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Rutland North Christmas Newsletter


 

 

Rutland North Christmas Newsletter 

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Your Dedicated Neighbourhood Team (from left to right): PCSO 6557 Lauren Lyall, PS 4114 Liam Palmer, PC 1049 Jake Spruce 

Welcome to your monthly newsletter!

Focusing on the priorities that you want your local policing team to deal with

#YouSaid - What matters to you

We have listened to you and the concerns you have raised through surveys, community consultations and analysing crime trends. 

 

Using this data, we have created the following Rutland North priorities that the Dedicated Neighbourhood Team will focus their efforts on:

 

Priority 1: Road Safety.

You said: Speeding vehicles on Rutland roads is a priority you want us to address, specifically the lack of adherence to 30mph zones.

What we are going to do: We will provide a frequent high visibility policing presence to the affected areas with marked vehicle patrols and regular monitoring. We will deploy the speed gun device and deal with offenders robustly where appropriate. We will also continue to work with partner agencies, such as the Road Safety Partnership mobile speed camera van, to identify areas of concern and request deployment of that resource. We will then continue to publish the enforcement statistics on the Neighbourhood Link messaging service.

 

Priority 2: Vehicle Crime.

You Said: Vehicles being broken into, items being stolen and damage caused to vehicles is a concern to you. 

What we are going to do: Develop our intelligence picture around those who commit this type of crime so we that we can effectively target our resources in the right areas, at the right time, with the aim of deterring, disrupting and bringing offenders to justice.

 

Priority 3: Farm Equipment Thefts.

You said: Reports of criminals stealing plant equipment and machinery from farms and building sites is a concern for you.

What we are going to do: Working closely with the Rural Policing Team, proactively patrol at all times of day and night. Robustly deal with offenders. Visit victims of crime and provide target hardening advice. Make efforts to locate and reunite stolen equipment.

#WeDid - What we are doing

Over the past month the beat team have dealt with numerous incidents, both in assisting our colleagues on response with emergencies, as well as tackling the priorities that you want us to deal with. Things of note to mention are:

 

PC Spruce and the team have been out and about with the speed laser (aka the speed gun) over the past month on a couple of different occasions. The speed gun has spent time in Thistleton, Clipsham, Great Casterton, as well as Essendine. You may have seen the updates at the time, if not take a look at one of them here – https://www.neighbourhoodlink.co.uk/Alerts/A/220319

 

The beat team also attended a multi-agency road safety event at Kendrew Barracks in Cottesmore where around 700 military personnel were involved and educated in the importance of ‘The Fatal 4’ and road safety. The day involved Leicestershire Police, Royal Military Police, East Midlands Ambulance Service, Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service, Turning Point, The Road Safety Partnership and Rutland County Council Community Safety Team. It was a really well received day and hopefully will help to improve the safety of our roads for weeks and months to come. 

 

Furthermore, in relation to road safety. Some great work has been conducted by response officers near Cottesmore in the past month, arresting a driver for drug drive and stop searching and seizing cannabis from the other occupants of the vehicle, issuing community resolutions with drug rehabilitation requirements.

 

In relation to vehicle crime. Early December saw the arrest of 2 males on the A1 suspected to be involved in Operation Barrick related offences. Operation Barrick is a Policing approach to offences related to criminals targeting HGV vehicles, either by stealing their consignments from their trailers and/or syphoning fuel from their tanks. The males are from Yorkshire and had clearly travelled a long way to try and commit crime on our area. These arrests are a great deterrent and disruption to their criminal activities displaying that we will not tolerate this in our county. The investigation into these offences continues.  

 

In relation to farm equipment thefts and vehicle crime. We circulated the theft of an IFor Williams Trailer from Great Casterton and the search continues. PC Spruce has been out and about as much as possible after dark in the affected areas completing high visibility proactive patrols and stopping suspicious vehicles. We need your help with these issues, so please read on to the crime prevention section further down, thank you. 

 

PC Spruce has attended two parish council meetings in the past month, one at Ashwell and one at Exton, as well as completing two school visits with PCSO Lyall, one at Casterton College Great Casterton and one at St Nicholas CE Cottesmore. 

 

PC Spruce has also completed a joint visit patch walk with Accent Housing to some addresses in Market Overton following complaints of a smell of cannabis, work is still ongoing with the housing association to improve this. 

 

PC Spruce has also made arrests for other matters to assist response colleagues that were isolated incidents that are not of concern to the wider community, but nonetheless have kept him very busy! 

 

Crime and Policing Report – 30 day crime report, 16/11/2024 to 16/12/2024

 

Vehicle Crime: 

A1 – OP BARRICK – Four separate reports of fuel being syphoned from HGVs whilst parked up overnight, 1 report of goods being stolen from HGV trailer overnight. 

Burley – Theft of caravan parked outside of an address. 

Cottesmore – Theft from motor vehicle, pair of football boots and two pounds in cash stolen. 

Cottesmore – Vehicle interference, contents of motor vehicle moved within car overnight. 

Cottesmore – OP PIONEER – Van left locked and secure is broken into overnight and power tools stolen from within.

Great Casterton – Theft of an IFor Williams trailer from a self-storage facility. 

 

Theft: 

Tickencote – Theft of defibrillator from the church, one-week time frame. 

Casterton – Shop theft from garden centre. 

Burglary (other than dwelling): 

Whitwell – 2x commercial breaks to store overnight, (1 attempted/unsuccessful). 

Ryhall – Children’s bikes and scooters taken from garage. 

Ryhall – Shed broken into and power tool stolen. 

 

Criminal Damage: 

Ryhall – Church window smashed. 

 

Crime Trends and Prevention Advice

 

Unfortunately, with the darker nights drawing in we have seen a slight increase in vehicle crime and thefts on the beat area overnight. Please view the link here for some crime prevention advice in relation to this - https://www.leics.police.uk/cp/crime-prevention/protect-home-crime/secure-shed-garage/ and https://www.leics.police.uk/cp/crime-prevention/keeping-vehicles-safe/vehicle-safe-and-sound/

 

 

FINALLY - Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, the whole Dedicated Neighbourhoods Team here at Rutland Police wish you a safe and enjoyable festive period. Thank you for all your support in 2024. We look forward to continuing to work hard and bring you more positive results in 2025. 

Meet your Team - Upcoming public engagements

Langham Village Hall, Thursday 9th January 2025, 15:45 – 16:15, Beat Engagement/Beat Surgery.

Ashwell Village Hall, Wednesday 5th February 2025, 15:00 – 16:00, Beat Engagement/Beat Surgery.

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