Burglary

Helping to keep your property safe, from houses, to outbuildings, vehicles, garages and privately owned properties.

Acting swiftly when spates of burglaries are highlighted by communities, in responding to reports of burglary, conducting investigations, offering support and crime prevention tools to victims affected, and identifying those involved.

Our commitment to both tackling, and supporting victims of burglary remains a priority for our rural communities.

In the last few months, officers for your ward have held a number of local community meetings to speak to local residents, and businesses in the area, to offer crime prevention advice, support, and take away tools such a CCTV posters, property marking kits, all aimed at helping to further safeguard communities from crime.

Patrols include both those on foot and in our 4x4's across the districts, with patrols on late shifts aimed at deterring those using our rural roads networks to conduct crime, as well as to identify those committing crime in rural locations.

Rural Crime

Supporting rural communities affected by rural crime, including but not limited to; residential burglary, machinery theft, animal or livestock worrying, illegal poaching and criminal damage.

Working with both partners and the Sussex Rural Crime Team to serve our rural communities, supporting initiatives such as country watch or rural watch to make rural communities feel safer by building long-lasting partnerships, responding to the community’s needs and providing an effective policing service.

Policing our more rural areas to prevent and disrupt rural crime, and to identify those who use our more isolated areas of the district to conduct criminal activities, from fly tipping, damage to property and livestock worrying, to agricultural and equine theft.

Officers for your wards continue to commit to patrols of the more rural areas across the Lewes district, with officers paying close attention to a number of local lanes and country roads which are often used by criminals to conduct their activities.

Patrols both by foot in the villages, as well as in vehicles including out across the roads network surrounding the villages in our Sussex Police 4x4's, aimed at not only offering reassurances to local residents but also to identify and deter those involved in crime in the local area.