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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Priority:
Action taken:
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Priority:
Drug dealing
Action taken:
•Police have conducted a total of 107 stop searches over the past 3 months in this area, with a 27 positive results.
•OP Fortitude is currently operating on the Hindpool locality to tackle organised crime relating to drugs and utilising a multi-agency approach to improve the local area and reduce crime.
•8 persons have been arrested by police for drug supply offences within the area, with 2 warrants conducted on residential addresses. -
Priority:
Anti-Social Behaviour
Action taken:
Operation Enhance aims to target this kind of activity and sees extra patrols in areas identified as hotspots for anti-social behaviour and/or serious violence.
We continue to use hotspot policing methods to target the areas identified as concern.
A designing out crime environmental audit has been conducted in the Hindpool area and we are submitting bids to improve street lighting in highlighted areas, along with seeking assistance in improving the area from out partner agencies.In December there has been additional Night time economy officers on duty to tackle ASB & Violence against women and Girls
PC Lambton has been engaged in proactive foot patrolling of the town centre
Reports of ASB have dropped in the town centre by 56.59% from the same period last year with total number of incidents occurring dropping from 129 to 56.
Op Enhance is continuing and residents will see officers regularly on foot patrol across the Town Centre and Hindpool wards.