Operated by: Northumbria Police

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As well as policing more urban areas in the town centre and its nearby suburbs, we also police more rural areas of country parkland and woodland to the west of Gateshead. Our police bases in Gateshead are located in Whickham, in the town centre and in the Metro Centre shopping complex.

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Current Priorities

Issue

Protecting vulnerable people at risk of urban street gangs on the Sunderland Road Poets Estate

Action

Working with the council to rehouse vulnerable tenants at risk of urban street gang cuckooing.

Issue

Anti-social behaviour on Sunderland Road Poets Estate

Action

High vis patrols and dispersal orders used regularly to prevent crime and ASB.

Issue

Anti-social behaviour in residential properties

Action

10 properties subject to full or partial closure order with homes repossessed by landlord or housing association. We undertake patrols and tasking at all closed properties, and anyone found breaching is arrested and charged.
Closure orders are now imposed on problematic premises whilst dispersal notices and Community Protection Notices have been used to disrupt those responsible.

Issue

Motorcycle ASB in Felling and Wardley

Action

We take days of action with targeted patrols using community intelligence and seized the quad bikes supported by helicopter and drone capability to deter and track down ASB bikes.

Issue

ackling violence against retail staff in Wreckenton/Carr Hill Road

Action

The team were at the stores daily and took a zero-tolerance approach to all theft regardless of cost. Officers applied for criminal behaviour orders on offenders to ban them from the stores.