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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Priority:
Action taken:
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Priority:
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:
Gathering intelligence from the community, providing a robust response by executing search warrants, applying any necessary closures order to stop the criminality and protect the public.
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Priority:
Local Police are aiming to reduce burglaries at domestic dwelling in the area.
Action taken:
Local Officers will engage with the community proving crime prevention advice, encourage the use of security measures to make properties more secure. Attending reports of burglaries to secure any evidence and pursue reasonable lines of enquiries to identify any offenders.
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Priority:
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 Problem management profiles. This will be targeted patrol times to disrupt the 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