Your dedicated neighbourhood team
I joined Leicestershire Police in 2008 and have been fortunate to work across a wide range of departments and teams helping set up several teams (Missing from Home Team, Digital Hub and Cybercrime Unit) which are now a core part of the forces service delivery.
I was fortunate enough to be a dedicated neighbourhood officer in 2010 and having spent the last 11 years in a range of Detective Roles I am thoroughly enjoying being back in a public facing uniform role where I hope that my passion and drive to work with and serve the communities of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland helps build those necessary relationships to ensure we can all work together to make this a great place to live and work for our families and communities.
Landing in East Leicester in 2024 I took on responsibility for half of the area and six months later I took on the entirety of the Community Engagement and Neighbourhood Policing for East Leicester. A steep learning curve for sure but having had great support from the local command team and the communities we serve I have learnt plenty and identified plenty more I do not know.
East Leicester has one of the most diverse demographics in the country and it brings its own set of challenges that I will continue to strive to understand and deal with appropriately without fear or favour.
I would ask that the communities of East Leicester look to the police as a part of their community and allow us to do what we need to do locking up those who cause the most harm and safeguarding those who need it.
My motto will always be that when we have to “police to our community” it means we have failed. What we should aim to do is police as part of the community.
Crimes and priorities
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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
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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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Drugs related crimes has been highlighted from surveys as being a priority for the respondents in the Rushey Mead are
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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.