DEREHAM SAFER NEIGHBOURHOOD TEAM UPPER WENSUM WARD www..police.uk May 2021

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UPDATE FROM YOUR ENGAGEMENT OFFICER WHAT’S HAPPENING IN YOUR AREA?

PC 898 PAULA GILLULEY Following on from their recent Safer Neighbourhood Action Panel (SNAP) meeting, TEL: 07766990802 your local Beat Managers have been out and E: [email protected] about tackling their new priorities of Drug Misuse, Speeding in the Villages around In Breckland we are fortunate to have over 20 and Anti-social Behaviour. Your Community Speedwatch (CSW) Groups, teams local Beat Managers have been carrying out of volunteers who work in partnership with reassurance patrols alongside Breckland Norfolk Police in helping to keep our roads District Council Covid Marshalls as safe. Now that restrictions are starting to lift businesses re-open and they have also our CSW groups are resuming their monitoring carried out road safety patrols included speed and recording of vehicle speeds in their area checks in , Toftwood and and we would like to take this opportunity to Dereham. A male has been Summonsed to establish new Teams and additional volunteers Court for Possession with Intent to Supply in already established Teams. Community Class B drugs and another male has also Speedwatch was established in 2007 and been Summonsed to Court for Possession of empowers communities to take an active part Class A drugs. If you have any information or in tackling the problem of speeding vehicles in concerns around drug misuse in the their neighbourhoods. Norfolk Police will community you can report this to Police via provide all equipment and full training and our online reporting forms at volunteer Teams can carry out as many or as www.norfolk.police.uk or anonymously at few sessions as they feel comfortable with. If www.crimestoppers-uk.org. you would like more information please contact me at [email protected]

CURRENT NEIGHBOURHOOD PRIORITIES DATE OF NEXT SNAP MEETING

• Tackling Drug Misuse Wednesday 4th August 2021 at 7pm • Tackling Speeding in the Villages A decision on whether this meeting will be held online • Tackling ASB in Dereham or face to face will be published in July

May 2021

DEREHAM SAFER NEIGHBOURHOOD TEAM UPPER WENSUM WARD : Encompassing: , , Twyford, Lyng, North Elmham, , , Billingford, , , Bylaug, , , , www.norfolk.police.uk

CRIME UPDATES (April 2021)

Offence Numbers What could this entail

Arson 0 Damage caused as a result of fire. Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Harassment, alarm or distress is caused in a non-crime incident. 0 Burglary business and community A person commits theft in a building or structure that is not lived in. 0

Burglary residential 0 Entry and theft in a building or a structure that is lived in. Criminal Damage A person destroys or damages property belonging to someone else. 1 Domestic Domestic incidents where a crime has not occurred. Parties are aged 16 or 2 over and have been intimate partners or family members regardless of

Hate Incident Any incident where a crime has not occurred which the victim, or anyone else, thinks is based on someone’s prejudice towards them because of their race, 0 religion, sexual orientation, disability or because they are transgender.

Race or Religious aggravated public fear Any crime determined to have a hate element as per above. 0 Possession of controlled substance Unlawful possession of a drug classified in class A, B or C. 0

Possession of weapons 0 Unlawful possession of an article used as a weapon. Public fear, alarm or distress Public order offences e.g. from a verbal altercation to offences just short of 1 Robbery Includes a range of offences where force is used, threatened or the victim is put 0 Theft from a motor vehicle Any item stolen that was in, on or attached to a motor vehicle. 0 Theft or unauthorised taking of a motor Any motor vehicle including those abandoned. 0 vehicle Theft of pedal cycle From a public place, if stolen form a shed or garage this would be a BOTD. 0 Theft from a person Purse being taken from a handbag, or a mobile phone from a shopping basket. 1