Your Local Neighbourhood Policing Team
The Neighbourhood Inspector has overall responsibility for the entire neighbourhood policing team of Sergeants, Police Constables, PCSOs and police staff. They are responsible for delivering on neighbourhood policing strategies, directing the deployment of the team and developing relationships with partners and key stakeholders to enable the neighbourhood policing team to work effectively.
The Sergeant is next in command and also assists the Inspector. In addition they provide leadership in the development and supervision of the Constables and PCSOs. They too work with the community and other agencies to ensure that the concerns of the community are dealt with by the Neighbourhood Team.
This officer is a Police Community Support Officer. While having no power of arrest, the officer can attend incidents, patrol and reassure, tackle ASB and parking issues, and in Thames Valley will be deployed to deliver our Crime Attendance policy of attending to provide follow up support and contact. They too are also responsible for tackling the concerns of the community.
Police Constables work alongside the community and partner agencies to tackle crime and issues identified by the local community. They work together with PCSOs to be a visible presence in the local area and build trust and confidence by developing a detailed understanding of the community.
Police Constables work alongside the community and partner agencies to tackle crime and issues identified by the local community. They work together with PCSOs to be a visible presence in the local area and build trust and confidence by developing a detailed understanding of the community.
Crimes and priorities
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Priority:
Action taken:
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Priority:
Anti-social behaviour (ASB)
Action taken:
We continue to tackle isolated incidents of anti-social behaviour as well as more entrenched issues such as anti-social use of off-road motorbikes. This week we have seized 4 such bikes and reprimanded the riders. We have identified key areas for demand reduction and are working alongside statutory and third-sector organisations in order to tackle long-standing problems. We are committed to dealing with the issues that the community raise to us and develop a large quantity of intelligence to target areas of high threat and risk. We amend our patrol areas in line with community feedback and endeavour to use tools such as stop and search to disrupt and prosecute drug dealers. This month we have issued a number of Community Protection Warnings and Notices to some of our worst offenders.
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Priority:
Knife Crime
Action taken:
We continue to target key offenders, habitual knife carriers and members of County Lines drugs gangs across the district, disrupting their behaviour and making it clear that we have a zero tolerance approach to knife enabled crime. We continue to support educational establishments in highlighting the dangers of carrying knives and the associated offences that may be being committed. We are developing intelligence in order to carry out warrants under the Misuse of Drugs Act and continue to reach out to the community to share information on local offenders and those travelling into our sector to commit crime. This month we assisted in the arrest of several persons involved in a violent robbery.
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Violence Against Women and Girls
Action taken:
We continue to regularly patrol those areas of most concern to the community, particularly open spaces, parks and town centres in order to keep women and girls safe, not just at night but throughout the day. We have been working with some of our most vulnerable girls, educating, signposting and disrupting exploitative activity aimed at them. We have been engaging with local schools and colleges in order to support staff in highlighting dangerous, misogynistic behaviour as well as highlighting tell-tale signs of exploitation. We also continue to target the most harmful Domestic Abuse offenders. This week we assisted in the arrest and remand of a High Risk Domestic Abuse suspect for offences of assault, threats to kill and threatening persons with a knife