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Neighbourhood Priorities

Ward Area – Leeds East wide - set February 2024

Lead Inspector: INSP 4072 Nicholls

Lead Sergeants: PS 3893 Attree, PS 1125 Bell and PS 3315 Ellis

  • To address serious and organised criminality, whilst disrupting and pursuing offenders who cause harm to the communities we serve. As part of CommUnity Harehills the Clear, Hold and Build Home Office initiative, alongside Operation Anthenmill, Operation Bakegreen and Operation Doleedge, we will target and disrupt offenders involved in serious and organised criminality. We aim to achieve this through a range of policing tactics, including gathering intelligence to identify those involved in such criminality. We will monitor and respond to incident demands, collate evidence, conduct disruption visits on known offenders, and will hold targeted days of action and planned operations across the Leeds East ward areas. In addition, we will continue to work collaboratively alongside partner agencies to utilise all enforcement methods available, against those repeatedly involved in such criminality whilst ensuring vulnerable victims are safeguarded accordingly. 

Update 13th February 2024

 

  • Following the introduction of Operation Dieselcrest in July 2023 and the local priority set in October 2022, to address anti-social motorcycles, vehicular nuisance, and associated criminality across Leeds East ward areas there has been a significant reduction in nuisance motorcycle and quad bike calls, in comparison to the previous year. The local priority across Leeds East Neighbourhood Policing Teams, has now been changed to focus on targeting Serious and Organised criminality, with a targeted emphasis on Urban Street Gangs (USG’s) and Organised Criminal Groups (OCG’s).
  • Multiple actions were taken to address the previous local priority, and several news releases and updates were circulated whilst the local priority was in place. These actions included the implementation of Operation Republic alongside North Yorkshire Police, working alongside Leeds City Council who secured a city PSPO – Public Spaces Protection Order. In addition, fourteen Community Protection Notices were issued, a total of four two-years Anti-Social Behaviour Injunctions obtained and one five-year Criminal Behaviour Order. Multiple motorcycles and quad bikes were seized during the targeted focus and proactive patrols. We will continue to address reported demands through deployments of the Neighbourhood Policing Teams and dedicated Off-Road Bike Team.
  • News releases were previously published, during the period the local priority was in place and can be accessed via the below links:
  1. Police forces join together to tackle illegal car meets | North Yorkshire Police
  2. Anti-social Behaviour Awareness Week sees city-wide Public Space Protection Order comes into force (leeds.gov.uk)
  3. Fourteen Vehicle Licences Immediately Suspended During Road Safety Operations, Leeds East | West Yorkshire Police

Inner East Priorities

Ward Area - Burmantofts and Richmond Hill - set August 2023

Lead Sergeant: PS 3893 Attree
Lead Area Problem Solving Officer: PC 1001 Coopman and PC 1353 Rooks

  • To address reports of urban street gangs and organised criminal groups involved in serious and organised crime, particularly across the Lincoln Green and Burmantofts section of the ward. We will gather intelligence and disrupt offenders involved in urban street gangs, organised criminal groups as part of Operation Anthenmill and we will arrest offenders. We will work collaboratively alongside partner agencies to ensure vulnerable victims are identified, signposted, and safeguarded accordingly. We will work proactively alongside partner agencies and third sectors to educate, disrupt, and divert young people away from criminality.
  • To address reports of drugs supply and use across Burmantofts and Richmond Hill. As part of the Clear, Hold and Build initiative and Operation Bakegreen, we will gather community intelligence to obtain and conduct drugs warrants on properties, involved in the supply of drugs. We will conduct proactive and targeted patrols, to gather intelligence and disrupt offenders involved in such criminality. We will seek to obtain warrants and bring offenders, involved in the supply of drugs to justice.

