Killingbeck and Seacroft Ward Areas

• To proactively address reports of drugs supply across the Seacroft ward and take positive enforcement actions. 
  We will conduct targeted patrols to gather intelligence, and disrupt offenders involved in the supply of drugs. We will seek to obtain warrants and bring offenders involved in the supply of drugs to justice as part of Operation Balletmay, a targeted operation to address street level drug dealing, along with the anti-social and criminal usage of pedal cycles, electric motorbikes, and stolen vehicles.
   
• To seek to reduce the levels of Burglary offences, across the ward. 
  We will deploy police resources to conduct targeted, proactive, and preventative patrols, across identified demand locations. We will seek to disrupt and identify offenders, ensuring enforcement action is taken where suspects are identified and provide crime prevention advice and target hardening materials where available.
   
• To address reports of Theft and Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) across the Killingbeck Retail Park. 
  We will carry out high visibility patrols across the retail premises, with a view to identifying and disrupting those involved in Theft and ASB, taking the relevant enforcement action to reduce demands.

Updated 1 August 2025

• Operation Balletmay remains in place across the ward to target and address drugs supply, vehicular nuisance, and anti-social behaviour. As part of the ongoing work to address demands and following investigative and enforcement work conducted by the Leeds District Anti-Social Behaviour Team, an adult male from Seacroft has been issued with a five-year Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO). Read the full news release at: Man Given Criminal Behaviour Order As Part Of Work To Tackle Nuisance Bikes In Leeds.
   
• The Leeds District Off-Road Bike Team continue to deploy across the ward and on the 11th July 2025, they seized an electric bike in Seacroft. The rider was reported to the courts for no insurance, no licence, no tax, no MOT and possession of Class B drugs. Please continue to report any actionable information and nuisance vehicles at: Report nuisance bikes / quad bikes / off roaders.
   
• Several misuse of drugs warrant were recently conducted across the Seacroft ward, resulting in multiple arrests, drugs and cash seized. Three men have since been charged with drugs offences, as a result of an investigation into the organised supply of Class A drugs. Enquiries and investigations remain ongoing for drugs and weapons offences, with other individuals on police bail or released under investigation. You can read the full news release at: Three Men Charged In East Leeds 'Ring And Bring' Drugs Investigation.
   
• We continue to address Burglary-residential offences following a recent increase in offences, across the ward. A host of crime prevention information available on the West Yorkshire Police website at: Easy Street Burglary Campaign
   
• To address reports of anti-social behaviour and Theft at Killingbeck Retail site, we continue conduct high visibility and engagement patrols across the site, at peak times for demand. Theft from shop offences across Killingbeck Retail site reduced from nineteen in the May - June period to twelve for the June - July period.

Garforth and Swillington, Kippax, Methley, and Villages Ward Areas

• To address public concerns of youth anti-social behaviour demands, with a particular focus in Allerton Bywater and Micklefield. 
  We will conduct targeted high visibility patrols across demand locations, during peak times identified from call demand analysis and information provided by local communities, to identify those involved in ASB. We will aim to inform, engage, and provide advice for young people so they can make safer choices, whilst signposting and referring young people who need further support, along with taking the relevant enforcement action.
   
• To target and address multiple road safety concerns including speeding and parking offences across the ward areas. 
  We will continue to arrange planned operations in line with Fatal4 to address speeding, driving offences, parking offences and car meets in the communities we serve, along with utilising Speed Indication Devices to raise public awareness. We will continue to work in partnership with North Yorkshire Police, to proactively deploy across the force borders to as part of Operation Republic.
   
• To target reports of Theft from shop at the Co-op stores on Main Street, Garforth and High Street, Kippax. 
  We will engage with store management teams and carry out high visibility patrols across the retail premises, with a view to identifying and disrupting those involved in Theft from shop, taking the relevant enforcement action to reduce demands. 
   

Updated 1 August 2025

• We continue to monitor demands across Allerton Bywater, and Micklefield to address following previous reports of youth related anti-social behaviour and criminality. Following previous dedicated work conducted and the problem-solving occurrence that was recorded youth related anti-social behaviour demands continue to reduce with just two reports of youth related ASB in the June - July period, compared to six the month prior.
   
• Police Community Support Officers, continue to visit the local Youth Provisions to engage with young people, raising awareness of the impact that anti-social behaviour and criminality has in the community and the consequences of such behaviour.
   
