Your Safer Neighbourhood Team
The Safer Neighbourhood Teams for Derby North cover Alvaston, Chellaston, Sinfin and Osmaston work with Partner Agencies to make your area a safer place to live and visit.
You can contact us and help decide where you think our priorities and focus should be along with any Neighbourhood issues affecting you.
Crimes and priorities
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Priority:
Action taken:
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Priority:
• Anti-social behaviour and drug dealing around the Aston Close area
• Prevention of theft from motor vehicles
• The use of illegal motorbikes and E-ScootersAction taken:
In relation to Anti-social Behaviour and the use of illegal off-road bikes and we will:
• Conduct regular high visibility and plains clothes patrols in known hotspot areas.
• Deploy Community Speed watch where appropriate
• Attend local meetings (e.g. Parish council, community forums) to gather feedback and share updates.
• Promote road safety awareness through school visits and youth engagement sessions.
• Take proactive enforcement action against offences such as obstruction, speeding, and anti-social driving
• Work with Roads Policing Unit for joint operations where necessary
• Collaborate with local councils to identify infrastructure improvements (signage, traffic calming).
• Liaise with Highways and CCTV teams to support evidence gathering and deterrence.
• Share updates and crime prevention advice via Derbyshire Alert and social media
• Publicise successful interventions to reassure the community and encourage reporting.In relation to anti-social behaviour and drug dealing around Aston Close area, we will:
Continue to work closely with our partners as part of our joint problem management approach, focusing on both prevention and enforcement of crimes involving anti-social behaviour, particularly those linked to the use of vehicles and drugs.
• This includes ongoing collaboration with key stakeholders such as the local council and Environmental Health, who share, responsibility for maintaining safety and wellbeing in the area.
• To support this work, we will maintain a proactive presence through a combination of high visibility and plain-clothes targeted patrols, informed by crime trend analysis and community intelligence.In relation to the prevention of theft from motor vehicles
• Plain clothes operations
• Handle Checks, officers checking for insecure vehicles
• Intelligence gathering
• Target hardening leaflets on insecure vehicles
• Security marking events