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:
Drug related crime (e.g. drug taking, drug dealing, or OCGs)
Targeting drug related crime in your town through intelligence, enforcement and partnership work.
Action taken:
•Police continue to offer additional high visibility patrols in areas of reported drug use, and drug related issues including discarded drug paraphernalia, with officers paying passing attention to areas reported by residents as 'cut throughs' used regularly by drug dealers.
•A number of Police led operations, targeting known areas of drug use and drug dealing, as well as partnership work around known addresses causing drug harm in your area have taken place in the last few months, results have been published to our Sussex Police website.
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Anti-social driving (e.g. speeding, nuisance or noisy vehicles, cycles or e-scooters on the pavement)
Taking action and addressing community concerns around road and driving related offences that fall into the fatal 5 driving offences.
Action taken:
•Officers continue to work with local authorities and partners, including volunteer Community Speed Watch Groups to support activities in the area.
•Additional high visibility patrols and deployments across the area to identify and deter ASB driving.
•Using powers available to officers, a number of Section 59 warnings have been issued to to individuals causing both ASB driving in the last few months. (Issued to drivers of vehicles being used in a manner causing alarm, distress, or annoyance, or in a careless/inconsiderate way).