NG16 JUNE/JULY 2021
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HOW TO CONTACT YOUR<br />
LOCAL BEAT TEAM<br />
Eastwood Police Station<br />
120B Nottingham Road,<br />
Eastwood, <strong>NG16</strong> 3AJ<br />
Tel: 101 ext: 318 9720<br />
front counter open<br />
Monday-Friday: 10am-6pm<br />
Neighbourhood Policing Insp.<br />
Inspector Simon Riley<br />
Neighbourhood Policing Sgt<br />
Sgt 3541 Alison Bryan<br />
101 Ext: 318 9720<br />
EASTWOOD<br />
PCSO 8199 Richards<br />
Tel: 101 Ext: 310 8199<br />
PC 2645 Reynolds<br />
Tel: 101 Ext: 310 2465<br />
PCSO 8805 Cupit<br />
Tel: 101 Ext: 310 8805<br />
EASTWOOD SOUTH<br />
PC 2596 Ward<br />
Tel: 101 Ext: 310 2596<br />
PCSO 7168 Holbrook<br />
Tel: 101 Ext: 310 7168<br />
EASTWOOD NORTH<br />
PC 4027 Leask<br />
Tel: 101 Ext: 310 4027<br />
PCSO 8883 Keeley<br />
Tel: 101 Ext: 310 8883<br />
Knife Crime Team Doubles In Size<br />
A specialist police team committed<br />
to driving down knife crime in<br />
Nottinghamshire now has even more<br />
teeth after doubling in size.<br />
An extra sergeant and six police<br />
constables have beefed up the numbers<br />
on Nottinghamshire Police’s successful<br />
Knife Crime Team, increasing its capacity<br />
to tackle violence and crime, remove<br />
dangerous weapons and drugs from the<br />
streets and keep people safe.<br />
It’s a welcome boost to the force’s<br />
ongoing work to further reduce knife<br />
crime by working closely with partners,<br />
including Nottinghamshire’s enterprising<br />
Violence Reduction Unit, and by using a<br />
combination of engagement, education<br />
and enforcement.<br />
The boost in numbers comes after<br />
latest official figures by the Office for<br />
National Statistics show that knife crime<br />
in Nottinghamshire reduced by 4% in the<br />
year end to September 2020, compared<br />
to the previous year.<br />
Nottinghamshire’s fall in knife crime<br />
was in stark contrast to the regional and<br />
national picture (East Midlands regional<br />
average rise of 2% and nationwide fall of<br />
3% across England and Wales).<br />
The new Knife Crime Team recruits are<br />
based in Mansfield but can be deployed<br />
anywhere in the county, acting on<br />
intelligence and targeting those involved<br />
in criminality.<br />
They will also work closely with fellow<br />
Knife Crime Team members in the city,<br />
combining their resources effectively to<br />
help keep communities safe.<br />
The force has been able to swell the ranks<br />
of the Knife Crime Team due to being<br />
at the forefront of the national police<br />
recruitment drive through Operation Uplift,<br />
which is recruiting hundreds of extra<br />
officers to the force’s front line while also<br />
becoming more representative of the<br />
communities it serves.<br />
The new team members are determined<br />
to build on the proactive knife crime<br />
team’s impressive statistics last year<br />
which included:<br />
• 276 people arrested<br />
• 485 drug seizures<br />
• 175 vehicle seizures<br />
• 363 people reported for summons<br />
• 450 weapons seized since team’s<br />
inception in 2016<br />
• Over 35,000 miles patrolled across<br />
Nottinghamshire<br />
As well as strong enforcement<br />
action to crack down on knife crime,<br />
Nottinghamshire Police has also<br />
reintroduced schools and early<br />
intervention officers who are dedicated to<br />
working with children across the county<br />
as part of its prevention work.<br />
The force also continues to work closely<br />
with its local partners and communities<br />
to help tackle what is a societal issue<br />
through education as well as diversionary<br />
and intensive preventative intervention<br />
work. A key driver helping to steer young<br />
people away from knife crime and<br />
violence is the Violence Reduction Unit<br />
which continues to work with vulnerable<br />
individuals and families to help make a<br />
difference to young lives and put them<br />
on the road to a safer and more positive<br />
future.<br />
Street outreach workers, a custody<br />
diversion scheme and other initiatives<br />
including the Ben Kinsella Trust at the<br />
National Justice Museum also serve to<br />
educate young people and help them to<br />
make positive life choices.