Your neighbourhood policing team
Local Policing is organised into 3 divisions, each comprising Neighbourhood Policing Teams (NPTs) based within district teams. NPTs provide community engagement, foot patrols and assist local and partnership problem-solving. NPTs are led by a District Commander and comprise sergeants, police officers and PCSOs.
These work with youth, licensing and enforcement officers. Also, investigators, specialists, and police staff within divisions and across Sussex Police support NPTs to protect communities and catch criminals.
Crimes and priorities
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Priority:
Action taken:
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Priority:
Anti-social behaviour (ASB), and youth related crime and disorder (e.g. youth related ASB, large groups or threatening behaviours)
Swiftly responding to incidents of ASB and effectively using policing powers available to intervene - including powers of dispersal where the actions of individuals or groups impact their wider surroundings; which can lead to wider harm, including the misuse of public spaces or buildings, criminal damage or vandalism, for example graffiti or damage to public buildings.
Action taken:
• Continued work alongside partners and youth organisations, including schools and colleges to identify opportunities for early intervention with individuals at risk of causing ASB.
• Additional patrols in local parks, and open green spaces in the area to address and take action against reports of ASB in the form of nuisance caused by youngsters in the area.
• Work continues with roads safety units to conduct enforcement and educational checks in areas of reported ASB driving associated with off road bikes, and e-scooters.
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Priority:
Business Crime
Supporting businesses in targeting repeat offenders, and working to reduce business crime through collaborative work, through both increased patrols, and police and partner led operations to tackle business crime, and bring those responsible to justice.
Action taken:
• Additional patrols under the Summer Of Action; starting soon, aimed offering a high visibility police presence will soon see a number of extra hours spent in the town, with significant arrests for business crime related offences, which will published on social media and on our Sussex Police website when made.
• Successful arrest locally of known male shoplifter, earlier this year 10 counts of shoplifting, charged and issued prison sentence, and the first in Eastbourne to be placed on a 12 months tagging system along with a criminal behaviour order restricting male from entering Co-op.
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Priority:
Acquisitive crime including theft from and theft of motor vehicles.
Action taken:
•Extra patrols focused in areas of reported theft from or of motor vehicles, namely moped/two wheeled vehicles, with patrols aimed at deterring crime and identifying suspects.
•Arrests have been made following recent spate of vehicle crime, details of those published to our Eastbourne Police Facebook page and the Sussex Police news page on our Sussex Police website.