Local Policing Teams
Your Local Policing Team 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 across the county who work together to improve the safety and well-being of people, places and communities across Staffordshire.
We work closely with local authorities, community leaders and residents to decide our policing priorities for your area. This helps us to find useful, long-term solutions to local problems, while maintaining our force vision of creating a safer Staffordshire.
Crimes and priorities
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Priority:
Action taken:
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Priority:
Car cruising and the associated traffic offences/anti-social behaviour (ASB) on various areas centred around the the A34.
Action taken:
Regular operations by the Road Crime Team targeting vehicles for speeding, anti-social behaviour and any breaches of Public Space Protection Orders supplemented by dedicated officers at peak times to proactively police and deter vehicles from car cruising. Vehicles to be seized and fines issued where offences identified. CCTV used to retrospectively to identify and prosecute any offences identified. Joint working with partners including Road Safety Camera teams, and Newcastle under Lyme Borough Council continues.
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Priority:
Nuisance, off-road motorcycles on greenways and surrounding roads.
Action taken:
Working with partners, we are collating details of bikes and descriptions of offenders. Through the use of CCTV, drones and fixed wing aircraft in conjunction with our road crime officers to track and locate offending off-road bikes and offenders, a number of vehicle seizures and prosecutions have been made. We are continuing to use anti-social behaviour legislation to seize and destroy bikes as well as issuing Community Protection Warnings/Notices to tackle repeat offenders.
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Priority:
Drug use and supply and associated criminality.
Action taken:
Closure Orders to be taken out on problem addresses where drug use and supply are identified. This is ongoing work with calls monitored and problem locations/suspects identified and heard at problem solving meetings. Both uniformed and plain clothes officers are operating in the area to offer both proactive policing and a visible deterrence. Intelligence will be used to target drug supply lines and exploitation through use of Stop Search Powers and drugs warrants.
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Priority:
Theft and shoplifting offences within local stores
Action taken:
Where repeat locations are identified, officers will work with stores and the Early Intervention and Prevention Unit to offer crime prevention advice.
Calls will be monitored on a daily basis with a view to identifying and prosecuting offenders. Bail conditions, Community Protection Notices/Warnings and Criminal Behaviour Orders to be used where repeat offenders are identified.