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:
Retail crime
Action taken:
A problem orientated policing plan is in place to support repeat victims and target prolific offenders. Partnership work is ongoing with key premises to assist in crime prevention. Prolific offenders are being identified and arrested with civil orders being used to deter and prevent offending. Plain clothes operation recently undertaken alongside store security at a premises suffering high levels of offences.
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Priority:
Vehicle Crime
Action taken:
Active patrols of hotspot areas to gather evidence and reassure the public whilst sharing crime prevention advice. Active targeting of offenders. Regular use of plain clothes patrols and stop and search powers.
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Priority:
Serious violence
Action taken:
Working within the SAIL team (Sunderland Altogether Improving Lives) to identify and target offenders. The team are using diversionary activities as well as seeking appropriate disruption orders and conditional bail to prevent offending and disrupt behaviour. Outreach youth workers are assisting in diverting children away from violence.