Your dedicated neighbourhood team
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.
Crimes and priorities
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Local Police are aiming to reduce burglaries around the Loughborough East beat.
Action taken:
There has been a slight rise in residential and commercial burglaries towards the end of 2024.
The beat team will be looking to reduce these with the use of high visibility patrols in targeted areas. We will look to liaise with the community in those affected areas to provide crime prevention advice and discuss security measures.
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Police are developing and targeting people within the area that are drug dealing, exploiting vulnerable people by cuckooing addresses and causing anti-social behaviour from this type of crime.
Action taken:
Drug dealing and exploitation of vulnerable people remains a priority for the beat team.
We continue to gather intelligence from the community, providing a robust response by executing search warrants and proactively looking to stop those we believe to be dealing drugs, applying any necessary closures order to stop the criminality and protect the public.
There are currently 3 active Closure Order relating to addresses linked to vulnerability and County Lines drug dealing. There are another 2 in the pipeline as we are proactively looking to disrupt those drug lines running through the community through such measures as Closure Orders and warrants.
Officers have been focusing attention on the Steeple Row area of Loughborough in relation to drug taking/dealing and street drinking. There have been a number of people detained, stop checked and arrested by officers in relation to drug possession and other linked offences. Investigations are ongoing and this will continue to be monitored. Officers will be updating the public on the work ongoing in that area. A Problem Management Plan has been implemented for that area and the beat team continue to patrol, with continued support from our specialist colleagues.
Update:
December has seen the beat team continue to conduct work to disrupt county lines, working on future closure orders for other addresses and visiting those for compliance checks that already have closure orders in place. -
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Police aim to tackle different elements of vehicles crime such as theft, TWOC and ASB caused by vehicles
Action taken:
Police aim to tackle vehicle crime by the use of dedicated patrols, both overt and covert in effort to reduce crime use of ASB with vehicles, disruption tactics on a wider scale using specialist officers.
Theft and associated offences will be targeted by pursuing reasonable lines of enquiry to assist identify and prosecute offenders in a timely manner. There have been 2x arrests made this month relating to Theft of Motor vehicles - the investigations continue.
Community engagement continues within the Beat and a specific Police operation is in place to tackle vehicle crime in the area
Dedicated patrols remain ongoing, at times with support from our specialist colleagues (traffic and dog handling) to specifically target the areas of concern around vehicle crime. These will be published on our Facebook page to update the public that these take place.
Update:
There has unfortunately been an increase in vehicle related crime over the festive period. The team will continue to actively patrol the area and build intelligence to deal with offenders of vehicle related crime robustly. Whilst this has increased, this will remain a priority for the team.