Neighbourhood Policing

The Safer Streets programme invested in additional resources to the local Neighbourhood Policing team (NPT) to ensure that they could do more, additional focused action during the duration of the Safer Streets delivery.

Members of the NPT increased visibility and were an active participant in the operational work of Safer Streets. The team attended community events and drop-ins and supported the door-to-door visits with partner organisations to reach the thousands of households in the target area. Perhaps 2000 households were leafleted, with hundreds of hours of partner time and this allowed Police to continue their Humber Talking engagement with residents and to encourage further signup to My Community Alert.

The Police invested in a good number of days of action in the East Marsh, including use of drug dogs; raids specifically targeting drugs and OCG’s and numerous plain clothes patrols. East Marsh hosted a visit from Operation Medusa to tackle OCGs locally and Operation Yellowfin continued tackling motorbike crime in the area.

The Police were of course also instrumental in providing local intelligence to ensure Safer Streets interventions such as new CCTV or increased lighting could focus on the most relevant areas.

Targeted days of action in East Marsh

There were increased referrals to youth offending teams and there was extensive ‘joined up’ partnership working across the area.

With the installation of 11 new CCTV cameras across East Marsh, all patched into the central control room, Police have been able to proactively increase interventions in the area and gather more and more useful intelligence.

Early statistics indicate that burglary rates in the East Marsh are some of the lowest they have been in years and have dropped further over the past year. Some of the Safer Streets intensive activity and community engagement will have been making a real difference.

A couple of members of the Policing team were very hands on with local community sports and fitness projects including the boxing activity in Grant Thorold Park and starting up a new Forces Fitness adults activity group. This not only directly benefits the residents involved but improves the connection between the community and the policing teams even closer.

Police and community working together

Police also supported specific activities such as a Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) walk (handing out personal alarms funded through the Safer Streets ‘cache’) and a local Pride event.
Police feedback was that the overall engagement with the community has increased during the programme resulting in greater intelligence and positive resident feedback.

Proudly policing the East Marsh
The local Hamilton Police Station supporting the East Marsh

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