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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Speeding.
Through meetings and consultation with our communities we have identified that speeding vehicles is a priority for the people of Uppingham.Action taken:
The Rutland Community Speed Watch programme continues to grow village by village and we continue to work with Rutland County Council to train volunteers. For Rutland we have Stretton, Ryhall, Essendine, Cottesmore, Langham with Market Overton with Whissendine already established. South Luffenham, Caldecott, Edith Weston, Uppingham volunteer have been trained and started speed monitoring in early September 23. If this is something that you would be interested in please contact your Parish Council to find out more.
We have created an enforcement campaign ‘Operation Enforce’ to address speeding and anti-social driving/riding. We have been out in villages and towns with the speed laser gun and have reported a number of drivers. In partnership with Rutland County Council and the fire service we had some really productive engagement with motorcyclists in 2022. This August we conducted an engagement with Harley- Davidson will continue this throughout 2023 with our presence at motorcycle dealerships and local pubs where they gather on certain days of the month to socialise. -
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Anti-social behaviour.
Through meetings and consultation with our communities we have identified that addressing anti-social behaviour is a priority for the people of Uppingham.Action taken:
Tods piece continues to be location for anti- social behaviour. We have listened to people living nearby and continued patrols especially in the evenings (the CCTV is now fixed that covers the area so that should have a positive effect too). This includes other parks and areas of note that youths are known to gather.
Our partnership messages to young people around ASB are communicated via every medium at our disposal including face to face chats and frequent school visits. -
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Drugs issues.
Through meetings and consultation with our communities we have identified that the people of Uppingham are concerned about drugs misuse ant potentially drug dealing in and around Uppingham town.Action taken:
Sometimes linked in with the anti-social behaviour priority, the beat team continue to team up with local response officers patrolling potential drug dealing areas (although only a few identified). This benefits us as a beat team as our response officers are on duty 24/7 early hours. If you hear of anything you wish to report to help us with our patrol strategy and intelligence picture around the drugs issue please get in touch. We work closely with Rutland County Council and a number of housing providers to identify addresses involved in suspected drug use and take action when needed. If you've got anything you want to bring to our attention do it via our website or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111