the Organised Crime Groups from out of area and prolific offenders.
Action taken:
The NH team still deal with shoplifting robustly. We have charged and remanded a prolific offender for 24 offences which occurred in a 10 day spell. We also charged and remanded another offender for 10 offences across Berkshire and Buckinghamshire as well as charged and remanded another offender for 7 shopliftings who had been targeting the same store. We have also issued Out of Court Disposals to several further minor shoplifters as well as worked with our businesses to target harden and identify new offenders in the area. There has been work ongoing around making reporting shopliftings and providing evidence to Police easier for the retailers, which is resulting in more positive outcomes and convictions at court. We have recently had success with identifying two offenders responsible for several shopliftings over the past few months, which they have been charged for.
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Priority:
There are continued issues of Anti-social Behaviour (ASB), mainly youths loitering in large groups at The Bridge Retail Park and surrounding areas. Youths are causing disruption within the businesses in the area.
Action taken:
Officers have been conducting hotspot patrols. There has been ongoing work in partnership with local schools to identify to educate youths around the impacts of ASB on the community. We have also worked with local businesses to assist deterring and reporting ongoing ASB. We have recently utilised dispersal powers to tackle the issues.
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Priority:
Drug use & dealing across the Wokingham Town area, specifically Carnival Pool Car Park, Elms Field, Crown House and the Norreys Estate
Action taken:
We have continued disrupting drug users and drug dealers within the Town Centre and surrounding areas. We have dealt with several persons at various levels, from local resolutions to arrest and charge to court as well as having a number of ongoing investigations. We have also provided education and referrals to rehab and counselling which we hope prevents any other criminality.