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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During a recently attending ward meeting, Police were told by residents that they concerned around the poor parking demonstrated by some members of the public during school drop off and pick up times, schools report this to us to and its genuinely a danger to the young children attending school.
Action taken:
Planned engagement with schools at pick up and drop off times. Planned engagement with children within the schools to educate them around road safety and enforcement will be taken against drivers who persistently park on zig zags, or dangerously during school pick up and drop off.
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During the coming summer months there is concerns around the increase of ASB, thefts, assaults and general intimidation caused to youths within Spinney Park
Action taken:
Your beat team will be frequently in the park during the summer months as a deterrent to offending. We will be engaging with the public and taking robust action against any persons found to be committing this type of behaviour.
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We've received reports from the public that drug dealing is taken place within the highfields area.
Action taken:
Your beat team and our proactive team will be patrolling the area 24 hours a day, gathering intelligence, conducting stop searches of persons found to be dealing and executing warrants based on intelligence gathered with a view to reducing this offending.