Arnold is involved in a summer policing blitz launched by the Home Office.
The town has been named in a list of the Home Secretary’s Safer Streets summer blitz that will see shops benefit from increased police patrols and local action to tackle town centre crime and anti-social behaviour.
Shoppers and businesses will see increased police presence, stronger prevention and enforcement action by police and councils to support safer high streets this summer.
Over recent years street crime has sky-rocketed, with theft more than doubling between December 2022-2024, and there has been record levels of shop theft, up by more than 60% – with offenders increasingly using violence and abuse against shopworkers.
Commissioned by the Home Secretary, Police and Crime Commissioners across England and Wales have developed bespoke local action plans with police, businesses and local councils to crackdown on crime this summer.
These plans include increased visible town centre policing and ramping up the use of targeted enforcement powers against troublemakers – including banning perpetrators from hotspots.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: “High streets and town centres are the very heart of our communities. Residents and businesses have the right to feel safe in their towns. But the last government left a surge in shop theft, street crime and anti-social behaviour which has left too many town centres feeling abandoned.
“It’s time to turn this round, that’s why I have called on police forces and councils alike to work together to deliver a summer blitz on town centre crime to send a clear message to those people who bring misery to our towns that their crimes will no longer go unpunished.
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Nothing worse than graffiti for creating a sense of a town being run down where crime is just around the corner. The state of the car park East of Front St towards the top end of town is a disgrace. Somebody daubed a large tag on a nice clean residential wall at Coppice Gate 3 or 4 years ago and it was never removed. Every cable/electrics box seems to be covered in it. The only area where graffiti is dealt with is the subway on the railway track next to the park, probably only because the council office is so close to it. Council tax has sky rocketed yet the service just gets worse. Two roads in Arnold (including Gedling Road) currently closed for lord knows how many weeks before the holes get fixed.
Funny how gobby Arnold Lads not bragging on this eh?….silence is deafening.
Im proud of this
My say is that this is it is good for our wonderful town as the highstreet will be made safer for the torists who come to see our town and also shoppers who enjoy or B&M big Asda and our Greggs that you carnt get anywhere else in Gedling which is why the police are not bothered about the other towns as waste of money looking after them
Arnold Lad you really do need help if this makes you proud, you should be ashamed of yourself but probably not ?
As the old saying goes Arnold Lad “you can’t put owt where there’s nowt”