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Your neighbourhood policing team
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
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
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 Bell forms part of the Horsham Town Team.
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 Mill forms part of the Horsham Town Team.
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 Ross is part of the Horsham Town Team and solely covers this area.
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 Fitzpatrick forms part of the Horsham Town Team
Crimes and priorities
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Retail Crime
Action taken:
The Neighbourhood Policing Team continues to target persistent offenders and engage with partners and local businesses to offer support, conduct preventative work where appropriate and patrol areas of concern.
Our PCSOs visit local retailers offering advice on how to report retail crime which includes shoplifting and abuse towards staff and customers.
Additionally, we support Shop Kind campaigns throughout the year, raising public awareness on retail crime.
We continue to provide support to retailers on signing up to the retail crime reporting system DISC
Shoplifting remains to be a key and prominent issue that affects most shops nearly every single day. When in town, we always pay passing attention to the stores which seem to have the higher number of reports such as Tesco Express, TK Maxx, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We will visit these specific stores whenever on shift and always speak to staff. From doing this, we can get an idea of the number of reported thefts they have had, who the offenders are, and when they have been happening.
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Antisocial Behaviour
Action taken:
The Neighbourhood Policing Team continues to carry out regular patrols, focusing on areas where reports of ASB have been made.
No new reports of ASB has been reported surrounding young people climbing onto rooftops.
Going forwards, we will continue to patrol regularly trying to go at different times in the morning, afternoon and evening to provide reassurance to shop staff and act as a deterrent.
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Cycling on pavements
Action taken:
Our Horsham Town Team continues to work in partnership with Horsham District Council and West Sussex County Council Highways, to improve signage and cycling routes around the town.
We continue to engage and educate cyclists on where they can cycle and issue fines where appropriate.