Agenda item

(a)  Police updates

Inspectors Fenwick, English and Busuttil gave the following statistics / information for year-to-date in comparison to last year:

Basford (Inspector Fenwick)

·  Burglary commercial – 3 recently in the Park Lane Commercial area, for which a person will shortly be arrested;

·  the rise in drug offences is partly due to Operation Reacher serving successful warrants;

·  Basford ward is fully staffed;

·  a new Schools Officer is working with the team at Ellis Guilford Secondary;

·  a recent stabbing on Britannia Park (resulting in no life threatening injuries) is being investigated by CID, with a suspect interviewed under caution. This is thought to be a targeted attack, with both parties being known to the Police;

·  Covid-19 patrols are still ongoing;

·  thefts from shops are a current priority;

·  the number of reported incidents of Covid-related ASB and parties etc seems to be across all areas, with no particular ward standing out.

Berridge (Inspector English)

·  Operation Reacher has been running for a couple of months, and includes community engagement activities, with the aim of preventing crime, rather than just reacting to it after it occurs;

·  over the last couple of weeks, the National Knife crime ‘Week of Action’ has taken place and a number of weapon sweeps, especially in open spaces such as parks, and no weapons have been found;

·  the ‘mini Police’ and Reacher Team have been creating posters with the aim of preventing crime, particularly knife crime;

·  a serious incident occurred on Beech Avenue, with a male brandishing a shotgun. He was arrested and recently sentenced to 3 years 4 months in prison;

·  the police have engaged with 150 school children in the Berridge ward, at Djanogly Northgate & Sherwood and St Marys, but unfortunately due to Covid-19, some schools were not accessible, such as Djanogly City Academy. Hopefully this will be resolved soon and as the scheme is ongoing, engagement with more schools should be possible.

Sherwood (Inspector Busuttil)

·  Theft (other) – 2 from vending machines at the City hospital, a stolen bicycle and a stolen wheelbarrow;

·  Drug offences - Operation Reacher recently served a successful warrant, resulting in a large seizure of cannabis, cash and high-value items;

·  a shoplifter was recently sentenced to 16 weeks in prison for 20 offences at the Co-op and Boots on Mansfield Road;

·  action has been taken against a prolific hoax caller, so hopefully the number of hoax calls to the Police will go down;

·  a recent speed operation (on 22/10/20) in Sherwood Dales area resulted in a number of drivers being spoken to. There will be further operations over the next couple of months and Councillors can suggest any areas they would like covering;

·  a weapons sweep at Peggy’s Park recently recovered a knife, happily a second sweep later discovered no new weapons;

·  PC Matt Johnson has left to join the Reacher Team and has been replaced by PC George Browoff.

(b)  Community Protection update

Rupinder Kooner, Senior Community Protection Officer, updated the Committee as follows:

·  ‘Bins on Streets’ is quite high as there has been a focus on this over the last couple of months;

·  due to Covid-19, shifts have been changed so that CPOs work later to check that businesses comply with the regulations. Most are complying, but those that don’t have been reported to the Police;

·  one member of staff has left from the Basford ward, but this person will be replaced as a new member of staff has joined the team.