Gedling Police inspector Chris Pearson gives his latest update on policing activities that have taken place across the borough over the last month.
It’s been another busy month where we have been focusing on our policing priorities of drug supply, speeding and residential burglary.
Priorities
Drug supply
In terms of Drug Supply, the Neighbourhood Policing team have continued to work
closely with Operation Reacher colleagues to carry out a number of further drugs
warrants across the area.
During October the team executed the warrants at the following locations:
- Coronation Walk, Gedling resulting in the recovery of Class B drugs, weighing scales and drugs paraphernalia
- Calverton Avenue, Carlton resulting in the seizure of Class B drugs (Cannabis), cash and drugs paraphernalia
- Manvers Street, Netherfield resulting in the seizure of Class B drugs
- Incher Mews, Carlton resulting in the seizure of a large quantity of cash and suspected criminal property. This was part of a wider investigation and included the search of an address on Carlton Hill
The warrants were mostly carried out in relation to ‘Operation Thistle’ which is our
proactive investigation into drugs supply in the Gedling South area.
The Operation Reacher team will continue to work with the Neighbourhood Policing team to act on community concerns around drug supply and we will continue to take robust action
around this which will remain a policing priority.
Speed Enforcement
We have continued to receive reports of speeding vehicles across Gedling.
On Saturday, October 10 the Operation Reacher team joined forces with our
Special Constables to carry out a day of action around Speeding and Road
Safety.
The team started their work on the A612 leading into Burton Joyce
where nine motorists were dealt with for a number of different driving offences
ranging from excessive speed to using a mobile phone whilst driving.
The team then moved on to Main Road in Ravenshead where the first driver stopped was
arrested on suspicion of drug driving and insurance offences. The vehicle was
seized and the driver remains under investigation.
Local teams will continue to
focus on the issue of speeding and we are working closely with Gedling Borough
Council around education and an increased Community Road Safety scheme.
Residential Burglary
Burglary across Gedling has reduced by around 41% since the beginning of
April this year. Despite this it remains a priority for us and October saw a
slight increase in offending with 19 crimes recorded compared to 17 in
September.
October saw an increase in car key burglaries around the ‘Gedling
North’ area with overnight offences in Ravenshead, Mapperley, Woodthorpe
and Arnold.
We are carrying out a thorough investigation into these offences
and a 16-year-old male has been arrested in relation to a car key burglary in
Arnold.
Officers also attended to a report of a burglary in Woodthorpe on the
morning of October 23, which resulted in a 29-year-old male being located and
arrested nearby.
Following a car key burglary in Mapperley a vehicle was also
recovered in the City and a male was arrested by detectives investigating the
offence.
There is crime prevention advice available on our website at:
https://www.nottinghamshire.police.uk/advice/prevention
Operation Reacher
It’s been a very busy time for the Operation Reacher team here at Gedling.
The team have continued to work very closely with the Neighbourhood Policing team and this has enabled us to make real progress around our policing priorities.
Maintaining this ongoing activity during the Coronavirus pandemic has been a
real challenge but the results so far are pleasing and there is more to come.
Since the end of January this year the team have:
- Arrested or voluntarily interviewed 97 Suspects
- Seized 45 cars
- Issued 62 Traffic Offence Reports
- Recovered 5 stolen vehicles
- Carried out 31 warrants
- 72 drugs seizures
- Seized £241,000 in suspected criminal money
- Seized 24 weapons
- Generated 142 pieces of intelligence
Incident Updates
I wanted to talk about the incident of disorder in Arnold Town Centre back on
the October 9, 2020.
This was clearly a very serious incident with a weapon recovered and our CID colleagues are carrying out a thorough investigation into the circumstances.
As a result of the police attendance on the night, seven males were arrested on suspicion of Affray and remain on police bail at this time.
I want to be clear that together with our partners we will never accept violence
in our communities and we will do everything within our power to stop incidents
of this nature.
Since the incident we have increased patrols in Arnold Town Centre with the Neighbourhood team, Operation Reacher and force colleagues carrying out daily patrols.
We are working together with our Neighbourhood Wardens, Gedling CCTV and wider partners to disrupt those involved in this type of incident or anti-social behaviour.
This has included detached youth workers in the area of Front Street and we
are now working with businesses to target harden our town centre.
We have also received reports of youths throwing fireworks in Arnold Town Centre. As a
result of this I authorised police dispersal powers and a dispersal zone was set
up in Arnold in order to prevent those likely to be involved in Crime or ASB from
gathering in the area.
I also wanted to mention a Robbery reported at the McColls store on Westdale
Lane, Gedling on the morning of 27th October 27.
A masked male entered the store at around 06:20 hours with a cricket bat and left with takings from the till. CID colleagues are investigating this incident and the investigation is very much ongoing. I’d ask that anyone with information contacts us quoting incident 69 of
27th October 2020.
Coronavirus
I wanted to touch on our continued response to the Coronavirus Pandemic.
We have now moved into another England wide ‘lockdown’.
The Neighbourhood Policing team are carrying out extra patrols in support of ‘Operation Bion’ and we will be working very closely with our colleagues at Gedling Borough Council to ensure that individuals and businesses are working to the latest regulations which can be found on the government website at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/new-national-restrictions-from-5-november
I know this is a very difficult time for all but we must collectively work to the
regulations in order to slow the spread of the virus, save lives and protect the
NHS.
We will not hesitate to deal positively with those individuals who blatantly
disregard the regulations as this puts them others at risk.
Feedback
As ever I’m keen to ensure that we are focusing our time and resources on the
things that matter most to our local communities so I would encourage you to
complete the #WhatMatters survey which can be found online at
www.nottinghamshire.police.uk/whatmatters
I review the survey results every quarter and the feedback will be used to
refresh our policing priorities.
