Neighbourhood Policing Team
Crimes and priorities
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Priority:
Action taken:
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Priority:
Fly tipping.
Action taken:
Officers continue to work closely with the local authority’s Waste Crime team to tackle fly-tipping. Information and intelligence are regularly shared between partner agencies to identify offenders, support enforcement action and prevent further incidents. This joint approach has helped achieve positive results against those responsible for illegal dumping and continues to support efforts to protect the local environment.
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Priority:
Antisocial behaviour - nuisance.
Action taken:
Officers have engaged with local residents to discuss this issue and obtained CCTV and intelligence. This has resulted in joint visits with Maidstone Borough Council and Golding Homes. Targeted patrols have been carried out of local hotspot areas - this has resulted in the arrest of a person carrying out repeated antisocial behaviour in the area.
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Priority:
Catapults.
Action taken:
Local officers have reviewed intelligence and information and have been able to identify some of those responsible for this behaviour in the local area. Multiagency work is being carried out to implement a long term diversion and resolution to the problem. Multiple catapults have been seized by the local officers.