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For Public Use POLICE CPT Briefing Wiltshire West Community Policing

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P PERFORMANCE

Wiltshire West CPT - crime and incident demand for the 12 months to October 2019

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Force-wide

• Wiltshire Police has had an increase in the volume of recorded crime by 3% in the 12 months to October 19 and continues to have one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

• Our service delivery remains consistently good.

• In October, we received 8,352 999 calls which we answered within 6 seconds on average and 12,566 CRIB calls which we answered within 1 minutes 47 seconds on average.

• In October, we also attended 1,598 emergency incidents within 11 minutes and 17 seconds on average.

• Wiltshire Police has seen a 13% reduction in vehicle crime and 15% in residential burglaries in the 12 months to October 2019.

• The Crime Survey of & Wales recently ranked Wiltshire as one of the top forces (78.3%) nationally for public confidence. It covers the 12 months to March 2019. The publication can be found here: WWW.CRIMESURVEY.CO.UK

For more information on Wiltshire Police’s performance please visit:

PCC’s Website - https://www.wiltshire-pcc.gov.uk/article/1847/Performance HMICFRS Website - https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/police-forces/wiltshire/ Police.uk - https://www.police.uk/wiltshire

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Wiltshire West CPT Demand Overview – 12 months to October 2019

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LOCAL CPT UPDATES:

SEPT 2019 CRIME DATA - Melksham Town and Villages combined (Area Board)

Melksham Area Board (*includes 3 Beat Areas, 1 for the Town ED11, and two for Rural and Villages ED12 and ED13) September showed a total of 134 crimes for the whole Melksham Area against the average of136 offences for this same month over the last two years. This is in line with what we would expect for the sector.

ED11 – Melksham Town September showed 78 crimes for the beat area against the average of 89.1 offences for this same month over the last two years. There are no exceptions within the data.

ED12 – Shaw, Whitley, Atworth, Broughton Gifford, Beanacre, Bowerhill and Berryfields September showed 31 reported crimes for the beat area against the average of 34 offences for this same month over the last two years. There are no exceptions within the data.

ED13 – Seend, Bulkington, Poulshot, , Semington, Great Hinton and September showed 25 reported crimes for the beat area against the average of 12.9 offences for this same month over the last two years. There are no exceptions within the data.

OCT 2019 CRIME DATA - Melksham Town and Villages combined (Area Board)

Melksham Area Board (includes 3 Beat Areas, Town ED11, and two for Rural/Villages ED12 and ED13) October showed a total of 125 crimes for the whole Melksham Area against the average of 134.1 offences for this same month over the last two years. This is in line with what we would expect for the sector.

ED11 – Melksham Town October showed 84 crimes for the beat area against the average of 87.9 offences for this same month over the last two years. There are no exceptions within the data.

ED12 – Shaw, Whitley, Atworth, Broughton Gifford, Beanacre, Bowerhill and Berryfields October showed 33 reported crimes for the beat area against the average of 33.4 offences for this same month over the last two years. There are no exceptions within the data.

ED13 – Seend, Bulkington, Poulshot, Keevil, Semington, Great Hinton and Steeple Ashton October showed 9 reported crimes for the beat area against the average of 12.9 offences for this same month over the last two years. There are no exceptions within the data.

Local Community Matters

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PC Lee Pelling along with PCSO Steph HOLMAN and other members of the CPT supported the Town Council at the recent Royal visit by HRH Duke of Gloucester as a part of the Melksham Domesday celebrations.

PCSO Steph HOLMAN is continuing to look at drug and ASB issues in the area of Union Street. She is currently engaging with the local community to listen to the issues, gather intelligence and establish a plan to tackle the concerns raised. *UPDATE* a section 23 Misuse Of Drugs Act warrant was carried out at an address in Union Street on the 3rd October. While no positive arrests were made, important intel gathering opportunities were achieved.

