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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Drugs - Proactive patrols and intelligence gathering are ongoing across the estate. The beat team continues to target those who are known to be dealing and taking illegal drugs.
Action taken:
An address in the Saffron Lane estate has recently been brought to the attention of the local team after reports were made relating to drug activity within the property and in the surrounding area. Patrols and enquires have been made locally to identify those involved and partnership work with council is underway to identify and deal with the tenant
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We have been made aware of a number of vehicles parked across the estate which don't have relevant documents, and also e-scooters, bikes and vehicles moving dangerously and in an anti-social manner.
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Five vehicles have been seized in the Freemen beat area this month for being driven on the public road without the correct insurance under the Section 165 policing power. The rule is simple if you do not have the correct documentation to operate a vehicle and you are caught by police it will be taken and further action could be taken
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We have been made aware of continued Anti-Social Behaviour in the green spaces across the Freemen beat. Officers will be visiting local schools and reconnecting with businesses on the beat.
We are continuing with this priority as the evenings are getting lighter.Action taken:
Patrols in open space areas have continued during the summer months, aside from issues in The Wash-Brook Nature Reserve there have been no ongoing problems that have required significant resources. Enquires where made to identify those involved when a fire was set in this area using local CCTV but sadly no suspects were identified, patrols have taken place to deter any repeat offences which has appeared to have prevented this from happening again.