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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Action taken:
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Road Safety - results from "my views" survey conducted by the local team, via Neighbourhood Link, and recent calls recieved indicate that this is a priority concern in Rushey Mead - with speeding
Action taken:
Our team will be planning speeding, road traffic offending and vehicle check operations across the Rushey Mead area throughout the coming months.
We understand that there was issues in with car meets at Sainsburys Melton Road and the associated anti-social behaviour and speeding. Your will see signs up in locations historically attracting these issues and we will be enforcing with our legal powers, including Sec59 of the Police Reform Act 2002, and Road Traffic Act legislation.
Please contact the team if you have any concerns.
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Street drinking in the Rushey Mead area has been reported by residents
Action taken:
Our Dedicated Neighbourhood Officers will look to focus on dealing with these reports and the types of anti-social behaviour associated with this.
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The local team have completed work and patrols in identified areas and are looking to take appropriate action against those involved. This will involve the incremental process in line with anti-social behaviour.
We conduct patch walks with individuals from partner agencies to ensure a multi agency response to concerns of anti-social behaviour to support those involved. We will continue to arrange these meetings and listen to the concerns of residents.
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Priority:
Drugs related crimes has been highlighted from surveys as being a priority for the respondents in the Rushey Mead are
Action taken:
We will actively encourage reporting of such crimes to Leicestershire Police.
We will continue to educate the public on the signs of cannabis cultivation - please report to us if you have suspicions as often they are inherently dangerous and fire risk.
We will act on intelligence and information that we gather ourselves or that is reported to us by the public, to prevent drugs being cultivated, sold, and used.
We will use our legal powers to deal with those responsible for the cultivation, production or sale of drugs.