Update 29th January 2024

  • To address the local priorities across the ward, since the introduction of Operation Anthenmill NPT officers have executed multiple warrants, stopped and searched several individuals, seized weapons and a significant quantity of drugs. The actions have resulted in arrests, with individuals charged for offences of possession with intent to supply Class A and B drugs, possession of weapons and associated crimes. To date a number of the identified and arrested persons have received custodial sentences, and several individuals currently remain under investigation. We have published a full local priority update in relation to the results and actions taken which can be accessed at: Burmantofts and Richmond Hill Local Priority Updates - Operation Anthenmill Actions Results in Multiple Custodial Sentences | West Yorkshire Police
  • We continue to identify and disrupt offenders and the multi-agency approach remains in place for individuals at risk of cuckooing, regular meetings are held, and support mechanisms are in place for vulnerable victims. Working alongside Leeds City Council Anti-Social Behaviour Team, several partial premise closure orders have been secured on properties, across the affected localities.
  • Multiple days of action have been held across the ward and supported by West Yorkshire Operational Support Teams and partner agencies. In recent months, days of action included partnership operations with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Leeds City Council departments such as Leeds Anti-Social Behaviour Team, Housing, Licensing and Parking Services. Resulting in intelligence gathered, warnings issues, notices served and action taken for illegal parking.
  • Police Community Support Officers continue to conduct engagement sessions alongside Youth Provision providers, across the ward to build positive relations with young people. Focused educational inputs, in relation to cyber safety, county lines, knife and drug related crime have been delivered, to raise awareness of the dangers and to divert young people away from criminality. In addition, we have implemented new engagement lessons with Years 5 and 6 pupils, prior to their transition into high school.
  • A new programme is being set up and chaired by West Yorkshire Police to deliver, focused diversionary activities to young people in secondary school's to identify and engage with young people on the periphery of becoming involved in criminality. We are currently liaising with many agencies, public services, armed forces and secondary schools, with a view to achieving core offers, engagements and service delivery. 

Ward Area - Gipton and Harehills - set August 2023

Lead Sergeant: PS 633 Goringe and PS 3315 Ellis
Lead Area Problem Solving Officer: PC 2640 Rawson, PC 1875 Farrar, and PC 5789 Dixon

  • To address reports and incidents linked to drugs supply, organised criminality, and street drinking, with a particular focus along Harehills Road, the Bayswater’s, and Ashton's in the Harehills section of the ward. As part of the Clear, Hold and Build Home Office initiative, locally named as CommUnity Harehills we will work with the community to develop intelligence and act on reports, and information received. We will hold targeted days of action, multi-agency operations and seek to obtain warrants, to pursue and disrupt offending.
  • To target youth-related anti-social behaviour throughout Harehills. We will increase high visibility patrols across the raised and identified locations, to identify young people involved. We will work closely with partners in Youth Service Provisions, to engage with young people, in order to direct them into available diversionary activities. In addition, we will liaise with Leeds City Council Anti-Social Behaviour Team, to review and take action against those repeatedly involved in anti-social behaviour.

Update 13th February 2023

 

  • Officers have conducted extensive work across Harehills, following the launch of CommUnity Harehills on Friday 23rd July 2023, to target serious and organised crime as part of the Home Office’s ‘Clear, Hold, Build’ tactic, New Campaign Against Organised Crime To Build Change For Harehills Community | West Yorkshire Police which aims to rescue areas of the country most blighted by organised crime. 
  • We have recently published a local priority update, to provide an overview of recent warrants and operations conducted across Harehills and previous news releases circulated. The local priority update can be accessed at: CommUnity Harehills Local Priority Updates – Police and Partners Achieve Positive Results, Through Targeted Operations, Enforcement Action, and Community Engagements | West Yorkshire Police
  • The update highlights the extensive work conducted as part of CommUnity Harehills with a whole system approach, from police, partner agencies, third sectors and communities. Significant results achieved with drugs, vehicles, illicit tobacco, electronic vapes, cash and vehicles seized. This approach has resulted in multiple custodial sentences, premise closure orders and off-licensed premise licenses revoked and much more.
  • NPT officers continue to deploy to locations identified, as repeat demand areas for anti-social behaviour. PCSO's have also been assigned to attend CATCH every three weeks and the Junior Sports Hub, to engage with and build positive relations with young people whilst educating them on the dangers, consequences and impact of anti-social behaviour and criminality. In addition, a Youth Forum has been established at the Junior Sports Hub which is held every six weeks. The next Youth Forum is due to be held on the 19th March 2024, at 18:00 hrs. You can keep up to date with our events and meetings at: Events and meetings | West Yorkshire Police

