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.
If you want to receive updates about what we’re doing in your area, want to contact us easily with your feedback or get the latest news and job alerts, you can sign up to receive our newsletters and area updates. You'll receive emails or text messages about the issues you tell us you want to know about.
Crimes and priorities
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Priority:
Speeding – Garsdale
Action taken:
The neighbourhood team will continue to wor with local residents on the Speed Watch Group to help tackle excess speed in the area. This is one of a number of options to help reduce the issue through education and where necessary enforcement.
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Priority:
We have seen a recent increase in reports of suspicious incidents and also thefts which have targeted local farms.
Action taken:
We continue to have dedicated Community Beat Officers and PCSO's in our rural area's. Our team work closely with the force Rural Crime Team. We conduct regular farm visits to provide crime prevention equipment and advice. Our local beat officers spend most of their time on patrol in our rural communities and continue to conduct day and night time work conducting stop checks and using recent intelligence to disrupt criminality.