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Online forms will be unavailable from 3am to 7am on Thursday, 22 October while we complete some essential maintenance. The website will also go down for approximately five minutes at some point between these times.
If you need to report a crime during this time, please call us on 101, or 999 in an emergency.
Your Safer Neighbourhoods Team
Crimes and priorities
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Priority:
Action taken:
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Priority:
Prevent serious violence and knife crime
Action taken:
Increase proactive patrols and seek prosecutions for those found to be offending. Conduct youth engagement around knife possession and its consequences. Highlighting weapon amnesty days.
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Priority:
Drug use in and around BNT2 and Oak Square
Action taken:
High visibility and plain clothes police patrols to both deter and arrest those responsible. Ensure that drug referral is offered to all those who we encounter. Ensure that high quality cases are presented to the CPS to achieve the best possible outcomes at court.
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Priority:
Drug use, street drinking and aggressive begging around Max roach Park, St Johns Crescent and Brixton Terrace.
Action taken:
Conduct high visibility and plain clothes patrols in the hotspot areas, utilise temporary CCTV cameras and offer diversion to all we encounter. Improve the usage of community protection warnings and notices.