Retail Crime. We are aware that a number of local businesses have been subjected to repeated retail crime and we understand the impact this has had.

The team continue to work with the affected businesses to target retail crime and recently a prolific offender on the Tipton area has been arrested and charged with 14 offences.

We continue to work with businesses to target prolific and repeat offenders and take positive action against them

As always I will encourage local members of our community to report any issues or concerns via 101, web chat or 999 in an emergency.

Antisocial Behaviour.

We are aware of residents concerns regarding ASB on the Tibbington Estate.

As part of our commitment to reducing ASB we deploy officers to the estate to carry out regular high visibility patrols.
We are working with the council and partners to target ASB, including the deployment of Police Off Road Bikes and replacement of physical barriers.

We would encourage residents to continue to report issues of ASB to us

Individuals causing harassment, and distress to canal towpath users and on occasions thefts from persons has occurred

increased patrols of the area affected, use of off road bike team and specialist units, working alongside council to prevent further harm and protect

* Local officers have conducted daily high visibility patrols along the canals supported by specialist units
* A number of stop and searches have been conducted on the canal towpaths and a number of people have been arrested for a variety of offences.
* We are working with Partner agencies to make the canal towpaths safer and increase patrols and presence of partners in the area.