Neighbourhood Policing Team Weekly Update

🚜🐑 Rural Crime Team Weekly Update 🐑🚜

Alongside our regular hotspot patrols, reassurance visits and crime prevention work across the county, here are just a few examples of what the Rural Crime Team has been involved in this week:

✅ A Community Resolution was issued to a 19-year-old male after he admitted killing wild birds using a catapult and posting videos of the incidents on social media.

✅ A Community Resolution was issued to a 55-year-old male after he admitted destroying a bat roost during a building project. Bats and their roosts are protected by law, and anyone planning works that may affect them should seek appropriate advice beforehand.

✅ Officers spent an evening with Marshwood Vale Young Farmers in Broadoak, discussing current rural issues, crime prevention and ways to help keep our rural communities safe.

✅ On Wednesday evening, officers joined colleagues from Wiltshire Police for a cross-border operation following a number of reported breaks in the rural areas of Gillingham and Mere. Working together across force boundaries helps us target offenders and protect our rural communities.

Thank you to everyone who continues to report incidents and share information with us. Your intelligence plays a vital role in helping us prevent and detect crime across Dorset's rural areas.

If you see anything suspicious, please report online at www.dorset.police.uk, or 999 in an emergency.

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