PCSO Steph HOLMAN and Pc Lee PELLING are continuing to looking into issues in the area of The Friars, Melksham following reports of ASB and potential drug activity. *UPDATE* - Melksham Police along with Selwood Housing and were successful in securing a Closure Order on an address in the Friars on the 7th Oct from Salisbury Magistrates Court. The Order prevents anyone other than the listed tenant for being in or on the property. Anyone else found at the address can be liable to arrest. The order is valid for 3 months and runs until midnight on the 6th Jan 2020.

PCSO Maggie LEDBURY is overseeing the coordination pro-active Patrols of rural locations by the area officers. Recently there have been reports of poaching and criminal damage to farm and private land in the area of Steeple Ashton, especially Mudmead Lane and Sandpits Lane, Steeple Ashton and more recently in Keevil.

Staffing Update

PCSO Leigh HOLCOMBE has left the Melksham team, now moved to Town. I would like to welcome PCSO Luke HOSKEN to Melksham Town beat as his replacement. PCSO Janet GOULD is also currently training up a new PCSO for the area, PCSO Adam ALMOND. Once he has completed his training, the intention is that he will be posted to stay working in the Melksham area

OPERATION SCEPTRE (16th Sept 2019)

Operation Sceptre is a national knife crime awareness campaign launched by the Metropolitan Police in 2015 in response to knife crime and has been adopted nationally to raise awareness of the growing trends, with the overall aim of reducing knife crime and the harm it causes to individuals, their families and the wider community.

*UPDATE* - Op Sceptre closed on Sunday 29th Sept with a total of 321 knives handed in at police stations, churches and community centres across the community. Along with the opportunity to surrender knives without the fear of prosecution, there was a focus was on raising awareness of the impact and consequences knives can have when they are found in the wrong hands.

This year’s amnesty saw an expansion in the number of locations where members of the public could safely dispose of knives and bladed articles, and for the first time four churches from the Diocese of Salisbury and two community centres joined the amnesty, offering their buildings as a safe location for amnesty bins.

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locations for the amnesty and the educational work undertaken in secondary schools.

“Partnership work is key if we are to see a continued reduction in knife crime. A large part of which is the focus on education so young people are aware of the risks associated with carrying a knife or weapon.

“Op Sceptre gives us the opportunity to highlight our ongoing work that aims to safeguard children and the vulnerable and reduce the impact of knife related crime.”

Operation Sceptre plays a key role in the annual crime prevention calendar with focused awareness week in both September and March.

ACC Maggie Blyth said: “Knife crime across Wiltshire remains stable, but that does not mean as a police force or a community we can be complacent. “The opportunity for amnesties and enforcement play an important part in reducing immediate risk and harm in our communities. But we need to be thinking long term, and education and awareness is key. “We need to work together to change the opinion of knives and where carrying a knife in a public place is completely unacceptable."

Police and Crime Commissioner Angus Macpherson said: "This has been another successful knife crime awareness campaign and amnesty – 321 is a good number. “That means 321 fewer weapons on the streets of Wiltshire which could potentially do harm. "Fortunately, we live in a very safe county and our knife crime figures buck the national rise.

"Early intervention is very much part of the crucial work around prevention; getting to the youngsters before they turn to use a blade for what they believe is protection but it’s not. “I would like to see every child in the county educated about the dangers of carrying knives – it’s the only way we will prevent knife crime in future generations.

"We all need to take more responsibility for the signs of knife crime in our communities - to spot them early on so they get 'nipped in the bud' before becoming a major problem."

Operation Sceptre has now finished; however, people can still hand in their knives and unwanted weapons at any time at their closest police station.

