City South Priorities - July -September Inclusive

Through analysis of crime, consultation with partners in our Multi agency Problem Solving meeting, the PCC crime survey and feedback from our community.

we have identified the following policing priorities for the next three months.

These priorities do not replace those local priorities raised at community meetings. The priorities are reviewed monthly and reviewed quarterly. The City South areas have such different demographics each area has its own issues and problems therefore in order to capture all the elements raised the priorities are deliberately non-specific to ensure they remain relevant to all.

Drugs

Drugs continues to be a priority as it is intrinsically linked with many other crimes and taking a strong approach to drugs impacts on other areas.
The City South will carry on targeting drug offenders in the bid to hopefully send out a message that this kind of activity will not be tolerated.
Our neighbourhood teams have been consistent in our approach of taking positive action relating to intelligence received and acting on information that comes from within our communities.
We have continued to execute numerous drug warrants across the area and have recovered significant quantities of drugs from circulation in our communities.
Arrests have been made investigations are ongoing to ensure the appropriate action is taking by working with our partners in The City council by looking at appropriate closure orders and other punitive sanctions
We have targeted vehicles used by those involved in the distribution of drugs to make it difficult to engage in this activity on the City South area.

Acquisitive crime

Acquisitive crime is a priority due to the detrimental impact it has on its victims. so we will continue to positively deal with robbery, thefts, shop thefts, motor vehicle related offences and burglary. We will therefore carry on identifying these serial offenders, whilst focusing on repeat offenders and hot spot areas as early as possible to ensure we maximise opportunities of prosecutions, which ultimately leads to victims getting positive resolutions.

Significant inroads has been made in relation to retail crime that has severely effected all areas. The City south had suffered at the hands of this issue, but y working with teams from across the force and private sector including the COOP and Mitie we have managed to reduce the month on month offending within stores on the City South.
High visibility patrols, covert operations, Pop up beat surgeries and taking positive action against the offenders have all had a significant impact on the offending over the past three months

Antisocial Behaviour.

Having consulted with counsellors and key individuals in your communities, I have identified that a number of significant issues are taking place in your areas, that comes under the heading of antisocial Behaviour.
You have told us that antisocial driving and speeding is a concern, specifically car cruising is effecting you feeling safe in your community
Given the broad nature of this heading it gives me and my team the opportunity to focus our efforts on particular areas in each of your communities and is why ASB will be a priority for the wards of City South for the next three months.

We have increased the policing cover in The City South over the past month to offer further assurances of our commitment to the area.

Our three priorities are there to ensure you feel and are safe why being in our area, we will continue to fight crime and listen to you and understand what is needed with you to make sure that you feel safe and improve your confidence in our ability to deal with your concerns, providing an excellent service, which we deliver with pride compassion and integrity.

The Local policing priorities set at the start of July were reviewed with partners in the muti agency problem solving meeting of the 29th of August.

Having assessed the current position with Crime , antisocial behaviour and other environmental factors it was felt that the priorities are appropriate and will continue through September at which point they will be further considered.

I was disappointed with the data from last month but by focussing our attention on problem solving targeted activity and engagement with the community we have see a significant reduction in key areas this month

Antisocial behaviour has reduced on the City South as whole from last month with only the Mapperley and Wells Ward seeing a slight increase of 2 reports.

We have made significant in road in ASB with significant reductions across all the areas over most reporting periods

A reduction of 1.7% from last month but we are focussing out police activity using visible patrols in areas identified as hotspots and also taking action against those problem addresses that repeatedly cause distress and unhappiness for the other members of the community, such as residential addresses on Wasnidge walk and Wainright house in St Anns

Drugs and drug dealing

We have seen a slight reduction in possession and trafficking offences from last month but are pretty much the same as we were this time last year. Recording of drug offences is an indicator of the positive work that the teams are doing as we only record offences where possession or supply offences have been recovered.
While there is always room for improvement, I am confident that my teams take positive action where appropriate.
We support this activity with drugs warrants and proactive operations an by working with partners to address drug dealing, drug lines and county lines offenders and victims in our area

Acquisitive Crime

We have seen a 50% reduction in robbery from last month which is 6 fewer offences but are still up on the rolling 12 months when we have had 31 more offences than last year.

We have seen a reduction in burglary of 30.8% and are down on this time last year by 14%
Targeted activity last month has prevented the number we saw in July and will continue to work to prevent and reduce this invasive offence
Retail crime has also reduced from last month by 30%, but 38 offences up on this time last year To address these issues we have created a problem management plan to address retail crime in the City South
Unfortunately, we have seen an increase of 34% in vehicle crime
Each robbery and burglary are reviewed by detectives from an investigative point of view and lines of enquiry are identified, Locally we then look to identify any patterns and what problem solving or targeted activity could be put in place to prevent or reduce the risk.
We cannot deal with the issues affecting the community without the support of local residents and businesses and, by working in partnership with other agencies and businesses.
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