Battins and West Leigh

ASB

BATTINS & WEST LEIGH This has been a long running piece of work for our Battins and West Leigh team where we had seen a significant reduction in crime and ASB. For the first time in quite some time we are seeing increasing issues again with a new cohort of young people who are starting to commit low level crime and disorder, and we are seeking to get straight on top of them straight away. When it comes to young people being arrested or investigated it is very difficult to update you properly as unlike adults it is simply not an option to name those we are dealing with, However as and when we can update you we will endeavour to do so.

VEHICLE CRIME

DISTRICT WIDE - THEFT FROM MOTOR VEHICLE/VEHICLE OFFENCES September saw a significant spike in vehicle crime across Havant, with a particular seat of activity either side of the A3(M) coupled with some sporadic offending elsewhere. We have taken a number of steps to try and tackle this problem including putting on extra patrols overnight targeted at a our problem areas, plain clothes and overt patrols, crime prevention advice and lots of enquires to obtain a vast amount of CCTV, ring doorbell footage and other images of potential offenders. We are waiting on forensic work for some of the offences, and we have other tactics that I cannot share here in place. On top of this we have ensured that street lighting is switched back on in large parts of the borough to prevent further offending. Please be reassured we are on it, and offending is down this month at more normal levels.

OP CAVELL

HAVANT & EMSWORTH ‘Op Cavell’ is the overarching police response to making sure that people who provide amongst the most important work in our society are protected, specifically people who work in the health sector. There are a couple of places in our area where staff are right at the sharp end of this world, and we have noticed that we need to improve the service they get from the police. This is not solely a police issue, as sometimes there are factors out of our control (design issues, unknown risks, poor CCTV etc), however my teams have a big part to play in getting this right, so we are working on improving our response to a couple of locations in this area.

E-BIKES & SCOOTERS

HAYLING ISLAND VEHICLE RELATED ASB - EBIKES & SCOOTERS We are now at the review stage of the summer and we have had plenty of feedback! We are adjusting our focus to a couple of key areas over the next few months when it comes to motorcycle nuisance and illegal use of e-bikes. We have a couple of residents meetings arranged at key locations, and I have met both with the leader of the council and the Chief Executive to discuss our tactical options in relation to certain roads on Hayling where we are getting regular issues. We also are paying attention to what appears to be a bit of increase in illegal activity in and around Langstone Bridge, specifically with illegal fishing / picking activities as per our recent post.

NUISANCE

WATERLOOVILLE NORTH/SOUTH - GENERAL ASB LEVELS INCLUDING VEHICLE RELATED NUISANCE As some of you will be aware we have been working on ASB for some time now and have implemented a new system of dealing with problems and issues which is trying to ensure that the key offenders are identified, targeted and then either prosecuted or managed by the Youth offending team (YOT). Whilst some of the offending seems quite petty, some of the crimes we are seeing are quite significant. A good example of this is that we have a significant problem with wildlife crime in what is mainly an urban area – and this is almost solely down to young people using catapults of all things to harm wild animals. There are various strands of work to tackle these issues and I will continue to update you as the winter progresses.