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Neighbourhood policing team
Your Neighbourhood Policing Team is a group of Cumbria Police officers dedicated to serving your community by focusing on local crime, disorder and quality of life issues.
We work closely with local authorities, partner agencies, community leaders and residents to decide on policing priorities for your neighbourhood through the Local Focus Hubs.
By working together we aim to find solutions to longstanding local problems while maintaining our wider focus on reducing crime across Cumbria.
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Crimes and priorities
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Parking in Borrowdale and Buttermere
This is a seasonal issue which has been raised over several years. This issue will remain a permanent priority as we prepare for Summer 2027 and the additional challenges anticipated from the visit of the Tour De France to Keswick
Action taken:
• High Visibility patrols during busy periods
• Joint work with Lake District National Park Authority and Cumberland Council parking enforcement teams
• Proactive prosecution of vehicles found to be causing Unneccesary Obstructions or parking in locations likely to cause a danger to other road users -
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Complaints of persistent Fly Camping around Keswick and Derwent Water during the summer of 2025 causing ASB and Damage to the environment.
This is a seasonal issue which has been raised over several years. This issue will remain a permanent priority as we prepare for Summer 2027 and the additional challenges anticipated from the visit of the Tour De France to Keswick
Action taken:
- Area Action Plan developed and lead by the Lake District National Park and work is ongoing with the LDNPA, Cumberland Council, and National Trust to tackle identified issues and develop longer term solutions
- High visibility patrols during peak periods of demand
- Development of media campaign to discourage fly camping before the 2026 summer period
- Enforcement of nuisance fly camping under the Cumberland Council PSPO (Public Space Protection Order) -
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Complaints from the community in relation to individuals persistently begging in Keswick and causing a nuisance
Action taken:
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Engagement with individuals identified as begging in the area, ensuring welfare needs are met and referrals to Cumberland Council Housing teams as appropriateWE DID:
Female identified as being subject to a Community Protection Notice in Hertfordshire for begging activity found to be breaching the conditions of her notice. She has been charged to court for breach of the order