POLICE DETAILS
Thames Valley Police - Wycombe South Neighbourhood

Serious Acquisitive Crime (SAC) offences such as Burglary, Vehicle Crime and Theft

Seasonal trend data analysis demonstrates that there is a habitual rise in burglaries in the period leading up to Christmas. Through feedback and intel, the neighbourhood policing team are able to focus on existing and emerging hotspots for burglary.
Operation Grotto is TVP South Buck's crime initiative to reduce and prevent burglaries during the festive season. There will be an increased number of overt patrols in hotspot areas, as well as utilisation of enhanced intel gathering to see more arrests of offenders. There will also be a focus on distribution of crime reduction advice to members of the public.

Streamlining the response and investigation of retail crime, including shoplifting - Shoplifting as well as other retail crime such as vandalism, anti social behaviour within shops and various types of fraud continues to be a concern for retail workers and shop owners.

The NHPT will aim to build a closer relationship with the shops and it's workers within High Wycombe, increasing staff's and owner's confidence in talking to the police. This will be carried out through increased community engagement in that area.
The team will also promote the use of the DISC app to enable faster and easier reporting. For more information about the disk app, please visit discagainstcrime.com
In addition, the team will also devise guidance and plans to gather evidence and prosecute offenders after shopliftings and other retail offences have occurred.

There has been various anti social behaviours in the town centre, including aggressive begging and rough sleeping, as well as drug use.

The NHPT will continue to increase visible police patrols in the Town Centre, they will also make use of legislation and work closely with partners including BIDCo and Bucks County Council to decrease issues such as aggressive begging, rough sleeping, drug use and littering.
Recently, the NHPT have worked to disperse rough sleeping in the underpass near the university and clean up the items that the dwellers have left behind. Through working with partner agencies, they have also ensured that those who have been moved along have been receiving and continue to receive support for issues such as lack of housing and drug addiction.

Serious Acquisitive Crime (SAC) offences such as Burglary, Vehicle Crime and Theft

Seasonal trend data analysis demonstrates that there is a habitual rise in burglaries in the period leading up to Christmas. Through feedback and intel, the neighbourhood policing team are able to focus on existing and emerging hotspots for burglary.
Operation Grotto is TVP South Buck's crime initiative to reduce and prevent burglaries during the festive season. There will be an increased number of overt patrols in hotspot areas, as well as utilisation of enhanced intel gathering to see more arrests of offenders. There will also be a focus on distribution of crime reduction advice to members of the public.

Streamlining the response and investigation of retail crime, including shoplifting - Shoplifting as well as other retail crime such as vandalism, anti social behaviour within shops and various types of fraud continues to be a concern for retail workers and shop owners.

The NHPT will aim to build a closer relationship with the shops and it's workers within High Wycombe, increasing staff's and owner's confidence in talking to the police. This will be carried out through increased community engagement in that area.
The team will also promote the use of the DISC app to enable faster and easier reporting. For more information about the disk app, please visit discagainstcrime.com
In addition, the team will also devise guidance and plans to gather evidence and prosecute offenders after shopliftings and other retail offences have occurred.

There has been various anti social behaviours in the town centre, including aggressive begging and rough sleeping, as well as drug use.

The NHPT will continue to increase visible police patrols in the Town Centre, they will also make use of legislation and work closely with partners including BIDCo and Bucks County Council to decrease issues such as aggressive begging, rough sleeping, drug use and littering.
Recently, the NHPT have worked to disperse rough sleeping in the underpass near the university and clean up the items that the dwellers have left behind. Through working with partner agencies, they have also ensured that those who have been moved along have been receiving and continue to receive support for issues such as lack of housing and drug addiction.

Serious Acquisitive Crime (SAC) offences such as Burglary, Vehicle Crime and Theft

Seasonal trend data analysis demonstrates that there is a habitual rise in burglaries in the period leading up to Christmas. Through feedback and intel, the neighbourhood policing team are able to focus on existing and emerging hotspots for burglary.
Operation Grotto is TVP South Buck's crime initiative to reduce and prevent burglaries during the festive season. There will be an increased number of overt patrols in hotspot areas, as well as utilisation of enhanced intel gathering to see more arrests of offenders. There will also be a focus on distribution of crime reduction advice to members of the public.

