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Your local team
Your local policing team is made up of dedicated neighbourhood officers and community support officers.
We work closely with local authorities, community leaders and residents to decide our policing priorities for the area. This helps us to find useful, long-term solutions to local problems, while maintaining our wider focus on reducing crime across Tyne & Wear and Northumberland.
Crimes and priorities
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Priority:
Action taken:
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Priority:
Anti-social behaviour in park areas, abandoned buildings, underage drinking, criminal damage and use of illegal e-bikes and e-scooters.
Action taken:
Increased patrols, partnership work with local counsellors and partner agencies, schools and fire service. Educational inputs, identification of culprits, Youth Justice Services, letters and behaviour contracts.
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Priority:
Rural theft of vehicles (2 in 1 burglaries), machinery, quadbikes in farm locations
Action taken:
Supporting farms, rural communities, and industrial estates through crime-prevention advice and a visible policing presence, including regular engagement at Hexham Mart. Support via the Rural Crime Team. Target hardening with locations through our crime prevention advisors. Offender focused, with information sharing between forces, use of covert tactics.
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Priority:
Burglary, shoplifting and criminal damage of retail premises, taking into consideration night time economy and alcohol-related behaviour within town centres.
Action taken:
We’re engaging with stores and increasing patrols and visibility in town centres. Positive action is being taken, including arrests, consideration of remands, and pursuing Criminal Behaviour Orders on charge.