Loughborough East

Local Police are aiming to reduce theft from motor vehicles around the Loughborough East beat.

There has been a decrease in reports of theft from motor vehicles across the beat following targeted neighbourhood patrol activity. Neighbourhood officers will continue to work proactively to identify offenders, develop intelligence, and reduce opportunities for crime through high-visibility patrols, crime prevention activity, and community engagement.

Targeted patrols have been conducted in areas previously identified as being most affected, particularly during periods when offences were more likely to occur. These patrols have provided a visible police presence, helped deter offending, and contributed to the reduction in reported incidents. Officers continue to review crime reports to identify patterns, repeat locations, and potential suspects, making use of CCTV, witness accounts, forensic opportunities, and intelligence submissions where available to support investigations.

Engagement has taken place with residents to provide practical crime prevention advice, including ensuring vehicles are locked and secure, removing valuables from sight, avoiding leaving items on display, and checking that keys are stored safely away from entry points within the home. Officers are also encouraging residents to report any suspicious persons or vehicles seen in residential areas, car parks, or near parked vehicles.

This activity will continue through intelligence-led patrols, proactive investigations, and ongoing community engagement to maintain the reduction in offending and provide reassurance to the community. Beat surgeries will continue across the area, giving residents the opportunity to raise concerns directly with officers and receive tailored crime prevention advice aimed at protecting their vehicles and property.

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.

Officers continue to use intelligence-led policing to identify offenders, safeguard vulnerable residents, and work with partner agencies to tackle drug-related crime. Community information remains vital in helping us identify those involved.

Update: During the last month, officers have conducted welfare visits to several vulnerable individuals believed to be at risk of cuckooing. Three addresses were identified as key concerns, and officers are working with the council on closure orders and evictions. We have also arrested a number of persons from Tuckers Road and Charnwood Water seizing class a drugs.

What this means for residents: Tackling cuckooing helps protect vulnerable members of the community, reduces anti-social behaviour, and improves neighbourhood safety. We encourage anyone with information about drug activity or exploitation to continue reporting it to police.

Police aim to tackle different elements of vehicles crime such as theft, TWOC and ASB caused by vehicles

Dedicated overt and covert patrols remain a key priority across the beat, supported by specialist units including Roads Policing officers and dog handlers. Targeted operations are focused on tackling drug driving, disrupting criminal activity linked to vehicle use, and improving road safety for local communities.

Update: During the last month, officers have carried out a number of proactive road safety and vehicle crime operations across the area. This has resulted in:

• Several traffic offence reports being issued.

• Multiple vehicles being seized for offences including no insurance and other road traffic matters.

• A number of drug driving arrests being made, with several offenders successfully prosecuted at court for driving whilst over the prescribed drug limit.

• Further arrests linked to vehicle-related offending and intelligence-led activity.

• Additional vehicle seizures as part of ongoing efforts to disrupt criminality and remove vehicles being used unlawfully.

Officers continue to conduct stop checks and searches of vehicles linked to suspected criminality, using intelligence and community information to target those causing the greatest harm. These proactive operations remain a policing priority and will continue throughout the coming months.

What this means for residents: These operations help make local roads safer, remove uninsured and offending drivers from the road network, reduce anti-social driving, and disrupt wider criminal activity linked to vehicle use. Through ongoing enforcement and high-visibility patrols, officers are committed to improving road safety and providing reassurance to residents across the beat.