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Neighbourhood Priorities

Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB)

Anti-Social Behaviour came out as a second priority in our surveys. ASB impacts on people’s lives and can be extremely personal. We are committed to supporting the community and tackling this head on.

Issue Date Tuesday 1st October 2024

The force operation for ASB is Operation Relentless. You will see this mentioned on many of our social media posts.
The NPT Inspector chairs a monthly ASB Intelligence meeting with stakeholders from mental health teams, schools, housing, and council colleagues (to name a few) to discuss problems and investigate partnership solutions. It identifies who is the best placed agency to manage the problems. We identify opportunities for multi-partnership interventions, education into schools and targeted visits between housing, police, and ASB teams.
The team have received bespoke training in maximising the intelligence systems, to clearly identify hotspot locations. This then informs their patrols. These are intelligence led and with a purpose to be in the right area at the right time. We will also maximise our opportunities with engagement activity to gather your opinions, information and help shape our work.
Our hotspot areas are subject of reviews and the team complete plans to set objectives around reduction of incidents of ASB. The results are proving successful, and we have had some positive reductions in some of our key locations. I would urge you to follow us on social media to see how this is delivered.
Identified persons bringing misery to our communities will be dealt with in conjunction with the ASB team from BCP Council to signpost offenders through the agreed escalation processes. We continue to deploy alongside BCP in partnership patrols in Poole. BCP Council supports this approach through the deployment of Community Safety Patrol Officers (CSAS). These officers work with NPT and participate in joint briefings to understand the problems and a joint response. We use these opportunities to identify those repeat callers and look to support those suffering from this behaviour. We work extremely closely with the dedicated ASB Officer from BCP Council to problem solve and enforce.

Action Date Saturday 1st March 2025

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Drugs

Drug Dealing came out top in the concerns raised most recently in our priority surveys. As a team we understand that this has a detrimental impact on the local community, often it involves exploitation and vulnerability. The team are on top of the intelligence picture in Poole and we regularly task out work from this.
Poole NPT are committed to trying to tackle this issue. Our response is based around scanning to understand what is happening, analysis of the problem (who, why, where, when and how), together with a response and then a period of assessment to see whether this was successful or otherwise.

Issue Date Tuesday 1st October 2024

We understand that the links between drugs, crime, and anti-social behaviour (ASB). Through Dorset Police’s Operation Viper our response is coordinated to tackle the issues. We will relentlessly pursue those who drug deal in our communities. We will also look to signpost individuals for support to tackle their addiction. We also work with our Safer Schools Team to try and deter addiction from an early age. St Mungo’s to support the street homeless community who are also vulnerable to substance abuse and targeting by dealers.
We will highlight areas of concern and look for wider support from across the force, where needed. We work with the Neighbourhood Enforcement Team (NET) to address matters that concerns that community. We will utilise our powers under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 to close premises which meet the given thresholds to bring respite to the community. This work also extends to collaboration with the BCP ASB Team to utilise civil orders to help problem solve. We will use policing powers, such as stop and search, effectively and will maintain our legitimacy whilst doing so. We wear body worn video and review interactions through scrutiny panels and use of force.
We encourage anyone with concerns to report these through to us via this website. We use this to build information to obtain warrants, inform our targeted patrols and bring offenders to justice.

Action Date Saturday 1st March 2025

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Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB)

Drug Dealing came out top in the concerns raised most recently in our priority surveys. As a team we understand that this has a detrimental impact on the local community. The team carry out regular checks on vulnerable persons who are subject to being ‘cuckooed’. This is where dealers will exploit those who use drugs, take over their homes using violence and threats of violence. We work to reduce the risk to such individuals.

Issue Date Sunday 1st October 2023

We understand that there are links between drugs, crime, and anti-social behaviour (ASB). We work with partner agencies to bring collaborative approaches to problem solving. We will work with our dedicated Design Out Crime Officer to safeguard those subject to exploitation. We will make referrals to partner agencies to tackle addiction. We will also be on the front foot when it comes to targeting those dealing in our community. We will use policing powers to stop and search persons suspected of dealing where we have grounds to do so.
Early intervention work is carried out through our Safer Schools Team to try and deter addiction from an early age. We will also work with St Mungo’s to support the street homeless community who are also vulnerable to substance abuse and targeting by dealers.
The team contribute to the wider force approach to drugs dealing under Operation Viper. We will highlight areas of concern and look for wider force support where needed. We work with the Neighbourhood Enforcement Team (NET) to address matters that concerns that community. We will utilise our powers under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 to close premises which meet the given thresholds to bring respite to the community. This work also extends to collaboration with the BCP ASB Team to utilise civil orders to help problem solve.
We encourage anyone with concerns to report these through to us via this website. We use this to build information to obtain warrants, inform our targeted patrols and bring offenders to justice.

Action Date Monday 1st January 2024

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Drugs & County Lines ASB came out as a second priority in our surveys. ASB impacts on people’s lives and can be extremely personal. We are committed to supporting the community and tackling this head on. The Inspector chairs a monthly ASB Intelligence meeting with stakeholders from mental health teams, schools, housing, and council colleagues (to name a few) to discuss problems and investigate partnership solutions.
Early intervention, education and enforcement are all key areas of our plans around tackling ASB in Poole.

Issue Date Sunday 1st October 2023

We work under the force response to ASB, known as Op Relentless. This is something we use on our social media channels to demonstrate the patrols being undertaken.
We use data to identify hot spots and have targeted patrols at key times to deter this behaviour. We work with the ASB team from BCP Council to signpost offenders through the agreed escalation process (known as the Consequence Scheme for youth people). We use a similar process of escalation for adults. Sometimes we deploy with other teams within the police such as the Safer Schools Team and sometimes we deploy alongside ASB Officers from BCP.
BCP Council supports this approach through the deployment of Community Safety Patrol Officers (CSAS). These officers work with NPT and participate in joint briefings to understand the problems and a joint response. We use these opportunities to identify those repeat callers and look to support those suffering from this behaviour. We work extremely closely with the dedicated ASB Officer from BCP Council to problem solve and enforce.
We have come through a very busy seasonal demand period and have run regular operations in hot spot areas relating to anti-social use of vehicles (Op Charge), youth related ASB at the beach (Op Sandman) as well as targeted work in other areas focusing on local issues.

Action Date Sunday 1st October 2023

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Neighbourhood Events

Poole North - Community Contact Point - Sainsbury's Local
Tuesday 8th October 2024
from 2:00PM to 3:00PM
Sainsbury's Local, Orchard Plaza, 39 High St, Poole BH15 1EG, UK

Poole North - Community Contact Point - Merley Parade
Saturday 19th October 2024
from 2:00PM to 3:00PM
54 Sopwith Cres, Merley, Oakley, Wimborne BH21 1SQ, UK

Poole North - Broadstone Middle School Fireworks
Saturday 26th October 2024
from 5:00PM to 7:00PM
Broadstone Middle School, Dunyeats Rd, Broadstone, Poole BH18 8AE, UK