Kirkby Stephen and Upper Eden

To combat rural crime and deter criminals from our area

We work closely alongside our Rural Crime Team. We had an introduction of the 4C’s within Cumbria Police and within the last few weeks / months we have worked inline with this mission. We will relentlessly pursue those involved within rural crime. In response to incidents, we increased our patrols with targeted activity operations. Numerous vehicles have been stopped during these patrols. Searches have been carried out on people and vehicles. Drone deployed to key locations. Behind the scenes, our team continue to work on investigations to identify suspects. We've also sent disruption notices and paid visits to keepers of vehicles reported in suspicious circumstances. We always like to be supported by our colleagues from our operational support unit and some of our rural crime volunteers who act as our eyes and ears. We also link in with our rural WhatsApp groups and continue to share intelligence with our bordering forces.
Part of our work involves speaking with different groups of people, raising awareness about rural crime. We've spoken to 3 groups of Cumbria Police cadets so far this year. This week was, where we discussed livestock, equine, environmental and wildlife offences, as well as machinery theft and showed some crime prevention measures.
We continue to work with the Rural Crime Team to proactively target travelling criminals and work with other force areas to target known criminals, using advance technology to aid us.
Proactive arrests after reports of stolen quadbikes and other plant machinery. Property recovered.
Dedicated patrols have been taking place, targeting HGV crime along the A66 corridor.

Road Safety concerns

Issued multiple Traffic Offence Reports across the area for speeding, mobile phone use, unnecessary obstruction and other road traffic offences.
Road safety across the locality raised and discussed at the monthly Road Safety Partnership, to identify trends and seek multi-agency longer term solutions.
Ongoing proactive operations on the A685 in the area, utilising new technology available to us to assist in recording offences.

Op Regulate - Night time economy

Working with partner agencies through the local focus hub, to work out what the issues are in the area and how prevalent these are.
The local PCSO is working to increase knowledge and awareness of night time economy offences, to assist us with our investigations.
We are re-launching Operation Regulate - Eden's approach policing the night time economy. This focuses on keeping people safe, especially the most vulnerable when out in our local towns. We aim to help reduce the issues of alcohol related violent disorder, sexual offences & ASB. With a specific and enhanced focus on violence against woman & girls.
Op Regulate has now relaunched and dedicated patrols will be out over the festive period.

Speeding on High Street/South road, Kirkby Stephen

We have assessed the High Street/South road with Highways and our Road Safety Unit, who have previously carried out traffic and speed surveys across these locations. No excessive speeding issue has been identified and the 85% percentile speeds are within tolerated levels. This location will be subject to routine enforcement by local officers.