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Your Dedicated Neighbourhood Team (DNT) is a group of local police officers dedicated to serving your community. The team is made up of officers based in your area, supported by additional officers from the wider area.
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 Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
Priority: Drug dealing and use particularly around residential properties being used to facilitate this.
You Said: Those involved in drug dealing/use are a concern for you, particularly where properties are being used by them in residential areas near where you live.
What we are going to do: We will continue to take action against those who allow their properties to be used by drug users and dealers using the powers we have along with our partners and we will ensure the properties do not fall back into the same situation.
Issued 01 January 2025
January saw the team seize over 500 cannabis plants following a number of police enforcements on addresses in the community. A male was arrested and charged for the offence. Whilst this sort of action directly impacts those committing crime by removing their plants and equipment, it also grows our intelligence picture of who is pulling the strings behind the scenes. The information we receive from you is a massive part of this so please keep reporting any suspicious activity that you notice.
Inevitably when we take action against those who profit from drugs we come across vulnerable people too, and we are always careful to strike the right balance between taking robust action against offenders whilst supporting those who need it and are trying to escape from this life.
We have continued to target some of the factors that allow drug users and dealers to operate, mainly unused residential properties. These properties allow for homeless drug users to gather and take their drugs and can also act as meeting places for the dealers to supply their drugs out of sight. This has led to a concerted effort by the team to stop these addresses being used. Meetings are being organised with our partners to establish how we can speed up the process of removing people from empty properties and what we can put in place to prevent them from returning whilst respecting the legal obstacles.
Each time we engage with those who have been using an empty property we remember who they are so that we can complete follow up visits to make sure they have every opportunity to use the support mechanisms in place to move them away from that lifestyle. The team will actively go out and find these people at their usual haunts rather than wait for them to end up somewhere they shouldn’t be to try and stop them reaching the point where they are committing crime and ASB.
Actioned 01 February 2025
Priority: Antisocial Behaviour
You said: Antisocial Behaviour including those congregating to drink alcohol and make noise, youths preventing you from being able to relax in your own homes and businesses.
What we are going to do: We are following up on the warnings we have given out and escalating them where we find those committing ASB have not complied with the warnings they were given. A community meeting is in the process of being planned to ensure the steps we take remain relevant to you.
Issued 01 January 2025
During January we handed out a number of Acceptable Behaviour Contract’s (ABC's) to some offenders who were persistently attending at a block of flats despite being warned not to. An ABC is a step in our incremental approach which is designed to give a perpetrator an opportunity to improve their behaviour with repercussions if they do not. Repercussions include escalation of various measures up to a court order preventing them from attending at a location.
We regularly engage with the people who have been issued with warning notices for antisocial behaviour to ensure they do not fall back into their ways and are reminded of the consequences of offending. We have been monitoring the places you have reported to us including the people drinking around Bede Park, Paton Street and Wilberforce Road as well as other areas. A lot of the people we have engaged with reacted well to some verbal advice however for those who didn’t we will be revisiting the areas and if they are found there again we will be escalating our approach to them.
The team is continuing to drive down the ASB at Ashleigh Gardens. We appreciate the nuisance you have had to put up with but we have been working with our partners in the council and we are seeing good progress, work on the new gates has started which is going to go a long way to preventing the ASB from occurring.
A male who was arrested for breaching his Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) was remanded into custody. This is the result of him not complying with his conditions that have been put in place to manage his offending and will give our local businesses a break from him.
Actioned 01 February 2025
You said: We have had some burglaries recently and this is causing you concern.
What we are going to do: We know who the burglars are, the repeat offenders who keep coming to our attention, we are going to do what we can to prevent their reoffending. This is easier said than done but that doesn’t stop us putting in every measure we can. Alongside the rehabilitation and support mechanisms we always push, we are going to act on the patterns that make it clear to us who is committing these crimes and when we collate the evidence we need we will put the offenders before the court again. Burglary is a very intrusive crime that leaves a lasting impact on those who are victims of it and it does not sit well with us that the people who commit these crimes are out there causing harm to you. To that end rest assured that we are working tirelessly to stop them.
Issued 01 January 2025
A male has been identified and arrested for a burglary thanks to the team recognising him from the Ring Doorbell footage of him attempting to break in. This goes to show the importance of having strong security measures on your property. Thanks to this footage numerous other properties have been saved from being broken into by this male.
You may have seen our PCSO’s out at their beat surgeries providing burglary prevention advice. Visit the relevant section of this website to see when our next one is and pop along to tell us about any concerns you have and to listen to the advice the team want to share with you.
A male who committed 20 thefts from shops in Westcotes has been arrested and charged. Our businesses were subject to a string of offences at the hands of this one male so with him now in custody we hope to see some respite.
If you have any concerns or suspicions always reach out to us so we can look into it. If we keep working together we'll stay one step ahead of those who are committing these crimes.
Actioned 01 February 2025