Retail Crime – Identify our top repeat targeted retail premises, working with partners in designing out crime and prevent offences. Identify and pursue our persistent offenders, making best use of prevention orders

Reported retail crime is low in this area, but the local community police team are always monitoring this issue and when offences occur are reviewing the crimes to see if there are any evidential opportunities they can assist with. Extra patrols to the areas in and around the local supermarket and convenience stores in Hadleigh are underway.

Protection of persons vulnerable to exploitation/victim of violent crime related behaviours - Working with partners, and making use of police powers to protect those identified as vulnerable/victims to violence

The local community police team have in recent months completed welfare checks at identified addresses in the Hadleigh and Capel St Mary area to help keep victims safe and prevent further offences. Tackling these issues also includes working in partnership with the Babergh Community Safety Team, the Council Housing Team and/or the relevant housing association. Joint work with the police Response Investigation Team has also taken place. The team has also delivered an early input to staff at a new children’s home in Hadleigh to help prevent any future child exploitation.

Street ASB Hadleigh – Preventing and detecting street ASB by being visible within the community and proactive in diverting identified offenders away from these behaviours

The local community police team recognise this as a recurring issue in Hadleigh. Due to this, extra patrols are taking place at parks in Hadleigh, to tackle nuisance behaviour and to identify those responsible. During one of those patrols, a 17-year-old was stop searched and cannabis was seized, with the youth referred to the Suffolk Police Youth Justice department and a community resolution administered with signposting to Turning Point (drug/alcohol rehabilitation). A motorbike rider was issued a traffic offence report for riding a motorbike on a footpath in a park. The team is working with the Babergh Community Safety Team, Babergh Council and Hadleigh Town Council looking for some longer-term solutions. Patrols of car parks in the area also continue, with some recent CCTV inquiries into vehicle ASB reported to be occurring in Magdalen Road Car Park and George Street. The Hadleigh area has also seen an increase in roads policing patrols, typically by the police motorcyclists.