CPT Melksham Briefing Wiltshire West Community Policing
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For Public Use WILTSHIRE POLICE CPT Melksham Briefing Wiltshire West Community Policing Proud to serve and protect our communities November 2019 P PERFORMANCE Wiltshire West CPT - crime and incident demand for the 12 months to October 2019 Page 1 For Public Use For Public Use WILTSHIRE POLICE CPT Melksham Briefing Wiltshire West Community Policing Proud to serve and protect our communities November 2019 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 England & 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 Area specific Page 2 For Public Use For Public Use WILTSHIRE POLICE CPT Melksham Briefing Wiltshire West Community Policing Proud to serve and protect our communities November 2019 Wiltshire West CPT Demand Overview – 12 months to October 2019 Page 3 For Public Use For Public Use WILTSHIRE POLICE CPT Melksham Briefing Wiltshire West Community Policing Proud to serve and protect our communities November 2019 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, Keevil, Semington, Great Hinton and Steeple Ashton 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 Page 4 For Public Use For Public Use WILTSHIRE POLICE CPT Melksham Briefing Wiltshire West Community Policing Proud to serve and protect our communities November 2019 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 Wiltshire Council 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 Warminster 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. Sgt David Tippetts, who led on the amnesty across the county, said: “The key element for this year has been the community focus, which has been demonstrated with the additional Page 5 For Public Use For Public Use WILTSHIRE POLICE CPT Melksham Briefing Wiltshire West Community Policing Proud to serve and protect our communities November 2019 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.