Neighbourhood Policing Team
Your Neighbourhood Policing Team is a group of Durham Constabulary police officers and Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) dedicated to serving your community.
We work closely with residents and partners to decide our policing priorities for the area and to solve problems. We detect and prevent crime and disorder and aim to build safer, more cohesive communities.
Crimes and priorities
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Priority:
Action taken:
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Priority:
Anti Social Behaviour (ASB)
Including Areas;
Yarm Road Retail Park
Lingfield
Skerne Park
Middleton St George
Action taken:
The Neighbourhood Police Team continue to tackle anti-social behaviour in your area. We monitor call levels and speak to the public to identify areas where anti-social behaviour is taking place.
We are working with our partners to ensure that the people who are causing ASB are held to account.
As a result and working alongside our partners Darlington’s ASB Prevention Team, 5 Anti-Social behaviour Agreements have been issued to youths causing ASB in our area.
We continue to conduct High visibility patrols in known hotspot areas to identify youths causing ASB.
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Priority:
Illegal Off-Road Bikes and Electric Motorcycles
Action taken:
We understand the ongoing issues with illegal Off-Road Bikes and Electric Motorcycles that continue to cause harm to the community. The Neighbourhood Policing Team are continuously working to identify these drivers and where these bikes are being stored.
We continue to run Operation Endurance working alongside our Roads Police Unit to target, seize Off- Road/Electric Motorcycles and prosecute the riders. This enforcement approach has led to successful seizures and ultimately the confiscation and crushing of many vehicles over the last few months.
As well as carrying Operation Endurance, the Neighbourhood Policing Team continue to conduct regular patrols in the areas of known hotspots.
Recently working with Darlington Borough Council, large boulders have now been placed along Lakeside, where they had been reports of vehicles driving around the field and now due to restricted the access, vehicles are no longer able to drive onto the field. -
Priority:
Vehicle Crime
Action taken:
There has been an increase in Vehicle related crime such as Theft from a Motor vehicle and Theft of a Motor Vehicle. As a Neighbourhood Policing Team were offer Safer Homes Equipment to those who are in need for extra security equipment.
The Neighbourhood Policing Team are passionate about catching and prosecuting those individuals who commit these crimes in our area, we continue to conduct high visibility patrols as well as conducting Plain Clothes Operations.
In the last month, the Neighbourhood Policing Team have recovered numerous stolen vehicles and arrested suspects involved in these type of crimes.
Please continue to report any suspicious persons in your area and if you feel you could benefit from extra security equipment please contact your local PCSO or pop along to Firthmoor Police Station.