Loughborough South

We will seek to identify the riders and drivers who are committing offences and deal with them

This will remain a policing priority over the coming months, The beat team have been dedicated to working with the community in order to pro-actively tackle nuisance motorbikes by listening to information provided by the local community and taking positive steps in order to trace offenders.

Police will aim to tackle vehicle related ASB through the use of Targeted patrols and Problem Management Profiles and work with partner agencies. This will be targeted patrols to disrupt the use of ASB with vehicles, disruption tactics on a wider scale using specialist officers.

Several bikes have been recovered and removed from use. This has partly been due to more reporting by the public on Neighbourhood Link and via 101.

Update from the previous 3 months:

The overall amount of incidents reported have been less, but patrols continue to be conducted. Vehicles continue to be seized, some after failing to stop for the Police with the occupants arrested.

Update:
The beat team have been conducting regular patrols around the beat and following up sightings of people on motorbikes in an attempt to identify them. Across Charnwood, colleagues from the Roads Policing Unit have been assisting in catching some of these individuals responsible and we thank the public for taking the time to report these matters.

Some good work last week from response officers who located two stolen bikes at an address on the Shelthorpe and arrested a male. A thank you to the community for assisting with our enquiries in relation to this.

At the end of September, the team recovered a stolen bike and were able to return it to its owner. The team have also been engaging with the community and reports of nuisance bikes have decreased. Coming into the winter months, we anticipate that this trend will continue but we will continue to patrol the areas where we have problems.

Our focus will now shift to other issues on the beat and we've no doubt when the better weather returns that these issues will reappear and we will deal with them as quickly and robustly as we can.

Retail theft on the beat has increased significantly compared to last year.

The beat team will work with local retailers to ensure the offences are reported to us and evidence gathered in a timely manner to pursue persistent offenders.
Officers have visited the stores that are suffering the most thefts, providing a visible presence. They have been ensuring all evidence is collected in a timely manner to ensure investigations proceed without delay once offenders are identified.

At the beginning of April 2024 a new beat priority was created for Theft from local stores, in the three months this has been a priority for local beat officers we have continued to work with many stores within shelthorpe mainly along Park road.

Police enforced a full closure order on an address on park road and from there the council then sought possession of the property back, this was partly to do with theft from local stores and we had very positive feedback from the stores due to this.
The police have held meetings with management from stores in order to build working relationships and improve tactics in order to reduce offending.
A male who had been targeting One Stop, Ling Road over a number of days, committing over 15 thefts was caught and remanded into custody. We will continue to support our retailers, continue with our regular patrols and tackle those who cause harm.

The beat team continue with patrols and gathering evidence. Thefts compared to last month are down 40%, mainly due to some prolific shop lifters being caught and sentenced by the courts.

Shoplifting across the beat is down 75% compared to last month which is very encouraging. This is in part related to the arrest of prolific offenders, increased patrols and better working with the retail businesses.

We've seen a small increase in retail theft across the beat and are working closely with one of our large retailers to target these individuals and hope to identify them soon.

There has been an increase in burglaries on the beat.

The beat team have been doing regular patrols in the area and a suspect has been arrested in relation to burglaries within Charnwood. We will continue to patrol the beat regularly.

Patrols have been increased, with assistance sought from our priority team to help out. Leaflet drops have been conducted in the areas of the burglaries, offering crime prevention advice and some window alarms which have been given out.
There have been 2 people arrested in relation to the burglaries on our beat and we hope this will have a positive impact. We will continue to focus on this issue and ask that residents remain vigilant.

Burglaries are down across the beat on last month, mainly attributable to targeting the right people. With Christmas approaching we will step up our burglary patrols within the beat.