• To address Road Safety concerns in respect of reported ‘Car Meets’, Sergeant Sutcliffe continues to work closely with North Yorkshire Police to disrupt large scale meets across the force borders in line with the Leeds City wide Public Spaces Protection Order. Multiple deployments have been conducted at identified locations, to disrupt car meets and take any relevant enforcement actions. You can read more about the PSPO at : Vehicular nuisance PSPO | Leeds.gov.uk
   
• In addition, between the 4th and 6th July 2025, speed checks were conducted across the ward areas and PCSO's were pleased to report that the majority of motorists were found to be complying with the speed limits. A couple of motorists who were witnessed going slightly over the speed limit were educated at the roadside and warned accordingly.
   
• PCSO's continue to deliver a wide range of community engagements across the ward, inclusive of engaging with young people at local youth provisions, visiting community hubs, contact points, schools and coffee mornings.
   
• We continue to conduct patrols across Co-op stores on Main Street, Garforth and High Street, Kippax, in order to address reports of theft from shop offences.
   

Temple Newsam and Halton Ward Areas

• To address road safety concerns and road related offences, across the Temple Newsam and Halton ward with a particular focus on Temple Newsam Park and surrounding streets. 
  We continue to proactively deploy in line with Fatal4, to address vehicular nuisance, speeding and driving offences at the affected locations. We continue to work closely with site management teams, to obtain and review CCTV footage, in order to identify offenders and we continue to work closely with Leeds City Anti-Social Behaviour Team, to take enforcement action against those repeatedly involved in the anti-social use of vehicles inclusive of anti-social car meets.
   
• To address reports of urban street gangs and organised criminal groups involved in the supply of drugs and serious violence, particularly across the Wykebecks and Halton Moor sections of the ward. 
  As part of Operation Doleedge, Operation Amblemill and Operation Shield, we continue to obtain warrants and bring offenders involved in the supply of drugs and associated criminality to justice. We will maintain our approach and utilise a range of operational tactics to disrupt offending, identify offenders, gather intelligence and work closely with partner agencies, to utilise all enforcement methods at our disposal, signpost and divert young people away from criminality and safeguard vulnerable victims.
   
• To address anti-social behaviour and Theft offences, across The Springs Retail Park. 
  To achieve this, we will increase our high visibility foot patrols across the site, along with ‘plain clothes’ operations with a view to disrupting and identifying offenders and those involved in anti-social behaviour. We will continue to work with site management, security, and individual businesses to listen and act upon concerns raised and gather evidential materials in order to take any relevant legal and civil enforcement actions. 

Updated 11th July 2025:

• To address serious and organised crime and youth violence and in line with Operation Doleedge, a significant amount of money, drugs and vehicles have been seized to date, as a result of operations held, and warrants executed. Officers continue to gather community intelligence, with a view to taking further enforcement actions.
   
• As part of Operation Amblemill to address organised criminal groups, officers continue to proactively deploy across the ward, disrupting criminality and obtaining intelligence. Officers continue to assess and develop local intelligence, with a view to holding further operations across the locality.
   
• Operation Shield continues to deliver engagement, education, and intervention programmes to young people in order to divert them away from anti-social behaviour, criminality, and urban street gang activities.
   
• We continue to work alongside Leeds City Council, holding a multi-agency drop-in community contact point in Halton Moor. You can keep up-to-date with all of our events and meetings at: https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/my-neighbourhood/leeds/leeds-east/events
   
• To address Road Safety concerns the teams continue in partnership with the Leeds Neighbourhoods Vehicle Anti-Social Behaviour Team (ORBT), the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency and partners, proactively deploying across the ward. In addition, overtime patrols were implemented across the Temple Newsam Park estate to address reports of anti-social vehicle use, which resulted in multiple enforcement actions being taken. A local priority news releases has been published to highlight work conducted across the ward, and results achieved. You can access the news release and read more at https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/news-appeals/road-safety-matters-local-priority-updates-temple-newsam-and-halton-ward
   

• We continue to deploy across The Springs Retail Park to address reports of vehicular nuisance, car meets, theft and anti-social behaviour. On the 3rd July 2025 the Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) deployed to the site alongside the Leeds East Crime Prevention Officer, Leeds District Anti-Social Behaviour Team Sergeant and Link Officers, the Leeds Neighbourhoods Vehicle Anti-Social Behaviour Team, and Leeds City Council Anti-Social Behaviour Team officers as part of Anti-Social Behaviour Awareness Week. A local news release was published to highlight the engagements, and you can read more at: Police and Partners Engage with Public and Businesses at The Springs Retail Park, Leeds | West Yorkshire Police

Burmantofts and Richmond Hill Ward Areas

• To address reports of urban street gangs and organised criminal groups involved in serious and organised crime, particularly across the Lincoln Green and Burmantofts section of the ward. We will gather intelligence, identify, disrupt and arrest offenders involved in urban street gangs, organised criminal groups as part of Operations Anthenmill and Delldale. We will work collaboratively with partner agencies and third sectors to educate, disrupt, and divert young people away from criminality and ensure vulnerable victims are safeguarded.
   
