Leake & Keyworth

Rushcliffe Local Police Priority Setting (LPPS) priorities for July to September 2020

Rushcliffe Neighbourhood Priorities July – Sept 2020 Having held the Local Police Priority Setting Meeting with Rushcliffe Stakeholders and Partners in July the following three priorities were agreed and set for July to September 2020. 1). Lady Bay Anti-social behaviour (ASB). Numerous reports from residents and Local Councillors of  The Hook skate park, and adjoining land and fields and 10 Acre Field, Lady Bay where groups of people are gathering at night and engaging in noisy and disruptive behaviour. It is suspected Nitrous Oxide (NOS) canisters are being used by the youngsters which are also presents a health hazard. Rushcliffe Police introduced a Dispersal authority for 48 hours over the weekend of 29th June which had a positive impact on 10 Acre Field. The measure was taken in response to reports of young people congregating in the Lady Bay area late at night, setting fires, exploding gas canisters and playing loud music. Police will continue to patrol and deal with ASB at these locations at key times in the evenings and at weekends. We will listen to local residents and stakeholders and respond to ASB issues positively using our Engage, Explain and Encourage approach. Where this fails police will take enforcement action utilising appropriate powers ASB powers that could result in arrest and prosecution. 2). Increase in shed, garage and out building burglary in East Bridgford, Car Colston and Screveton villages. There has been eight burglary and theft offences in these villages overnight in June and early July. It appears that these offences have taken place overnight and offenders would likely have had access to a van or trailer to remove the stolen property.Police will conduct overnight highly visible patrols in these villages and surrounding villages during which we will stop vehicles and people as we try to identify who may be committing these offences. We will use a range of tactics and we will vary these at different times and at present we have placed ‘police operation’ signs at prominent location to alert people to our activity. We will also work with local Parish Councils to assist with crime prevention advice for local residents and to ensure the early reporting of suspicious activity.3). Operation Bion – Coronavirus related anti-social behaviour patrols with a focus on parks and open spaces where social gatherings are taking place and where people are being effected by alcohol related anti-behavior.  Analysis has identified the top 10 locations across Rushcliffe for these issues and our NPT staff will be patrolling and engaging to change behaviour and reassure local people. 

Rushcliffe Local Police Priority Setting (LPPS) priorities for April 2020 to July 2020

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the LPPS meeting between the Police and partners to agree the priorities for the period April to July 2020 has not taken place.Inspector Craig BERRY has decided that for this quarter period our focus will be on the Covid-19 national medical emergency. This is a quickly changing situation and we are following the guidance of the government and NHS.We encourage people to monitor the goverenment  https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus and NHS https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/ and Nottinghamshire Police news https://www.nottinghamshire.police.uk/news web sitesAs well as providing updates on our social media pages we will continue to update this page with the work we are doing.Update 2nd June 2020Throughout the period late April and the whole of May the Rushcliffe beat team have been actively patrolling as much of Rushcliffe as we can, using high visibility patrols.The process of Engaging, Explaining and Encouraging around the Covid-19 rules and advice has been followed by all of the beat officers, generally with positive results from Rushcliffe residents. The directions given by the health proffessionals and the government have been changing on a regular basis, meaning we have had to keep up to date with most recent advice.As the 'lockdown' has been lifted slightly this has caused us some problems as more and more people go back to work and engage socially, with one constant of keeping 2 metres from others where possible.Recently we have had some issues with a few hundred people attending Bridgefield park in West Bridgford, some of those people we are hearing have been obtaining alcohol from nearby bars and shops and then congregating on the grass area, causing some issues for nearby residents through noise, litter and some reports of people urinating against the residents hedgerows.Inspector Berry has been in contact with Rushcliffe Borough Council staff and the Nottinghamshire Police licensing officer, through partnership working and beat team staff directed to patrol the area we believed that we can improve the situation for all whilst ensuring the guidance is adhered to.On top of this work around Covid-19 we have also executed a number of drugs warrants in Rushcliffe; further details can be found on our social media pages Rushcliffe south and West Bridgford facebook pages, plus the Nottinghamshire Police web site news pages.Final update for the
April to July 2020 prioritiesIt has been a challenging few weeks as the Covid-19
restrictions have started to be lifted with people starting to emerge from the
lockdown and start meeting again in public places such as parks.In particular we saw a large number of people meeting in
Bridgford Park with alcohol either bought in the immediate locality or with
them. The aftermath was a problem for Rushcliffe Borough Council having to
clean up the litter that had been left and complaints from local residents
around noise and .We quickly worked with our partners to try and improve
this situation, which we did quite quickly.We visited the nearby licensed premises and reminded them of
the license conditions, RBC arranged for portable toilets to be brought to the
site, security staff were employed to monitor reduced access points and opening
times of the park were reduced. Local officers engaged with the public who
attended the site advising them around the government advice.More determined action was required at the playing field on
Adbolton Lane in lady bay where a dispersal order was authorised under
Anti-social behaviour legislation. This was following reports of alcohol
related ASB where large numbers of teenagers and young people congregating on
the park during the evening and night, setting fires, exploding  gas canisters and playing loud music.In other parts of Rushcliffe, in the more rural villages, we
have also had issues with ASB during the evening and into the early hours,
primarily in Bingham, Keyworth and East Leake, but also in the smaller villages.
We have addressed this by high visibility patrols and also using unmarked
vehicles along with social media reports highlighting the problems and asking
parents to challenge their children about their whereabouts.Many reports and pictures on our social media pages show
patrols we have carried out across Rushcliffe.Operation Alaska patrols continued with some good results
from stop search where drugs were found a number of people. The vehicle of a
driver that failed to stop for Police was arrested and we have seized vehicles
that have not been road legal.We have been watching to see what the reaction would be
around football matches starting again behind closed doors. We did not know if
fans would congregate in groups near to the City Ground when Nottingham Forest were
playing. We had plans in place to deal with the situation if it occurred I am
pleased to say that so far fans have followed the advice and not congregated at
the ground or elsewhere, this will be an ongoing monitoring situation until all
of the games have been played.