Streamlining the response and investigation of retail crime, including shoplifting - Shoplifting as well as other retail crime such as vandalism, anti social behaviour within shops and various types of fraud continues to be a concern for retail workers and shop owners.

The NHPT will aim to build a closer relationship with the shops and it's workers within High Wycombe, increasing staff's and owner's confidence in talking to the police. This will be carried out through increased community engagement in that area.
The team will also promote the use of the DISC app to enable faster and easier reporting. For more information about the disk app, please visit discagainstcrime.com
In addition, the team will also devise guidance and plans to gather evidence and prosecute offenders after shopliftings and other retail offences have occurred.

There has been various anti social behaviours in the town centre, including aggressive begging and rough sleeping, as well as drug use.

The NHPT will continue to increase visible police patrols in the Town Centre, they will also make use of legislation and work closely with partners including BIDCo and Bucks County Council to decrease issues such as aggressive begging, rough sleeping, drug use and littering.
Recently, the NHPT have worked to disperse rough sleeping in the underpass near the university and clean up the items that the dwellers have left behind. Through working with partner agencies, they have also ensured that those who have been moved along have been receiving and continue to receive support for issues such as lack of housing and drug addiction.

Anti social behaviour in the town centre and surrounding areas

The neighbourhood policing team are working to ensure that as many shops as possible have town link radios so they can keep in communication with officers about any criminal activity taking place during the day, allowing for incidents to be responded to promptly. The team are routinely working closely with shop staff and encouraging them to keep reporting in order to pursue offenders.
The team are also currently prioritising unlawful forms of public begging following an increase in these instances. Vulnerable members of the public are usually targeted, at times even being pressured to go to cash machines to be able to give money. The team will be robust in dealing with this, obtaining CCTV of the offences, working with council street wardens and ensuring they obtain any witness statements from members of the public.
High visibility patrols continue to take place in the town centre and other areas most impacted by criminal activity, such as the retail park on London road. The neighbourhood team use their “hotspot” app to keep track of their patrols and ensure all required areas have been visited.

If you have any information please report on 101 or online at www. thamesvalley.police.uk.
Call 999 if crime in progress or you are at risk of harm.

Drug offences

Drug offences are a top concern within the community. The neighbourhood team are working to gather and build on intelligence surrounding drug possession, drug dealing and county drugs lines in order to put a stop to drugs operations and see offenders dealt with accordingly. High visibility patrols will be taking place in areas identified to be the most impacted by drug offences, these will be locations such as: the train station, dovecot carpark, eastern street carpark and birdcage walk. Dovecot carpark has been a consistent hotspot for drug offences which has lead to a partial closure order being placed on the premises. This has recently been extended. Police are dealing with those who choose to breach the closure order robustly, while the council and business community continue to work on long term solutions to ensure the carpark is a safe and clean space for customers.
If you have any information please report on 101 or online at www. thamesvalley.police.uk.
Call 999 if crime in progress or you are at risk of harm.

Speeding

Speeding has been raised as a concern by residents due to the safety issues and subsequent anti-social behaviour that comes along with reckless driving. The neighbourhood teams will be conducting periodic speeding enforcement with speed guns on roads identified to be most affected. Most recently speed enforcement was carried out by the team in Cressex following an increasing number of reports of dangerous driving in the area.
Neighbourhood staff have also been promoting the community speed watch groups to local residents who are concerned about road safety in their community. This is a voluntary scheme that allows members of the public to join a group in their area to carry out speed checks and enforcement. It is statistically highly effective in preventing road offenders reoffending. For more information please visit: www.communityspeedwatch.org

If you have any information please report on 101 or online at www. thamesvalley.police.uk.
Call 999 if crime in progress or you are at risk of harm.

