DEREHAM SAFER NEIGHBOURHOOD TEAM UPPER WENSUM WARD www.norfolk.police.uk July 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 508 JON DOWNS PC 1357 ROGER BENTON UPDATE FROM YOUR ENGAGEMENT OFFICER WHAT’S HAPPENING IN YOUR AREA? PC 898 PAULA GILLULEY It has been a busy and proactive month for TEL: 07766990802 officers covering the Dereham area. The Beat E: [email protected] Managers have been targeting their Safer Neighbourhood Action Panel (SNAP) priorities As the holiday season arrives and we take which has included a joint operation with advantage of the warm weather to visit beauty colleagues from Roads Policing with 22 spots and the coast, I would like to remind you drivers dealt with for a variety of motoring that it can take less than one minute for an offences including speeding. Your local Beat opportunist thief to steal from your unattended Managers have also been working with the vehicle. When you park your car away from Ministry of Defence tackling speeding, drink home try to avoid places that are unattended or driving and substance misuse. You may have concealed from public view. Take all your seen our officers out and about on their belongings with you and if you can’t then lock #ParkWalkTalk foot patrols while they carried them in the boot out of site. Always lock your out reassurance patrols as lockdown vehicle and use an alarm. For more crime restrictions have eased and also in relation to prevention advice on this and many other mat- the European Football Championships. To ters visit our website hear full details and updates on the priorities Advice - First Principle | Norfolk Constabulary please join us at the August SNAP meeting on 4th August. 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 July 2021 DEREHAM SAFER NEIGHBOURHOOD TEAM UPPER WENSUM WARD : Encompassing: Gateley, Guist, Twyford, Lyng, North Elmham, Brisley, Bintree, Billingford, Foxley, Bawdeswell, Bylaug, Sparham, Elsing, North Tuddenham, Hockering www.norfolk.police.uk CRIME UPDATES (June 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 1 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. 3 Domestic Domestic incidents where a crime has not occurred. Parties are aged 16 or 1 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 1 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 2 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. 1 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. 0 .