Rushcliffe Local Police Priority Setting (LPPS) priorities for January 2020 to March 2020

1)     Lady Bay burglaries Priority.  Recent crime spike has returned in January on Lady Bay and
Abbey beats. This is an on-going issue and will remain a LPPS priority
for next quarter January to March. Although there was a reduction in December
this problem remains and this is evidenced through the most recent crimes
reported.   There have been 12 burglary offences in the last two weeks.
There have been 5 dwelling house burglaries and 7 outbuilding and shed
burglaries across Lady Bay and Abbey beats. These offences have predominantly
been overnight but not exclusively in the case of the dwelling burglary
offences. Most recently there is a small micro beat within Lady Bay which has
been repeatedly targeted over a number of nights by criminals. This area
includes addresses on Melbourne Road from Trent Blvd to Holme Road along to
Pierrepont Road. There have also been a small number of thefts from motor
vehicle offences including car registration plates stolen from within the same
area.  In LADY BAY we have seized two sets of bolts croppers and a
spade that have been submitted for forensic examination. There will be continuing effort to inform local residents of
crimes reported and with that advice on how to protect their property from
criminals. Along with Rushcliffe Borough Council we will work with local
community groups both in person and by social media. We will support local
Neighbourhood Watch schemes and the equivalent. We will increase patrols at
relevant times in the area and we will revisit all victims of crime in this
area for investigation opportunities (witnesses, forensic and CCTV) and we will
promptly act upon any intelligence or evidence which identifies a suspect.  We will continue to talk to local stake
holders and Councillors about the issue and will act on feedback from the
community.  2)     ASB (Anti-social behaviour) in CotgraveThe ASB situation on Cotgrave precinct area has improved in
the last few months; however there are some issues in the wider area of
Cotgrave. This includes the rear of the precinct shops, the entrance to the library
and medical centre and around the church on Bingham Road. Reports have been
made to local Cllrs.  and beat team about
these issues.3)      East Leake PriorityThe last 3 months has seen a general increase in incidents
in the East Leake area. There have been 5 reported burglaries, including two
where the vehicle was stolen. These all occurred overnight. We have also had 15
Autocrime offences reported during this period including tools being targeted
from vans, number plates and a couple of motorbikes stolen. These have also
occurred mainly overnight. There have been 14 reported RTC’s in addition to a
number of reports of drink drivers and numerous speeding incidents. In light of this East Leake has been chosen as a priority
area for the next 3 months. This will mean 3 dedicated nights of action with
the Rushcliffe Neighbourhood Policing Team and other specialist units targeting
the risky areas, stopping vehicles, disrupting criminal activity and
intelligence led drugs warrants being executed. There will also be an operation
with other agencies focussing on road related offences meaning speed, seatbelt
and mobile phone checks.Updates 18th February 20201, Lady bay burglaries priority.Burglary reduction and cycle marking work has been carried
out in the Lady bay area. We have also had some engagement work with a local
group in the Abbey ward area around crime prevention advice, also work around
the nominated neighbour scheme in the Abbey area.
https://www.nottinghamshire.police.uk/site-page/nominated-neighbour-scheme.2 ASB (Anti social behaviour) in CotgraveMeetings with local Cllrs. Youth worker and Town council clerk, discussion around the lack of reporting to Police on ASB issues and how we can encourage more reporting. Social media post put out asking residents to report ASB when they see it and also asking parents to discuss with their children concerns around ASB.Visit to many of the shops on the Cotgrave hub area; spoke to the owners/staff about their perception experiences of ASB in the area, advice given about reporting incidents.Patch walk with staff member from Rushcliffe Borough Council carried out to update on the locations where we believe there may be ASB issues and our plans for dealing with this type of activity.  3 East Leake PrioritySome good work in the last week by the Rushcliffe north and south beat teams along with the local intelligence officer. Intelligence was gathered sufficient to obtain a search warrant from the courts. This warrant was then executed at an address near to Normanton on Soar and resulted in 4 arrests with a large amount of property being recovered, much of this property has been returned to the rightful owners who had been victims of thefts and burglaries. Full details can be found on the Rushcliffe South facebook page.Updates 25/03/20201, Lady bay burglaries priority.Recent police operation in the Rushcliffe area over 2 nights, Friday 13th and Saturday 14th of March resulted in 9 arrests for a variety of offences. The operation included both plain clothed and uniformed officers on mobile and footpatrol. We also used the Force roads policing team to assist us in preventing night time crime.2 ASB (Anti social behaviour) in CotgraveWe have continued to pay attention to the town centre of Cotgrave, with one exception of ASB, which we dealt with very quickly, it has been very calm in this area. We encouraged residents to ring us on 101 to report any issues and also asked parents to speak with their children and make them aware of the problems and to look at their behaviour when out and about. Our partnership work continues around this priority, though this has been carried out via email updating on actions from a partners group set up to address this problem. CCTV cameras have now been installed in the hub area of Cotgrave. 3 East Leake PriorityThe work carried out as detailed in last month's update seems to have the desired affect, with reported crime very much reduced in the East Leake and surrounding area. The local beat manager for East leake continues to monitor the area and patrols on a regular basis.Updates 09 04/2020As per the previous updates dated 25/03/2020 we have now concluded these priorities. We continue to monitor and review reports of crimes that are reported to us, on top of the work we are carrying out in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic, we will take any action we need to with respect to reports of crime on our area.