Ward Area - Killingbeck and Seacroft - set April 2023

Lead Sergeant: PS 2065 Penny
Lead Area Problem Solving Officer: PC 1000 Bradley, PC 3558 Yates and PC 4133 Croft

  • To proactively address reports of drugs supply across the Seacroft ward and take positive enforcement actions. We will conduct targeted patrols to gather intelligence, and disrupt offenders involved in the supply of drugs. We will seek to obtain warrants and bring offenders involved in the supply of drugs to justice.
  • To seek to reduce the levels of youth related anti-social behaviour and criminality, with a particular focus across on the Seacroft retail park. We will deploy police resources to conduct targeted and proactive patrols, across the affected street locations, and retail premises. We will engage with retail premises regarding repeat behaviours identified, collating CCTV evidence of criminality and anti-social behaviour. We will seek to take enforcement action against those repeatedly identified, as being involved in such behaviour. We will also engage with and educate young people on the dangers of entering derelict buildings, whilst signposting them into suitable youth provisions available.

Update 26th January 2024

  • Officers executed a warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act in the South Seacroft section of the ward, resulting in an adult male being arrested and cannabis seized. In addition, on the 15th January 2024, officers were conducting targeted and proactive patrols across the Brooklands, following reports of Burglary occurrences in the area. Officers witnessed a suspected drugs exchange, and after a short foot chase a male juvenile was detained and subject to a stop and search. A quantity of cannabis and cash was located, resulting in the juvenile being arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply Class B drugs.
  • To address reports of drugs supply across the ward, on Monday 22nd January 2024 a Section 23 Misuse of Drugs warrant was executed on Tarnside Drive,  Seacroft by officers from the Leeds District Neighbourhood Impact Team and NPT Team. The action resulted in over £16000 worth of Class B drugs being seized, two adults were arrested and charged for various offences. A local news release was published and can be accessed at: Over £16k Worth Of Drugs Seized Following Misuse of Drugs Warrant In Seacroft, Leeds | West Yorkshire Police 
  • As part of Neighbourhood Policing Week 2024, officers have conducted multiple targeted and proactive patrols across the ward to address reported demands and the local priorities. Results included multiple stops and searches, two arrests and the tactical deployment of a stinger disrupting anti-social motorcycle use. You can read more about the actions taken to disrupt offenders at: Killingbeck and Seacroft NPT Officers Disrupt Offenders During Neighbourhood Policing Week | West Yorkshire Police
  • We continue to conduct targeted patrols across the Seacroft retail park, engaging with young people involved in anti-social behaviour at the sites, signposting them into local provisions available and have submitted referrals for those repeatedly identified as causing anti-social behaviour. As a result, we have liaised with the Leeds City Council Anti-Social Behaviour Team and ASB link officers, who issued several anti-social behaviour warning letters to young people involved. Multi-agency meetings were held at the site to collaboratively work with partners, to look at issues and how to address moving forward. In addition, officers deployed with the engagement vehicle daily between Friday 24th November 2023 - Monday 27th November 2023, to engage with communities and on Friday and Monday were joined by partner agencies.
  • Following proactive patrols across the Killingbeck Retail Parks and crime prevention site surveys conducted, demand has reduced and the location doesn't currently feature as a Problem-Solving area. NPT officers continue to provide a visible presence at the site, to engage with any young people and divert them into local provisions available.

