As members of our local community in East Northants you voted on what you thought should be your locally identified priorities for the period between December 2023 and March 2024. As a result, Road Safety, Drug Misuse and Burglary were adopted as the priorities.

During this period, we have worked with Parish Councils, Town Councils, Highways, Housing Agencies, Neighbourhood Watch and other partner agencies in order to identify issues and concerns and subsequently tackle these.

Road Safety & Traffic Matters Policing Update:

• 17 tickets/summons/S59 warnings have been issued.

• Speed enforcement locations have been completed across of East Northants, including but not exhaustive of Thrapston, Polebrook, Kings Cliffe, Oundle, Raunds, Ringstead & Brigstock.

• Over 20 intelligence logs have been submitted relating to road safety & traffic offences.

• Traffic enforcement regarding poor parking has occurred at various Primary Schools across East Northants.

• 13 vehicles have been seized for various offences including driving with no insurance, no MOT, no Tax

• Various Crimes have been investigated for offences such as dangerous driving/ driving whilst over the prescribed limit or driving whilst disqualified.

• 2 arrests has been made for various driving offences.

• 1 VOI scooter account have either been suspended or permanently banned as a result of interactions from the Police.

Drug Dealing & Drug Misuse Update:

• The team have executed 3 warrants relating to drug offences in the local area. Investigations into these are ongoing. These have all been related to cannabis factories.

• 5 People have been dealt with for drug related offences during this time and been offered a diversionary course to help deal with their addiction unrelated to the warrants.

• Officers have used Stop and Search powers on occasions, resulting in 10 positive outcomes for drug offences.

• Over 40 intelligence logs have been submitted relating to drug offences alone.

• A drugs dog operation was conducted in the public houses in East Northants in January in conjunction with North Northants Council Licensing Department and the local Town Councils. 3 people were searched with negative results.

Burglary Update:

• Every reported residential Burglary even just to an outbuilding has received a reassurance visit from a member of the team and a Burglary Prevention Pack issued to victim and immediate neighbours. There have been 63 reported residential burglaries including attempts between December & March – all of these have been visited and signed up to receive Neighbourhood Alerts.

• Crime Prevention Events on home security have been held at various locations across the district.

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Knife Amnesty Bins are situated in the following locations:

• Irthlingborough Church Car Park – behind Public Toilets
• Rushden – Spencer Park & Hall Park
• Higham Ferrers – Saffron Park

Over the LIP period over 70 knives have been recovered from these amnesty bins.

We've discussed the findings with our local authority colleagues and other partners, and looked at local crime figures, and this has helped us identify two priorities that your local Neighbourhood officers will focus on over the next four months. For the East Northants area, the two local priorities will remain the same and will be:

• Road Safety & Traffic Offences
• Drug Dealing & Drug Misuse

At a county level, there are four Matters of Priority that the Force is giving special focus to this year – serious and organised crime, serious violence, drug harm and violence against Women and Girls. Please do look at the Northamptonshire Police Website with regards to the results we have had from weeks of action regarding the matters of priority that the East Northants Neighbourhood Team have been involved in.

The local Neighbourhood team priorities – known as locally identified priorities (LIPs) – are based on the issues that are of most concern in that particular area and are agreed every four months. We encourage you to complete the survey below so that we know what issues you feel are most important to you so that we can work to make the area you live safer. You can complete the survey at any time via this link or via the QR code:
https://survey.northamptonshiretalking.co.uk/Survey/

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Sign up to Northamptonshire Talking whereby you can hear directly from us with regards to issues, actions we've taken and good results that we have had as a team. We'll update you on crime prevention, these local policing priorities, media appeals and local events. You can sign up using the link below:

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We use social media and Northamptonshire Talking to advertise frequent opportunities to come and meet us. We encourage you to come and talk to us, as what you tell us literally helps us to police your community.

We are seeing a greater volume of information being reported to us regarding community concerns. This is fantastic and we want you, the community to feel confident that we will act on the information that is given to us. The results aforementioned are a testament to this. You can report information directly to us as your local Neighbourhood Team, via 101 or the Force Website. If you wish to remain anonymous you can provide information via Crimestoppers.

Feedback from our local communities is really important and we appreciate you taking the time to share you views with us.

PS 888 Leigh Françoise Goodwin

East Northants Neighbourhood Team Sergeant