Devon & Cornwall Police tackle anti-social behaviour in Liskeard during Neighbourhood Policing Week
The neighbourhood policing teams in Liskeard, Torpoint, Saltash and Looe, carried out a week of community engagement events in aid of Neighbourhood Policing Week 2024. Neighbourhood Policing Week is an opportunity for polices forces across the country to celebrate the achievements of their neighbourhood policing teams, and to reach out to their communities to share prevention work officers are doing on a daily basis to protect and safeguard the community.
Anti-social behaviour is one of the key priorities for neighbourhood teams across Torpoint, Looe, Saltash, and Liskeard, which prompted the neighbourhood team to hold a community event in Torpoint library in conjunction with Cornwall Council’s Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Caseworker, Kat James, to discuss issues within Torpoint. Torpoint Neighbourhood Beat Manager, Hayley Gething, said: “Torpoint neighbourhood policing team and Cornwall Council are continuously working together to target anti-social behaviour in Torpoint and the surrounding areas. We conduct regular patrols of targeted areas to offer reassurance, and visit identified individuals to prevent any escalation of behaviour. We are committed to making the local area a safe and peaceful place to live and will continue to work together to target anti-social behaviour.”
Neighbourhood Beat Manager Hayley Gething and Cornwall Council’s Anti-Social Behaviour Caseworker Kat James hosting the community event at Torpoint Library.
Over the remainder of the week and alongside their usual duties, Torpoint neighbourhood policing team visited local hotspots for anti-social behaviour to specifically target areas of concern and help safeguard the community.
In Looe, the neighbourhood policing team were joined by the Community Speed Watch Team to conduct speed checks at Widegates on the A387. The group is made up of volunteers from the community who give up their time to help report incidents of speeding to the police in an aim to cut down on road traffic accidents. Seventeen drivers were reported exceeding the 30 MPH speed limit; they were issued with guidance and advice, as well as their details logged.
The Community Speed Watch Team working alongside the Looe neighbourhood policing team to conduct speed checks at Widegates, A387.
PCs Katie Hall and Pete Holland from Saltash neighbourhood policing team were joined by Deputy Mayor, Councillor Julia Peggs from Saltash Town Council at the community ‘Have Your Say’ meeting at the Community Kitchen, to meet with local members of the public and discuss any concerns they had relating to their area. PC Hall and PC Holland were on hand to answer queries and give advice to members of the community about any issues they were experiencing, as well as familiarise local people with their neighbourhood policing team.
In conjunction with Safer Cornwall, Liskeard neighbourhood policing team hosted a pop-up community event in Morrisons on Thursday 25 January. This was an opportunity for shoppers to have a chat with officers and representatives from Safer Cornwall and raise any issues or concerns they had relating to their community. A range of issues were discussed relating to crime, anti-social behaviour, and community safety within the town. This engagement initiative takes place every third Thursday of the month and provides an opportunity for all Safer Liskeard agencies to come together and reach out to the community to understand key areas of concern and establish how to best target resources to resolve those issues. The next pop-up community event will take place on Thursday 29 February from 10am – midday at the Co-Op in Liskeard.
Safer Cornwall representatives working alongside Liskeard’s neighbourhood policing team to deliver a community engagement event in Morrisons Liskeard on Thursday 25 January.
Inspector David Ratcliff said: “Community policing is not only for our neighbourhood policing team. The team work closely and collaboratively with our internal departments and our external partner agencies to deliver a response to what our communities are telling us. Over Neighbourhood Policing Week of Action, we arranged a number of events to give the communities in our sector the opportunity to not only meet the local neighbourhood policing teams and our partner agencies, but also to discuss their concerns in relation to the area that they reside.”
“The engagement from the community has been excellent and the information we have received will now be collated and reviewed. Devon & Cornwall Police and partners will discuss the issues raised with a view of resolving them as efficiently and as timely as possible. The local venues that assisted with the events have been pivotal in making the Neighbourhood Policing Week of Action a success. I know that by working together with our communities and partners, the police will be able to address the likes of anti-social behaviour and serious crimes, such as the use of drugs, in our area effectively."
Neighbourhood Policing Week is a national event which ran from 22nd January – 26th January 2024. The week of action recognised the work that neighbourhood policing teams do every day across the country to actively protect their communities from criminal activities. Liskeard, Looe, Saltash and Torpoint neighbourhood policing teams, and neighbourhood policing teams across Devon & Cornwall Police force, are always there to support their communities in any way they can.
To be the first to hear of information directly from Devon & Cornwall Police, please sign up to Devon & Cornwall alert https://alerts.dc.police.uk/. Additionally, the neighbourhood policing teams in Torpoint, Looe, Saltash, and Liskeard post regular updates on their Facebook pages. To get to know your local dedicated neighbourhood policing team, and read about the priorities in your area, please visit www.devon-cornwall.police.uk/area/your-area/.
To report concerns or non-urgent crimes, please visit our website https://www.devon-cornwall.police.uk/ro/report/ or call 101. If you would like to report crimes anonymously please visit https://crimestoppers-uk.org/give-information/forms/give-information-anonymously. For all emergencies call 999.
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