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:
The residents of Salthouse, Roose and Newbarns have highlighted road safety as the priority they would like the Police to address. This largely centres around speeding motorists and road safety around schools.
Action taken:
A hotspot location has been identified around the Roose Road/Rampside Road/Leece Lane area.
To tackle these issues, the Neighbourhood Police Team will arrange public meetings to discuss further and gain more understanding of the offences and locations. We will then be visible on the roadside to stop and advise drivers of their responsibilities, and where necessary prosecute those found to be breaking the law, while we will be present in local schools to emphasise and teach road safety to the children.
The next quarterly Police, Partners and Communities Together (PACT) survey will be a measure of our success in reducing road safety as a priority for Salthouse, Roose and Newbarns.
Speeding tickets have been issued on Leece Lane in April 2025 and May 2025 following the deployment of our Speed indication device to the area, which identified key times where there is frequent road users using excess speed -
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ASB & Serious Violence
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. -
Priority:
Road Safety
Action taken:
Our new CBO Liam Poole arrived on our team on the 16th of June, and got right to work getting out on foot in the area, meeting residents whilst on patrol and attending community meetings.