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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You have told us that domestic burglary is a priority.
Action taken:
We have conducted patrols both covert and overt in the area, we have visited the Fairfield Estate and completed burglary cocooning and offered safety advice. We have undertaken community safety meetings and ensured intel is shared across all local NPA's to try an identify suspects.
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You have told us that Anti-Social behaviour causes you concern. This can be things like excessive noise, parties, smoking drugs and more. We will be working with partners to ensure we can tackle these issues and prevent them occurring again.
Action taken:
The beat team have also conducted Patrols and Beat events around the area of Tesco and Blaby Road Park as a reassurance to the community. The beat team have also visited South Wigston College where we have liaised with the college about educating young people about the dangers of Knife Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour.
The local beat team have been monitoring issues around Gloucester Crescent regarding Parking issue where we have advised motorists about the issues caused to the local residents.
The Beat team have also spoken to various young people around Gloucester Crescent about the issue with Anti Social Behaviour near to the shops and the park. Having spoken to individuals and also teamed with local Partners with the Council who also played a part in reducing ASB. -
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You told us that you were concerned about vehicle crime. This can be theft of motor vehicles or theft from motor vehicles, this also includes theft of tools from vans and theft of catalytic convertors.
Action taken:
We conduct regular patrols of the areas where offences have occurred, we also use covert and overt tactics to target offences and this has already resulted in arrested and recovery of property. We will continue to do this going forward, particularly into the winter months when nights are darker.
We have recently purchased, with support of the community safety partnership, crime prevention items. These include number plate screws, to make it harder to steal number plates as well as faraday pouches. The pouches are available at our crime prevention events or from the police stations. Please check our events for when beat meetings/crime prevention events are happening. If you have concerns about crime in your area please contact your local team.