Anti social behaviour in the town centre and surrounding areas

The neighbourhood policing team are working to ensure that as many shops as possible have town link radios so they can keep in communication with officers about any criminal activity taking place during the day, allowing for incidents to be responded to promptly. The team are routinely working closely with shop staff and encouraging them to keep reporting in order to pursue offenders.
The team are also currently prioritising unlawful forms of public begging following an increase in these instances. Vulnerable members of the public are usually targeted, at times even being pressured to go to cash machines to be able to give money. The team will be robust in dealing with this, obtaining CCTV of the offences, working with council street wardens and ensuring they obtain any witness statements from members of the public.
High visibility patrols continue to take place in the town centre and other areas most impacted by criminal activity, such as the retail park on London road. The neighbourhood team use their “hotspot” app to keep track of their patrols and ensure all required areas have been visited.

If you have any information please report on 101 or online at www. thamesvalley.police.uk.
Call 999 if crime in progress or you are at risk of harm.

Drug offences

Drug offences are a top concern within the community. The neighbourhood team are working to gather and build on intelligence surrounding drug possession, drug dealing and county drugs lines in order to put a stop to drugs operations and see offenders dealt with accordingly. High visibility patrols will be taking place in areas identified to be the most impacted by drug offences, these will be locations such as: the train station, dovecot carpark, eastern street carpark and birdcage walk. Dovecot carpark has been a consistent hotspot for drug offences which has lead to a partial closure order being placed on the premises. This has recently been extended. Police are dealing with those who choose to breach the closure order robustly, while the council and business community continue to work on long term solutions to ensure the carpark is a safe and clean space for customers.
If you have any information please report on 101 or online at www. thamesvalley.police.uk.
Call 999 if crime in progress or you are at risk of harm.

Speeding

Speeding has been raised as a concern by residents due to the safety issues and subsequent anti-social behaviour that comes along with reckless driving. The neighbourhood teams will be conducting periodic speeding enforcement with speed guns on roads identified to be most affected. Most recently speed enforcement was carried out by the team in Cressex following an increasing number of reports of dangerous driving in the area.
Neighbourhood staff have also been promoting the community speed watch groups to local residents who are concerned about road safety in their community. This is a voluntary scheme that allows members of the public to join a group in their area to carry out speed checks and enforcement. It is statistically highly effective in preventing road offenders reoffending. For more information please visit: www.communityspeedwatch.org

If you have any information please report on 101 or online at www. thamesvalley.police.uk.
Call 999 if crime in progress or you are at risk of harm.

Anti social behaviour in the town centre and surrounding areas

The neighbourhood policing team are working to ensure that as many shops as possible have town link radios so they can keep in communication with officers about any criminal activity taking place during the day, allowing for incidents to be responded to promptly. The team are routinely working closely with shop staff and encouraging them to keep reporting in order to pursue offenders.
The team are also currently prioritising unlawful forms of public begging following an increase in these instances. Vulnerable members of the public are usually targeted, at times even being pressured to go to cash machines to be able to give money. The team will be robust in dealing with this, obtaining CCTV of the offences, working with council street wardens and ensuring they obtain any witness statements from members of the public.
High visibility patrols continue to take place in the town centre and other areas most impacted by criminal activity, such as the retail park on London road. The neighbourhood team use their “hotspot” app to keep track of their patrols and ensure all required areas have been visited.

If you have any information please report on 101 or online at www. thamesvalley.police.uk.
Call 999 if crime in progress or you are at risk of harm.

Drug offences

Drug offences are a top concern within the community. The neighbourhood team are working to gather and build on intelligence surrounding drug possession, drug dealing and county drugs lines in order to put a stop to drugs operations and see offenders dealt with accordingly. High visibility patrols will be taking place in areas identified to be the most impacted by drug offences, these will be locations such as: the train station, dovecot carpark, eastern street carpark and birdcage walk. Dovecot carpark has been a consistent hotspot for drug offences which has lead to a partial closure order being placed on the premises. This has recently been extended. Police are dealing with those who choose to breach the closure order robustly, while the council and business community continue to work on long term solutions to ensure the carpark is a safe and clean space for customers.
If you have any information please report on 101 or online at www. thamesvalley.police.uk.
Call 999 if crime in progress or you are at risk of harm.

