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Inspector Chris Pearson: February update from Gedling’s neighbourhood policing team

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Chris Pearson is inspector for Gedling’s neighbourhood policing team. His officers help uphold the law across the entire borough. Here he provides an update on policing activities in the area…

New shift patterns

Firstly the local Neighbourhood Policing teams across the force have now moved to a new shift pattern. This will allow us to have a real focus on our priorities.

I have already seen the benefits of this with a greater number of officers on duty at the weekends for example in order to increase our proactive work and respond to reported incidents. There will always be one of the local teams on duty at a time giving greater coverage across the Gedling Borough.

I’m hopeful that this approach will lead to further reductions around crime and anti-social behaviour. We continue to be supported by a team of Special Constables and our Neighbourhood Warden colleagues.

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Knife Crime

Knife crime continues to be a real community concern and I know that there have been two further knife incidents reported in the media. The first was on Coppice Road in Arnold and the second a knife incident in Daybrook.

We have made arrests and investigations are ongoing. If you have any information that might assist with our enquiries then please get in touch.

I want to reassure you that we are doing all we can to address this issue locally and across the force. This type of behaviour will simply not be tolerated. Our Local teams have been continuing their proactive work in order to identify and deal with those individuals carrying knives and weapons on the streets and we are supported by resources from across the force.

We are working closely with partner agencies in order to deter those carrying or thinking of carrying knives. Education is also a large part of this and our schools officers are working with local academies to provide education as to the dangers.

Going forwards I have been successful in a funding application to purchase equipment to help with detecting weapons on our streets and I hope to report on that shortly.

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As ever if you have concerns about an individual carrying a knife or other weapon then please let us know or consider reporting it to us through ‘Crimestoppers’.  I would really like to prevent individuals from carrying knives on our streets and as I’ve said before we will be very robust in our approach to that.

There is lots of advice on our force website under the ‘Knife Crime’ section. This also talks about the #livesnotknives campaign which we are supporting.

We are also to support ‘Operation Sceptre’ again this year which is a national knife crime operation. I’ll talk more about that next month but it will see us engaged in even more activity around knife crime.

I will of course keep you updated around this issue and I am grateful for the support we have received.

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Priority Crime/Overview

Sadly on January 24, a burglary was reported on Dalton Drive in Arnold. The victim is 91 years old. His property was entered and searched by two men who demanded money before leaving the house empty handed. This investigation is very much ongoing but I would urge anyone with any information to contact us quoting incident 743 24/01/2019 or contact Crimestoppers.

We are continuing to support the victim and we have increased patrols in the area to reassure the community. I would urge you all to be vigilant and to consider any vulnerable neighbours particularly at this time of year.

Burglary continues to be a priority for us and I know that local teams are working alongside our County Burglary team to try and reduce these offences.

We are running ‘Op Kinkle’ which has focused on Burglary offences particularly in the Porchester and Colwick areas. This has involved late night patrols with assistance from Neighbourhood Wardens and I’m pleased to report that 3 x maleshave now been charged following a burglary prior to Christmas and they will appear in court later this month.

Over the last year we have seen some really good reductions around Burglary across the Gedling Borough.

We have also seen some reductions around autocrime. We are conducting high-visibility patrols linked to Op Kinkle. A number of arrests have been made around autocrime and I will update you once those investigations are complete.

Please remember to consider your home security arrangements and ensure that doors/windows are locked and that security alarms and lighting are used.

We have seen a rise in Shed and Garage burglaries particularly across the Colwick area. We have put extra patrols in place and officers have been reviewing CCTV footage in the area. A number of items have been stolen such as power tools and pedal cycles.
We have circulated the following advice around securing shed’s and garages:

We have seen an overall reduction in Shop Theft across the Gedling Borough and we will now be focusing on Criminal Damage and Anti-social behaviour going forwards.

We have made a small number of arrests following Anti-Social behaviour in Arnold town centre and we will continue to take positive action to reduce this type of behaviour.



Engagement

You may have seen some of our Special Constabulary colleagues out in Arnold and Netherfield over the last few weekends. They have carried out a number of engagement events to gain community feedback. They have also taken the opportunity to publicise the Cadet scheme and I would urge you to have a chat with the officers if you have any concerns.

Roads

Unsurprisingly we have dealt with an increased number of road traffic collisions across the Gedling Borough throughout January.  Please take care on the roads particularly during the cold, unpredictable weather and leave extra time for journeys.

Sadly we are continuing to see drink drive cases reported across Gedling despite the Christmas drink drive campaign. We will continue to take positive action and track down those who are putting themselves and other road users at risk.

On another note I met with the fire service this week and we are looking at ways that we can jointly raise awareness of some of the causes of serious collisions in the Gedling Borough including speeding. I’ll update more on this over the coming months as this work progresses.

You can read Inspector Pearson’s blog HERE

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