Your safer neighbourhood team
Neighbourhood policing within Surrey Police is delivered by Safer Neighbourhood Teams in each of the 11 districts and boroughs of the County. Each neighbourhood within the districts and boroughs is served by a dedicated team of officers and staff.
Neighbourhood Teams provide community engagement, targeted foot patrols and collaborative problem solving to tackle the issues that cause the greatest harm in our communities. Teams are made of sergeants, police officers and PCSOs, led by the Borough Commander, with further support provided by other team members - with specialisms in youth engagement, licensing and crime prevention.
Crimes and priorities
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Action taken:
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Retail Crime
Work with retailers to reduce retail Crime and increase the feeling of public safety.Action taken:
•Increased visible presence , with officers deployed to hotspot locations identified through data and intelligence.
•Prevent and disrupt shop theft and abusive behaviour against retail staff, while providing reassurance and increasing public confidence in local policing.
•Prompt investigation where a suspect is identified. We support investigation with evidence gathering and timely arrests .
•Collaboration with stores and remote CCTV providers for timely evidence gathering and partnership collaboration.
•Increased covert officers patrolling the area.
•Joint working with retailers
•Partnership with support agencies to engage offenders who may be coerced into offending, aiming to prevent repeat crimes.
•Promoting proactive use of the the ‘DISC’ system for improved information sharing, crime reporting, and management of known offenders and the issuing of Banning letters
•We will relentlessly pursue persistent offenders, thorough investigation of hidden or unreported crimes, and the use of custody time to charge and remand offenders rather than granting bail.
• Use of the Anti-Social Behaviour Legislation to prevent offenders coming to the area.
•Engage with retailers to promote crime prevention schemes, encourage CCTV upgrade/ installations. -
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Dwelling Burglary
Over the Autumn and Winter months, with the darker evenings, we have historically seen increase in burglaries. In response we have deployed an autumn and winter nights burglary campaign.Action taken:
Throughout our campaign we will be;
•Conducting targeted dedicated high-visibility and covert burglary patrols
•We will targeted hotspot locations to deter offending, disrupt criminal activity, and provide reassurance to local communities
•We will support victims through crime prevention advice
•Seek opportunities to gain and develop intelligence around burglaries and potential subjects.
•Engage with the community, raise awareness and provide prevention advice.The aim is to
•Reduce the number of burglary victims across Mole Valley
•Increase public confidence
•Bring offenders to justice -
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Livestock Worrying
The farming community are continuing to tell us that they are suffering increased Livestock worrying incidents which have a huge impact on their livelihoods.
Action taken:
What we want to continue to do
•Continue to build good relationships with the farming community and work together to tackle this issue, protect livestock and their livelihood by reducing incidents of livestock worrying by dogs.
•Continue to encourage farmers to report incidents early and share information to enable us to investigative promptly and build intelligence around peak times and locations.
•Identify and prosecute offenders where evidence supports criminal offences.
•Improve public awareness of responsible dog ownership and the consequence of livestock worrying; through education, renewed signage, social media and visible patrols in repeat locations and dog walking hotspots.
•Prevention engagement events to try to prevent incidents before they happen. Identify particularly vulnerable areas and work with the farmers in target hardening.