THETFORD SAFER NEIGHBOURHOOD TEAM BEDINGFELD & FOREST WARD www..police.uk February 2021

WE ARE YOUR SAFER NEIGHBOURHOOD TEAM – YOUR LOCAL BEAT MANAGERS WANT TO GET IN TOUCH? CONTACT US – E: [email protected] TEL: 101 FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA FACEBOOK: Brecks Police TWITTER: @BrecklandPolice PC 1938 LEAH NORTON PC 147 LES MAGUIRE

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

What is Neighbourhood Watch (NHW)? The NHW of today is about neighbours working PC 898 PAULA GILLULEY together to build safer communities, The E : [email protected] National body for the scheme have a website, www.ourwatch.org.uk, where you can find out This month, working with the Safer lots of advice and information. There is no hard Action Group (STAG), we held our first online and fast rule of how schemes should be priority setting meeting. Your local Beat managed or run, and the OurWatch website Managers provided up dates on the previous describes the scheme as: “Neighbourhood priorities and listened to and gave advice on Watch schemes can make a real, longlasting local concerns. Our new priorities were voted in difference to communities: increasing as detailed below. The next public STAG cohesion and connectedness; helping to meeting will be held at 7pm on Thursday 8th prevent crime; increasing neighbourliness April 2021 online via Microsoft Teams which is and community wellbeing; supporting vulnerable people and increasing the voice free to download from your App store to your of the community with councils, the police devices. You can join by following the link which and other organisations.” is advertised in the Events section of our Breckland Police Facebook Page, your local If you would like more information please email Next Door platform or you can email me the Breckland Engagement Officer at [email protected] [email protected]

CURRENT NEIGHBOURHOOD PRIORITIES DATE OF NEXT SNAP MEETING

• Tackling ASB & Street Drinking in the Thursday 8th April at 7pm via Microsoft PSPO Area Teams : for the link see the Events section of Breckland Police FB, Nextdoor or email • Tackling Vehicle ASB & Speeding [email protected]

February 2021

THETFORD SAFER NEIGHBOURHOOD TEAM BEDINGFELD & FOREST WARD : Encompassing: , , , Foulden, , , Cranwich, , Tottington, Sturston, Stanford, , Weeting & Broomhill, Bretttenham, Croxton, www.norfolk.police.uk

CRIME UPDATES (January 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 2 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 sexuali- ty. 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 0 violence. Robbery Includes a range of offences where force is used, threatened or the victim is put 0 in fear. Theft from a motor vehicle Any item stolen that was in, on or attached to a motor vehicle. 2 Theft or unauthorised taking of a motor Any motor vehicle including those abandoned. 1 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. 0