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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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Action taken:
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Priority:
Reports from local residents of drug activity and drug dealing in the town.
Action taken:
Actively targeting our known offenders, vehicles and addresses within Penrith town. This is done by conducting high vis foot patrol, plain clothes, gathering information via Streetsafes and submitting intelligence. Our main is always to get warrants granted from the courts and Eden NPT will execute these. We always ensure we are listening to the public and residents and will follow up any issues. If appropriate we are carrying out stop searches on nominals and seizing vehicles.
We continue to gather intelligence from the local community in regards to drug activity within the town.
We are continuing to complete street safe surveys in areas which have been affected.Several arrests have been made in relation to drug offences with investigations on going.
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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.
Keeping Town Centres Safe initiative is due to launch over the summer.
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Op Regulate - Night time economy
Action taken:
Operation Regulate - Eden's approach to 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.
Uniformed and plain clothed officers will be out over the festive period to help keep people safe.