The priorities for the City Centre Neighbourhood team is reviewed every 3 months in a Multi-Agency meeting attended by the Principle City Council Anti-Social Behaviour Officer, Senior Community Protection officers, Licensing Team officers and police representatives from Integrated Offender Management, Problem Solving officers and Neighbourhoods.
The meeting looks at the data from crime recording and intelligence systems held by the police, as well as data from the Nottinghamshire Police Crime Commissioners Office and responses to the ‘What Matters’ survey submitted to the police via the Notts Alert system, in order to determine which matters are important to our communities.
The priorities selected do not detract from other priorities either locally or across the force such as knife crime and burglary.
In the meeting held on the 2nd of January 2025 the priorities were set for the period of January to March 2025:
•Retail Crime in Nottingham City Centre.
•Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) in the Lace Market and Market Square beats.

In relation to retail crime we will be systematically targeting those repeat offenders who cause the most harm, ensuring they are quickly brought to justice and seeking additional orders (such as Criminal Behaviour Orders) to reduce the risk of their offending.
In relation to the ASB in those area we will deploy additional officers to conduct patrols to those areas at the times when analysis indicates that the risk of such behaviour is highest.

Update

Retail Crime
During January we appointed a dedicated officer to tackle those retail crime offences in the city centre which were assessed as the most harmful. The officer's role incorporated the swift obtaining of statements and processing of CCTV evidence to enable us to more quickly deal with prolific and repeat offenders.
6 Individuals were charged with multiple offences in relation to city centre retails crimes.

ASB
An additional 160 hours of high visibility patrols were conducted in the Market Square and Lace Market in addition to the targeted activity of the beat teams in specific locations to deter disorder in those area.