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.