Operated by: Thames Valley Police
https://www.thamesvalley.police.ukEvery neighbourhood in Thames Valley has a dedicated Neighbourhood Policing team.
Neighbourhood Policing teams can be contacted via 101, the Thames Valley Police non-emergency number. Always call 999 in an emergency.
Neighbourhood Policing teams…- Are led by senior police officers and include police community support officers (PCSOs), often together with volunteer police officers, volunteers and partners.
- May serve one or several neighbourhoods.
- Work with local people and partners to identify, tackle and prevent local, low-level crime, anti-social behaviour, and any ongoing concerns.
- Provide you with a visible, accessible and accountable police service and aim to make your neighbourhood safer.
- Have been present in every Thames Valley neighbourhood since 1 April 2008.
- Focus all of their efforts on their dedicated neighbourhoods, building relationships with local people.
- Needs you to tell us about the issues that concern you in your area.
- Has transformed policing at a local level, to meet the needs of local communities.
- Is known as ‘Safer Neighbourhoods’ in Milton Keynes.
From the start of 2010, Thames Valley Police extended its neighbourhood consultation by introducing a wider range of publicised opportunities to meet neighbourhood teams.
We will provide open monthly meetings to allow the public to influence our priorities. These meetings will be branded as Have Your Say opportunities, and in many cases will be held in conjunction with partners.
View Have Your Say summary and flowchart (PDF 40 Kb - opens new window)Once local priorities have been identified, a broader ‘toolkit’ of problem-solving tactics is being made available to ensure crime and anti-social behaviour is tackled effectively.
Across the Thames Valley area, there are many successful Neighbourhood Action Groups which will continue to deliver local problem solving, but the introduction of Have Your Say meetings will allow neighbourhood teams to identify more quickly those specific local priorities that need attention.
Thames Valley Police views the introduction of Have Your Say meetings as a positive step in tackling issues that matter most to the public. I welcome your support and engagement in this endeavour.
Contact Details
Website: https://www.thamesvalley.police.uk
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tvp_oxford
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/thamesvalleypoliceuk
Telephone: 101
E-messaging: https://www.thamesvalleyalert.co.uk/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thamesvp
Email: [email protected]
Current Priorities
Issue
Reduce drug use and associated ASB at Luther Street
Action
Working with partners, the ASB was reduced in the area by engaging with the residents of the tents, explaining local concerns and ensuring support for individuals by relevant agencies. Engagement with those using the area, and directed patrols and attention resulted in those responsible clearing up the area and moving away. Resulting in a vast reduction of issues reported regards drug use, litter and associated ASB.
Issue
Reduce retail crime
Action
Actively worked to support a local clothing retail premises, speaking to staff, providing security advice and techniques they could use when approaching known thieves in their store, providing reassurance and encouraging reporting of offences. This has resulted in greater confidence, evidence by improved reporting of offences and the appointment of in store security to deter further issues. Worked with a separate retailer elsewhere again achieving the appointment of in store security to help deter issues, and support police in tackling ongoing retail offences.
Issue
Reduce the incidence of theft from the person
Action
We have engaged 2 large local retail premises in Oxford city centre to place signage warning of thefts in the area. We have undertaken a large number of high visibility, and plain clothes patrols and disruptive activities in the city centre over the summer period and last three months. We have engaged partners elsewhere in the city centre who have placed signage and who are supporting us in disruptive activity. As a joint neighbourhood team approach across Oxford, we have arrested a number of suspects to date, and investigations are still ongoing, with further patrols ongoing