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James joined Sussex Police in 2004 and has dedicated his career to protecting communities. As a Police Constable and Sergeant, he spent his early years in Brighton in a variety of uniformed roles, including Response, Investigations, Neighbourhood Policing and Community Safety. This diverse experience provided him with a solid foundation in all aspects of police work.
After becoming an Inspector, James spent several years as a Critical Incident Inspector before becoming a Firearms Commander. He later transitioned to lead the Children and Young Persons Team, focusing on supporting and diverting children away from the Criminal Justice system.
In November 2023, James moved to West Sussex Division as a Chief Inspector, and in April 2024, he became the District Commander for Adur, Worthing and Horsham. In this role, he is responsible for leading Response Policing, who attend emergency and priority incidents across the District. In addition, he oversees the Neighbourhood Policing Teams, which work closely with local partners to tackle the more entrenched issues within the community.
Alongside his current role James is an accredited Force Critical Incident Manager, the Business Crime Lead for West Sussex and maintains an active role as a Force Tactical Firearms Commander.
The Neighbourhood Inspector has overall responsibility for the entire neighbourhood policing team of Sergeants, Police Constables, PCSOs and police staff. They are responsible for delivering on neighbourhood policing strategies, directing the deployment of the team and developing relationships with partners and key stakeholders, to enable the neighbourhood policing team to work effectively.
The Neighbourhood Sergeant provides frontline leadership to coordinate neighbourhood team activity, and works with the community, partners and other colleagues to deliver safer neighbourhoods.
This includes directing problem solving and engagement activity, and being responsive to community needs.
Sergeant Broome is also the Town Team Sergeant and also covers the following areas
- Horsham Town
- Broadbridge Heath
- Denne
- Trafalgar
The Neighbourhood Sergeant provides front line leadership to coordinate neighbourhood team activity, and works with the community, partners and other colleagues to deliver safer neighbourhoods.
This includes directing problem solving and engagement activity, and being responsive to community needs.
Sergeant Hammond covers the following areas
- Nuthurst
- Lower Beeding
- Southwater
- Itchingfield
- Slinfold
- Rudgwick
- Warnham
- Rusper
- Colgate
- Broadbridge Heath
- Holbrook East and West
- North Horsham
- Forest
PCSOs provide a visible, accessible and approachable uniformed presence in the community, using designated powers where needed, deterring and preventing crime, and tackling antisocial behaviour.
They are problem solvers and work with partners, where needed, to address local issues.
PCSO Berriman covers the following areas
- Broadbridge Heath
- Denne
- Trafalger
PCSOs provide a visible, accessible and approachable uniformed presence in the community, using designated powers where needed, deterring and preventing crime, and tackling antisocial behaviour.
They are problem solvers and work with partners, where needed, to address local issues.
PCSO Laws covers the following areas
- Forest
- Lower Beeding
- Mannings Heath
- Nuthurst
- Maplehurst
Police Constables work in the community to tackle local issues and crimes. They provide a visible, accessible and approachable uniformed presence in the community, and are responsive to local needs.
They take a problem solving approach to issues, work with partners, focus on engagement and target their activity where it is needed most.
PC Bailey covers the following areas
- Billingshurst
- Slinfold
- Rudgwick
- Holbrook
- Rusper
- Ifield Green
- Warnham
- North Heath
- Roffey
- Colgate
- Kilnwood Vale
- Faygate
- Forest
- Lower Beeding
- Mannings Heath
- Nuthurst
- Maplehurst
- Horsham Town
Police Constables work in the community to tackle local issues and crimes. They provide a visible, accessible and approachable uniformed presence in the community, and are responsive to local needs.
They take a problem solving approach to issues, work with partners, focus on engagement and target their activity where it is needed most.
PC Knight covers the following areas
- Broadbridge Heath
- Denne
- Trafalgar
- Steyning
- Bramber
- Upper Beeding
- Wiston
- Ashurst
- Storrington
- Washington
- Ashington
- Amberly
- Horsham Town
This map uses data from local forces. The hotspots give only a loose idea of where crimes happened. Actual locations and details of crimes are kept anonymous.
Please note that not all crimes that occurred can be shown on the map.
343 incidents of Crime occurred in Sussex Police could not be mapped to a location and therefore are not on this map. Learn more about how data is managed on police.uk.
Location anonymisation is accurate to 2012 and 2022 population and housing developments.
Known issues with forces' data are set out in the changelog on data.police.uk.