NG2 JUNE/JULY 2021
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WEST BRIDGFORD POLICE STATION<br />
Rectory Rd, West Bridgford<br />
<strong>NG2</strong> 6BN<br />
Neighbourhood Policing Insp.<br />
Inspector Craig Berry<br />
Neighbourhood Policing Sgt.<br />
Sgt 2302 Sarah Merrall<br />
101 Ext 310 2302<br />
Knife Crime Team Doubles In Size<br />
help keep communities safe.<br />
WEST BRIDGFORD TEAM<br />
PC 3171 Lauren Prater<br />
Tel: 101 ext: 310 3171<br />
PC 2760 Usman Tambu<br />
Tel: 101 ext: 310 2760<br />
PCSO 9651 Lisa Bee<br />
Tel: 07525 226404<br />
PCSO 8094 Jane Barker<br />
Tel: 07702 141575<br />
PCSO 8133 Lee Sampson<br />
Tel: 07702 141707<br />
PCSO 9819 Vee Mawer<br />
Tel: 07702 141778<br />
PCSO 4781 Jodie Turner<br />
Tel: 07824 457222<br />
Visit us online:<br />
www.nottinghamshire.police.uk<br />
Email:<br />
Rushcliffe.northpa@nottinghamshire.<br />
pnn.police.uk<br />
Find us on Facebook<br />
Find your Safer Neighbourhoods<br />
team by entering your postcode on<br />
the homepage of<br />
www.nottinghamshire.police.uk<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 />
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.