Your Safer Neighbourhood Team
The South Derbyshire area spans 131 Square miles and covers the towns of Swadlincote and Melbourne as well as villages and hamlets such as Hilton, Repton, Aston on Trent and Overseal. About a third of the national forest lies within the district as well as many attractions such as Elvaston Country park, Foremark and Staunton Harold reservoir, Calke Abbey a Grade I listed country house and grounds near Ticknall and Melbourne Hall a Georgian style country house previously owned by the 2nd Viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister from 1835 to 1841. Swadlincote is the principal town with a shopping area and town hall. It is historically significant for being a mining town and for pottery and brick manufacturing
The South Derbyshire Policing Unit is part of Derbyshire Constabulary, built up of a Local policing unit responsible for responding to emergency and non emergency incidents and a Safer Neighbourhood team responsible for an individual area to focus on crime prevention, community engagement, problem solving, working closely with partner agencies and residents to address community issues.
Crimes and priorities
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Priority:
Action taken:
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Priority:
1) Proactive targeted patrols for possession of Drugs
2) Antisocial use and offences caused by Off road bikes
3) Serious acquisitive crime
4) Education surrounding crime prevention relevant to the areaAction taken:
1) In relation to proactive targeted patrols for possession of Drugs, we will: - • Gather and follow community intelligence and conduct regular high visibility and plain clothes patrols in known hotspot areas, taking proactive enforcement if offences located. • Publicise successful interventions to reassure the community and encourage reporting • Work closely with our Youth Engagement team to help deter youths away from drug use.
2) In relation to antisocial use and offences caused by Off road bikes we will: - • Conduct regular high visibility and plains clothes patrols in known hotspot areas taking proactive enforcement if offences located. • Promote road safety awareness through school visits and youth engagement sessions. • Work with our Roads Policing Unit for joint operations where necessary • Share updates via Derbyshire Alert and social media • Publicise successful interventions to reassure the community and encourage reporting.
3) In relation to serious acquisitive crime, we will: • Continue high visibility and plain clothes patrols in hotspot areas. • Share crime prevention advice through social media, community events and Derbyshire Alert, raising awareness of current issues. • Promote security measures such as tool marking, steering locks and CCTV. • Work with partners including local authorities, bordering police forces and national policing teams to share intelligence and prevent offending.
4) In relation to encouraging and educating on crime prevention relevant to the area we will: • Send out fortnightly messages around crime prevention, monitoring reports made to police and partners to identifying any crime trends and tailor our advice to these. • Promote security measures such as tool marking, steering locks and CCTV. • Publicise successful interventions to reassure the community and encourage reporting. • Liaise/ work with our Rural crime team around crime prevention advise for the rural community • Hold crime prevention events throughout the area