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Ward Area - Crossgates and Whinmoor - set October 2023

Lead Sergeant: PS 3550 Nicholson
Lead Area Problem Solving Officer: PC 4984 Pritchard PC 3003 Hale

  • To address reports of anti-social behaviour involving young people, with a particular focus on the White Laith Shops, the Bus Terminus, Naburn Approach, and the Co-op on Swarcliffe Drive. We will utilise a multi-agency approach to tackle the rise in anti-social behaviour from young people, at the Bus Terminus and surrounding shops and buildings following reports of nuisance behaviour, bus surfing, criminal damage, and littering. We have and will continue to work with partner agencies, primarily Leeds City Council Youth Services team in order to support early intervention, educating young people as to the dangers of these types of anti-social behaviour, and will work with Leeds City Council Anti-Social Behaviour Team to review those repeatedly involved in such behaviours. We will liaise and work with First Bus Service to address the reported demands, collate and view CCTV, with a view to identifying those involved.
  • To continue our focus on addressing the use of stolen and off-road motorcycles driving illegally and in an anti-social manner in Swarcliffe, Stanks, Whinmoor and Crossgates. We have seen a significant reduction in the numbers of such motorcycles across the ward, however, we know that the motorcycles remain present in the area to some degree and our objective is to reduce this even further. We will achieve this by utilising a number of tools, primarily community information to identify where the bikes are being stored, and those responsible for the theft and illegal use of bikes. We will conduct targeted operations in line with Operation Dieselcrest, which specifically targets those offenders involved in this criminal and ASB activity, and the use of the off-road motorcycle team.

Update 23rd January 2024

  • To address anti-social behaviour and incidents of damage across the locations identified, we have provided an increased and visible presence across the areas affected and utilised the FIRST Leeds ‘Trojan’ bus to deploy to the locality. A problem-solving approach has been adopted working alongside First Leeds, West Yorkshire Police Safer Travel Team, LASBT and Youth Services. Officers have deployed in plain clothes, gathering evidence, and identifying individuals involved in the anti-social behaviour, to disrupt and prevent any offences which have previously led to the cancellation of bus services, causing a detrimental impact particularly on the elderly, disabled and vulnerable. A local news release was circulated on the 5th December 2023, to encourage parents, carers, and guardians to speak to young people regarding acceptable behaviour and how such behaviour impacts the community. You can read the release at: Local Priority Update: NPT Responds To Anti-Social Behaviour At Whinmoor Bus Terminus, Leeds | West Yorkshire Police
  • Several young people have been identified as being involved in repeat incidents of anti-social behaviour, referrals were submitted to the Leeds City Council Anti-Social Behaviour Team. As a result, nine young people have been issued with Anti-Social Behaviour advisory letters and parents have been issued with parent advisory letters and some have been issued with tenancy warnings, regarding their child's involvement in such behaviour. Behaviour will be monitored and should the young people continue to be involved in such anti-social behaviour, further enforcement action may be taken.
  • We have liaised with Leeds City Council Youth Service in our Community Safety multi-agency tasking meetings, who continue to engage with young people across the site and ward. They have implemented a targeted youth provision on Wednesday afternoon, for those identified as being at risk of being involved in anti-social behaviour across the Naburn's and continue to provide a significant amount of excellent and effective work with young people across the ward, at their well-attended youth provisions programme.
  • We continue to focus on the issue of stolen and off-road motorcycles being used across the ward area. We are pleased to report there has been a significant reduction in reported demands. However, we know that there are still a number of offenders who continue to utilise motorcycles driving in an anti-social manner and using such vehicles for criminality. Officers have worked alongside the Leeds District Off-Road Bike Team resulting in significant gains in terms of vehicle seizures, recovery of stolen motorcycles and arrests.
  • On the Sunday 21st January 2024, a Robbery took place at the Co-op on Swarcliffe Avenue. A short time after the offence Neighbourhood Policing Team officers, alongside other policing departments arrested five men. A total of four adult males were charged for various offences and were subsequently remanded into custody. Read more at Four Men Charged Following Robbery At Leeds Co-op | West Yorkshire Police

Ward Areas – Garforth and Swillington, Kippax, Methley and Villages – set February 2023

Lead Sergeant: PS 0801 Collett
Lead Area Problem Solving Officer: PC 3826 McAleese and PC 2484 Jenkins