• To address reports of Theft from motor vehicle and road related offences across the ward. We will conduct proactive and targeted patrols, gather intelligence, disrupt offenders, deliver crime prevention engagements and address roads related offences across the ward with a view to reducing demands and raising awareness of target hardening.
   
• To reduce Theft from Shop and incident demand at the One Stop Shop, on Temple View Grove. We will engage with the management and security team at the business premise and conduct targeted disruption and operational patrols in line with identified demand trends to identify and arrest offenders.

Updated 5 September 2025:

• To address urban street gangs and organised criminal groups, we continue to proactively deploy resources as part of Operations Anthenmill and Delldale inclusive of high visibility patrols, plain clothes operations. Following the arrest of a male on the 21st July 2025, previous news release accessible at: Proactive Deployments Results in Drugs and Weapons Arrest in Harehills, Leeds. Several other individuals have been arrested for gang related activities.
   
• To address organised crime officers conducted a multi-agency day of action in partnership with West Yorkshire Trading Standards and Leeds City Council Anti-Social Behaviour Team on the 18th August 2025. The deployments resulted in a significant haul of illicit and illegal items and you can read more at: Significant Haul of Illicit Tobacco and Illegal Vapes Seized In East Leeds
   
• Following the above day of action, Leeds City Council Anti-Social Behaviour Teams applied to the Courts for Premise Closure Orders, at premises where illegal and illicit goods were seized. This resulted in six premises being issued with Closures and you can read more about the closed premises at: Six Further Premise Closure Orders Obtained Following Significant Haul of Illicit Tobacco and Illegal Vapes Seized in East Leeds
   
• Tackling theft from motor vehicles, and road related offences across the ward we continue to deliver the vehicle crime prevention initiative, deploying across repeat demand and high demand locations, along with delivering target hardening crime prevention advice. Further days of action have been held alongside Leeds City Council Parking Services, on the 9th and 15th August, resulting in 44 parking tickets being issued. A total of 313 parking enforcement tickets issued since January, multiple vehicles seized, vehicle suspensions and notices of intended prosecutions issued. You can read more and access previous news releases at: Road Safety Matters Local Priority Updates - Burmantofts and Richmond Hill, Leeds
   
• To address shop theft at the One Stop business premise, we have been actively engaging with management and the security team, and a series of operations have been conducted to try and reduce demands, with arrests made and proactive reassurance patrols in place. As a result, shoplifting offences have significantly reduced at the location over the last two months.

Crossgates and Whinmoor Ward Areas

• To address reports of anti-social behaviour and reports of theft from shop, with a particular focus around the Langbar Retail Centre, Swarcliffe. 
  We will continue to conduct targeted high visibility patrols across the affected business premises and surrounding streets, with an aim to reduce reports of anti-social behaviour (ASB) and theft from shop. We will work closely with Leeds City Council Youth Services, Leeds Anti-Social Behaviour Team and Housing focusing on joint and smart approaches for more long-term interventions such as restorative work for young people and enforcement action for those involved in Theft from Shop and those repeatedly identified for causing anti-social behaviour.
   
• To continue our focus on addressing the use of stolen and off-road motorcycles driving illegally and in an anti-social manner in Swarcliffe, Stanks, Whinmoor and Crossgates. 
  We will continue to focus on addressing the use of stolen and off-road motorcycles driving illegally and in an anti-social manner across the ward, with a view to reducing demands. We aim to achieve this by utilising a number of tools, primarily community information to identify where the bikes are being stored, and those responsible for the theft and illegal use of bikes and will act on such information received. We will conduct proactive operations alongside our neighbouring NPT wards, and the Leeds District Off-Road Bike Team.
   
• To tackle and address Theft from Shop and anti-social behaviour (ASB) at the Crossgates Shopping Centre and surrounding business retailers. 
  We aim to achieve this through opening key communication channels with retail outlets, the onsite management and security teams. We will conduct high visibility patrols, identify persistent offenders taking relevant enforcement actions and we will continue to deliver our community contact point, at Crossgates Library.
   

Updated 5th September 2025

• To address ASB and Theft from Shop at the Langbar Retail site and Jackie Chan’s Takeaway on Swarcliffe Avenue, we continue to provide a high visibility NPT footprint. Anti-Social Behaviour across the site has significantly reduced in recent months, however, over the last month there has been a rise in theft from shop occurrences across Swarcliffe Avenue and we will continue to conduct targeted patrols, engage with local businesses to gather evidence with a view to reducing demands and identifying offenders.
   
