North Walsham Safer Neighbourhood Team

NORTH WALSHAM SAFER NEIGHBOURHOOD TEAM ANTINGHAM, FELMINGHAM, GIMINGHAM, KNAPTON, NORTH WALSHAM, SKEYTON, SUFFIELD, SWAFIELD, SWANTON ABBOTT, TRUNCH, WESTWICK AND WORSTEAD www.norfolk.police.uk SEPTEMBER 2020

WE ARE YOUR SAFER NEIGHBOURHOOD TEAM – WANT TO GET IN TOUCH? YOUR LOCAL BEAT MANAGERS CONTACT US – E: [email protected] TEL: 101 FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA FACEBOOK: North Norfolk Police

TWITTER: @NorthNorfPolice PC 1378 PAUL GWYNN PC 1598 EMMA ROBINSON UPDATE FROM YOUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT OFFICER WHAT’S HAPPENING IN YOUR AREA?

PC 313 PETER DAVISON Welcome to the September edition of your Police Community Update.

TEL: 07970 458 204 During the last month Officers have been conducting patrols and liaising with residents in the Hadfield Road area regarding Anti- E: [email protected] Social Behaviour (ASB) around Punks tunnel. We are pleased to confirm that the amount of reports of ASB have decreased due to Part of my role as your Community Engagement Officer is to support the Police activity and working with the youths involved. our local Community Speed Watch teams. The scheme was launched in 2007 and is a project working across Norfolk empowering communities Patrols have been increased in the Acorn Road Park area due to an to play an active part alongside the Police and the Safety Camera increase of noise, litter and ASB in the evenings. Partnership in tackling the problem of speeding. Volunteers are given full Police have executed a drugs warrant in Wharton Drive in response training and only carry out speed checks at sites that have been risk to concerns raised by local residents, please keep the information assessed by the police. Speed checks are carried out in 30 and 40mph coming regarding any drug activity in the town. limits at locations chosen by the volunteers. The volunteers record details of offending vehicles and these are passed to the Safety Camera Your Beat Managers PC Paul Gwynn and PC Emma Robinson have Partnership team who send a warning letter to the registered keeper of continued their engagement with local Councils, Schools, children’s offending vehicles. Persistent offenders are visited by a Police Officer. homes and other local groups that we work alongside.

To find out more please see our website - If you’re aware of any issues in your neighbourhood the team would https://www.norfolk.police.uk/join-us/volunteers/community- love to hear from you. Feel free to get in touch via the email address speed-watch and if you have any questions or would like to get above, online at www.norfolk.police.uk or via telephone on 101 - involved please get in touch via the above email address / phone always 999 in an emergency. number.

CURRENT NEIGHBOURHOOD PRIORITIES DATES FOR YOUR DIARY  RURAL CRIME INITIATIVE  SNAP PRIORITY SETTING MEETING – DATE TBC  ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR OUTSIDE MASTERS COURT &  LOCAL ENGAGEMENT SURGERY – DATE TBC BLOOM COURT, NORTH WALSHAM 

CRIME UPDATES - 1st to 31st August

Offence Numbers What could this entail

Arson 1 Damage caused as a result of fire.

Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) 3 Harassment, alarm or distress is caused in a non-crime incident.

Burglary business and community 2 A person commits theft in a building or structure that is not lived in.

Burglary residential 1 Entry and theft in a building or a structure that is lived in.

Criminal Damage 10 A person destroys or damages property belonging to someone else.

Domestic 20 Domestic incidents where a crime has not occurred. Parties are aged 16 or over and have been intimate partners or family members regardless of sexuality.

Hate Incident 0 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, religion, sexual orientation, disability or because they are transgender.

Race or Religious aggravated public fear 0 Any crime determined to have a hate element as per above.

Possession of controlled substance 0 Unlawful possession of a drug classified in class A, B or C.

Possession of weapons 0 Unlawful possession of an article used as a weapon.

Public fear, alarm or distress 7 Public order offences e.g. from a verbal altercation to offences just short of violence.

Robbery 0 Includes a range of offences where force is used, threatened or the victim is put in fear.

Theft from a motor vehicle 1 Any item stolen that was in, on or attached to a motor vehicle.

Theft or unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle 1 Any motor vehicle including those abandoned.

Theft of pedal cycle 0 From a public place, if stolen form a shed or garage this would be a BOTD.

Theft from a person 0 Purse being taken from a handbag, or a mobile phone from a

shopping basket.