  • To address public concerns of youth anti-social behaviour, drugs misuse and alcohol misuse across public park areas with a particular focus on Barley Hill Park, Garforth, Glebelands Park, Garforth and Rocket Park, Millennium Village, Allerton Bywater. We will continue to conduct targeted high visibility patrols at the affected locations, during peak times identified from call demand analysis and information provided by local communities. We will deploy in ‘plain clothes’ to gather intelligence and identify individuals involved in anti-social behaviour and criminality. We will work closely with the Leeds City Council Anti-Social Behaviour Team and Youth Services, to respond to any repeat youths identified and divert young people into local provisions and planned activities in the locality. We will aim to inform, engage, and provide advice for young people so they can make safer choices, whilst signposting and referring young people who need further support.
  • To target and address multiple road safety concerns including speeding and parking offences across the ward areas. We will continue to arrange planned operations in line with Fatal4 to address speeding and driving offences in the communities we serve, along with utilising Speed Indication Devices to raise public awareness. We will work closely with Leeds City Council Parking Services to address repeat incidents and reports of local parking issues and obstructions. Penalty Notices will be issued, to anyone found to be causing an obstruction and parking on a pavement.

Update 13th February 2024

 

  • We have continued to conduct multiple targeted high visibility and plain clothes Operations across Barley Hill Park, Main Street, Garforth and Fiddler Close and Lane, to address reports of anti-social behaviour and suspected drugs use.  Following the last review whereby officers identified several young people involved in anti-social behaviour and a community resolution was issued, youth related anti-social behaviour has declined across the wards. We continue to monitor and deploy across the locations, at this time.
  • As part of our ongoing commitment to address road safety concerns, we have delivered road safety lessons in schools and conducted multiple schools parking patrols, with advice given to parents regarding safe parking. On the 27th November 2023, we released our Road Safety Matters Local Priority update highlighting multiple road safety deployments, alongside West Yorkshire Police Roads Policing Unit, neighbouring forces, and partner agencies, resulting in multiple arrests, vehicles, drugs and weapon seizures and enforcement actions taken. You can read more at: Local Priority Updates For Garforth, Swillington, Kippax, Methley and Villages | West Yorkshire Police
  • Since the last local priority update, we have focused on schools parking issues across the ward following raised concerns from schools and the public highlighting dangerous and bad parking. On the 2nd February 2024, PCSO’s deployed at Great Preston Primary School, which is part of the School Streets programme, whereby parking time restrictions are in place. The deployments resulted in several tickets being issued, for dangerous and illegal parking and followed on from previous warnings issued.

Ward Area - Temple Newsam and Halton - set August 2023 

Lead Sergeant: PS 1125 Bell
Lead Area Problem Solving Officer: PC 1438 Mortimer and PC 687 Campbell

  • To address road safety concerns and road related offences, across the Temple Newsam and Halton ward with a particular focus on Temple Newsam Park and The Springs Retail Park. We will continue to proactively deploy in line with Fatal4, to address vehicular nuisance, speeding and driving offences in line with Operation Dieselcrest and Operation Republic. We will proactively deploy at peak times identified and work closely with site management teams, to obtain and review CCTV footage, in order to identify offenders. We will work closely with Leeds City Anti-Social Behaviour Team, to take enforcement action against those repeatedly involved in the anti-social use of vehicles inclusive of anti-social car meets. 
  • To address reports of urban street gangs and organised criminal groups involved in the supply of drugs and serious violence, particularly across the Wykebecks and Halton Moor sections of the ward. As part of Operation Doleedge and Operation Anthenmill, we will seek to obtain warrants and bring offenders involved in the supply of drugs and associated criminality to justice. We will utilise a range of operational tactics to disrupt offending, identify offenders and gather intelligence. We will work closely with partner agencies, to utilise all enforcement methods at our disposal, inclusive of seeking to obtain premise closure orders on properties, whilst ensuring vulnerable victims are identified, signposted and safeguarded accordingly. We will work proactively alongside partner agencies and third sectors to educate, disrupt and divert young people away from criminality.

Update 13th February 2024

 

Community and Policing Priorities are reviewed frequently and will be amended in line with community concerns, raised issues at Police and Community Together (PACT) meetings and identified risks and information obtained from local policing analysis. 

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