• We continue to work in partnership with Leeds City Council Youth Services to engage with young people across the ward. PCSO’s continue to visit and engage with young people at centre-based provisions, to build positive relations.
   
• To address motorcycle demands we continue to work collaboratively with neighbourhood colleagues at Inner East Leeds and the Off-Road Bike Team, to tackle the off road and stolen motorbikes. On the 24th August 2025, the Off-Road Bike Team acted on community intelligence received and recovered a stolen motorbike in Swarcliffe, stolen from Seacroft. The motorbike was quickly returned to its rightful owner, who was unaware it had been stolen.
   
• To tackle and address ASB and Theft at Crossgates Shopping Centre, we have conducted multiple high visibility patrols across the site, engaged with local business setting up key contact links and the local Crime Prevention officer has conducted several crime prevention surveys and reports for businesses. PCSO’s have been regularly engaging with site security and local businesses, collating CCTV footage and conducting crime enquiries. As a result of the deployments and enquiries, suspects have been identified for offences at the location and investigations remain ongoing at this time.
   
• A bike register event was held on the 22nd August 2025, from 10:00 – 14:00 hours, at Crossgates Shopping Centre and further events will be planned in the near future. You can keep up to date with our planned events and meetings at: Events and meetings

Gipton and Harehills Ward Areas

• To address reports and incidents linked to drugs supply, organised criminality, and street drinking, with a particular focus along Harehills Road, the Bayswater’s, and Ashton's in the Harehills section of the ward. 
  As part of the Clear, Hold and Build Home Office initiative, locally named as CommUnity 
  Harehills we will work with the community to develop intelligence and act on reports, and information received. We will hold targeted days of action, multi-agency operations and seek to obtain warrants, to pursue and disrupt offending.
   
• To address Theft from motor vehicle offences, across Gipton and Harehills. 
  We will conduct high visibility patrols across the identified crime demand locations, with a view to disrupting offences, identifying offenders, and gathering intelligence.
   
• To address reports of Theft from Shop and reports of begging outside shop entrances, across the Gipton and Harehills ward. 
  We will engage with the management and security teams at the business premises and conduct targeted disruption and operational patrols, in line with identified demand trends to identify, disrupt and arrest offenders. In addition, we will engage with those begging, signpost to relevant support services and take enforcement action against those repeatedly identified as causing a nuisance.

Updated 5 September 2025

• To address serious and organised crime across the Harehills ward as part of CommUnity Harehills we continue to work alongside partner agencies, holding regular days of action and proactive hotspot patrols which has resulted in arrests, drugs, weapons, and vehicles seized. Between the 5th and 6th August 2025, officers were conducting Safer Streets proactive overtime patrols which resulted in two arrests one for a wanted male and the other for possession with intent to supply Class B drugs. Several stop searches were conducted, two individuals were issued with Community Resolutions for possession of Class B drug and officers located fifteen bags of Class B drugs in a public place, which were subsequently seized.
   
• A total of 82 arrests have been made as part of the investigation into the Harehills disorder in July 2024, with 41 individuals charged and combined sentences of 42 years and six months so far given to those convicted.  You can read the latest news release at: Male And Female Charged Following 2024 Harehills Disorder
   
• As part of Clear, Hold, Build CommUnity Harehills the Fusion 8 Community Hub was opened on Bexley Road on the 14th August 2025, which will provide a safe and neutral space for residents to speak with local officers in the Community. The opening dates and times for the community will be shared in due course. You can read more about the launch and opening of the building at: New community hub in Harehills supports local people and provides police contact point
   
• We continue to address Theft from motor vehicle offences which continues to present with high demands. Officers continue to conduct proactive patrols with a view to identifying offenders and continue to deliver crime prevention information encouraging vehicle owners to remove all valuables from vehicles. A range of vehicle crime prevention information is also available at: Theft from Motor Vehicles
   
• In July, officers conducted a multi-agency traffic operation in Harehills, alongside the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, Leeds City Council Serious Environmental Crime Team, the Department for Work and Pensions and the Roads Policing Unit. A total of three vehicles were issues with traffic offence reports, three motorists were reported to the Courts, one motorist was required to purchase a waste carriers’ licence, and three vehicles were immediately prohibited by the DVSA.
   
• To address retail related crime and incidents, officers and PCSO’s have been conducting high visibility patrols and engagements with local businesses, across Harehills Lane and will continue to engage with businesses and communities to address local concerns.