Speeding

Speeding has been raised as a concern by residents due to the safety issues and subsequent anti-social behaviour that comes along with reckless driving. The neighbourhood teams will be conducting periodic speeding enforcement with speed guns on roads identified to be most affected. Most recently speed enforcement was carried out by the team in Cressex following an increasing number of reports of dangerous driving in the area.
Neighbourhood staff have also been promoting the community speed watch groups to local residents who are concerned about road safety in their community. This is a voluntary scheme that allows members of the public to join a group in their area to carry out speed checks and enforcement. It is statistically highly effective in preventing road offenders reoffending. For more information please visit: www.communityspeedwatch.org

If you have any information please report on 101 or online at www. thamesvalley.police.uk.
Call 999 if crime in progress or you are at risk of harm.

Anti social behaviour and shoplifting in the town centre and surrounding areas

Shoplifting, especially prolific repeat shoplifters, can have a deeply negative impact on the local community and increase overall criminality in an area. In Wycombe, we see this primarily in the town centre. Shoplifters can put shop staff in a position where they are fearing for their safety and have to justify loss of stock to their bosses, loss of stock building up over time can take a large toll on our local businesses. Police sergeant Lovell has obtained additional funding which has meant that the Town Centre is receiving significantly more patrols daily. There has been some very positive results from this in the last three month:
•Forty people being arrested for over 100 offences.
•Twenty five people remanded to court.
•A Criminal Behaviour Order obtained on a repeat shoplifting offender.
•A Civil injunction obtained on a repeat aggressive beggar.
•Thirty stop checks.
•Eight people put on drugs diversion courses.
•The Town Centre has a crime outcome rate of 24%, which is a large improvement.
Analytical data provided by the home office has resulted in 7620 minutes of dedicated foot patrols in the town centre and 940 minutes of targeted patrols in Castlefield in the afternoons and the evenings.

If you have any information please report on 101 or online at www. thamesvalley.police.uk.
Call 999 if a crime is in progress or you are at risk of harm.

Drug offences

The neighbourhood team are working to gather and build on intelligence surrounding drug possession, drug dealing and county drugs lines in order to put a stop to drugs operations and see offenders dealt with accordingly. High visibility patrols will continue to take place in areas identified to be the most impacted by drug offences, these will be locations such as: the train station, dovecot carpark, eastern street carpark and birdcage walk.

The Neighbourhood team also continue to work closely with the Proactive team who are heavily involved in tackling drug offences. Over the past few months multiple warrants have been carried out on properties identified to be associated with drug activity, with significant amounts of class A drugs being seized and offenders subsequently charged for being concerned in the supply of drugs.

If you have any information please report on 101 or online at www. thamesvalley.police.uk.
Call 999 if a crime is in progress or you are at risk of harm.

Speeding

To support the community speed watch groups, we will try to allocate them neighbourhood policing support on roads most identified to be a problem. For this purpose, we have recently obtained new speeding guns for our PCSO and we are currently planning for them to start carrying out speed assessments. So far, checks have been carried out on Lucas Road. We are also planning to train more PCs on this process so there will be an increased focus on targeting speeding in 2025.

The Department of Transport statistics showed that speed was the contributing factor in almost a third of road deaths in 2022. To tackle this problem effectively as a society, we need to challenge and build a stigma against those who speed, with the aim to make it as socially unacceptable as drink driving. This requires a community effort. If you are concerned about the speeds in your area, you can become a member of your local Speedwatch group or start your own. For more information please visit: https://www.communityspeedwatch.org It was good to get out with the Amersham Hill group last month and see how well and efficiently they worked as a team.

In Thames Valley there are 318 community speed watch groups with over 2500 volunteers. In the last 12 months they produced over 46,000 reports. The scheme has a 95.38% success rate of preventing people from reoffending. This ratio is based on drivers who have received the first letter from us and then not going through the community speed watch system within a 12 month period.

Our roads safety vans and fixed cameras provide enforcement and a visual deterrent across the area. The aim of the enforcement we carry out is to reduce the speed of traffic, making the roads safer for all road users and reduce the risk of injury, collisions and casualties. In Wycombe, 1454 fixed penalty tickets were issued in September, 1169 in October and 1310 in November.

If you have any information please report on 101 or online at www. thamesvalley.police.uk.
Call 999 if a crime is in progress or you are at risk of harm.