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YOUR CPT – Wiltshire West

Inspector Andy Fee Sergeant Dan Green (No Photo) Community Co-ordinators:

PC Charly Chilton () PC Helen Daveridge (Westbury, Warminster)

PC Lee Pelling (Melksham) PC Darren Foulger (Bradford on Avon)

PC Rich Salter (Tisbury and Mere) You can find out more about Wiltshire West CPT, including news stories and contacts for local officers, on our website: www.wiltshire.police.uk/WiltshireWest

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LOCAL PRIORITIES

PRIORITIES FOR WILTSHIRE WEST CPT UPDATE

Priority 1:

CSW - Community Speed Watch Speed Watch areas updates for Novt 2019 The current Speed watch locations for Every 2 weeks, 4 CSW Schemes across West Wiltshire are selected additional enforcement are; for CPT targeting, enforcement to supplement the CSW team Frome Road, BoA planned sessions. The results are reported back to the CSW teams Shaw Hill, Melksham and local communities. Shrewton Rd, , Warminster Edington, Westbury

Previous Sept/Oct Locations checked; Beanacre, Melksham – A350 Frome Road – Bradford on Avon Pitmead Lane – , Warminster High Street, Lowbourne, Melksham Southwick Rd, Devizes Rd, Poulshot Frome Rd, Southwick High Street – Bitham Park – Westbury Steeple Ashton – Trowbridge Chapmaslade – Warminster

Priority 2:

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Op Artemis – Rural Crime Many pro-active patrols are still being carried out in rural locations across West Wiltshire, This is the ongoing rural crime operation overseen by the Rural with a focus on the areas of Steeple Ashton, Crime Team for the county. They will arrange for specific patrols Stockton and Chilmark specifically during the course of the year in cooperation with and supported by the farming community with a view to tackling, deterring and *UPDATE* - There have been a spate of rural detecting overnight rural crimes. post box thefts (Including Poulshot and Keevil). A group of criminals are stealing post boxes and their contents from rural locations across Wiltshire.

Priority 3:

Young people in Melksham involved in ASB and criminality *UPDATE* Enquiries are complete and CPS charging advice sought. As a result several In May a disorder was reported in the Hawthorn Road area of youths will be charged with assault offences. Melksham, which involved a large group of youths. Youth intervention officer Pc Darren Foulger and Pc Lee Pelling continue to work closely with some of the key youths and their families alongside partner agencies to prevent further instances occurring

Priority 4:

Enforcement of Closure Order – The Friars, Melksham The Order prevents anyone other than the listed tenant for being in or on the property. In response to ASB and drug activity, Melksham Police along with Anyone else found at the address can be Selwood Housing and Wiltshire Council were successful in securing a liable to arrest. The order is valid for 3 Closure Order on an address in The Friars from Salisbury Magistrates months and runs until midnight on the 6th Jan Court. 2020. The Police will be doing regular checks at the address.

*UPDATE* The Police have been called to the address twice in relation to breaches. Both times people have been removed from the address and given warnings not to return to the address.

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HIGH LEVEL PCC UPDATES Community Policing: Ensuring that we have a policing model which meets the needs of the community it serves as well as ensuring it is fit for future challenges and demands, is crucial.

This is why, with my full support, Wiltshire Police has conducted a review of how community policing is delivered in our county to make sure it evolves to meet the changing demands on policing in the 21st Century.

It is important that we continually reflect on how effective the model is, particularly given we have an additional wave of new officers coming into the Force.

Currently, we have 41 officers going through training as a direct result of residents supporting me in raising the precept. This means we will have the ability to bolster our community policing offering.

I will continue to ensure the Chief Constable prioritises and strengthens the community policing element of the Force.

HIGH LEVEL FORCE UPDATES Community Policing: We remain totally committed to putting our communities at the heart of our policing structure.

When we introduced the Community Policing model in 2016, we were clear that it would undergo continuous evaluation to ensure we were constantly improving it by remaining responsive to the changing nature of demand. We also made a commitment that we would always listen and adapt to concerns from the officers and staff who work within these teams.

We want to do all that we can to improve the model – not only for those working within it, but also to ensure we are providing the public with the very best service we can – an aim shared by everyone at Wiltshire Police.

We need to ensure that we are allocating our resources to provide the most efficient and effective service for the public. It was also prudent to review our model in light of any future increase in officers.

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Following a review of our model, we are now in the process of consulting with our staff on the preferred proposal. We will, of course, keep our communities sighted on any changes when appropriate.

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