Dealing with shoplifting and rough sleeping.

Shoplifting is a common crime in the main retail areas (Alexandra Retail Park and Jasper Square) along with Tunstall High Street. Work is been done with the Early Intervention and Prevention Unit to offer advice and report where improvements to stores can be made to help prevent shoplifting before it happens.
Early sweeps of the location are also in place to engage with any rough sleepers found and to link them in with the Rough Sleeper’s Team in an attempt to get them verified as rough sleepers.
We will continue to target repeat offenders not only with criminal convictions but also with Community Protection Notices and post-conviction court orders such as Criminal Behaviour Orders where appropriate. We will continue to work closely with the various businesses to ensure that where possible, crime and anti-social behaviour is prevented and that suitable punitive action is taken where prevention has failed.

Off-road bikes

Operation Transom and Operation Reclaim is our response to nuisance off-road bikes in the county. In conjunction with the local council, we are trying to identify riders of the bikes, both through police reported incidents and information received by the local council. Where the evidence allows, police will carry out seizure of bikes and prosecution of any riders. There have been occasions where riders have been identified as residing in Local Authority housing and tenancy breach action has been taken.