Retail Crime

Retail crime has a huge impact on businesses within our City Centre and on the Barbican. We are working with the CPS, PARC, Drake Circus and Community Connections to robustly deal with shoplifting offenders and deter them from committing further offences in the future.

Update: 16 September 2024 - Update

This continues to remain a priority for the team. Our business community deserves to feel safe and protected and we will continue to work with them to bring offenders to justice.

Drugs

The city centre & waterfront team understand the impact that drug related offending has on the community, especially those that are vulnerable. This includes exploitation of young people through county lines, drug related ASB and public health issues for drug users.

We want to identify those who are causing harm to our communities through drug offences. We can employ a number of tactics to do this and need information from the public to direct these tactics effectively.

If you suspect that drugs are being used or dealt from an address please contact our team at [email protected]

Update: 16 September 2024 - Op Makesafe

During September PC Smith of the City Centre & Waterfront team coordinated a 2 week campaign to raise awareness around child exploitation which centres around county lines and sexual exploitation.

Op Makesafe | Devon & Cornwall Police (devon-cornwall.police.uk)

Anti-social behaviour in Plymouth City Centre

Anti-social Behaviour - We are aware following engagement events with partners and businesses in the city centre that ASB is a priority. The 3 main areas highlighted to the Policing team were around shoplifting related ASB; empty buildings or isolated places and alcohol related ASB. 

We will work with our partners from Community Connections and PARC to identify those involved and deal with them robustly. We ask for your support in reporting these incidents to the Police through the Disc App, the Devon & Cornwall Police website Report antisocial behaviour | Devon & Cornwall Police (devon-cornwall.police.uk) or 101.

Update: 16 September 2024 - ASB Update

Working closely with colleagues at Community Connections we have served community protection notices to two individuals who have caused persistent ASB in the city centre and waterfront area.

The PSPO has been utilised to seize alcohol from those who were acting in an anti-social manner in the city centre.

Dispersal powers were used during the violent disorder in August and to effectively manage anti-social behaviour in the night time economy.

These powers are only successful with the support from the public and reports being made to the Police and Plymouth City Council. We encourage residents, business owners and visitors to the city centre and waterfront area to continue reporting these issues to us so that we can proactively deal with them.