Your Safer Neighbourhood Team
Your Safer Neighbourhood team (SNT) is a group of local police officers, Police Community Support Officers and Specials dedicated to serving your community.
We are proud to work closely with local authorities, community leaders and residents to decide our policing priorities for the area. This helps us to find useful, long-term solutions to local problems, while maintaining our wider focus on preventing and reducing crime, protecting the vulnerable and providing reassurance across Derbyshire.
Crimes and priorities
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Priority:
Action taken:
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Priority:
1. Begging at Kingsway and locality
2. ASB – Hotspot Policing (street drinking/Drugs/Youth)
3. Burglary preventionAction taken:
1: Working in conjunction with various Derby City Council departments to enforce a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO), issuing fixed penalty notices and Community Protection warnings to regular offenders. The PSPO allows officers to disperse persons engaging in anti social behaviour and issue Fixed penalty notices for acts such as littering, begging, loitering and drinking. Working with intervention partners to try and assist in preventing further issues with prolific offenders and supporting their welfare. This work has already been praised by local shops at Kingsway who have noticed a difference already.
2: High visibility patrols aimed at deterring the young people involved in the Anti Social Behaviour ( ASB) identifying any offences and signposting them to a relevant intervention agency. Reports of begging outside shop fronts, deter, prevent and support/ safeguard individuals involved in this.
3: Engagement has been conducted and planned in affected streets, offering crime prevention advice and tools, with more expected. a variety of Proactive tactics are being planned to identify the offenders. Offender(s) also reported across the whole City in the early hours of the morning, approaching gates or vehicles to check if they are not secured. Officers have had academic training in crime prevention, especially burglary and can offer visits to addresses to advise on target hardening.