🚓 Community Policing Update – Yesterday's Activity Across Medway

🚓 Community Policing Update – Yesterday's Activity Across Medway

I wanted to provide you with an update regarding Drug taking, which people around your area have highlighted as an issue of concern on the priority survey.

🚓 Community Policing Update – Yesterday's Activity Across Medway
Your local neighbourhood policing team has been out proactively engaging with the community, tackling crime, and addressing concerns in hotspot areas across Gillingham and Chatham.
📍 Proactive Patrols & Enforcement ✅ 1 Stop Search conducted in the Gillingham hotspot area
✅ 6 Stop Searches conducted within the hotspot area in Chatham
✅ 1 Traffic Offence Report (TOR) issued for a driving offence
🤝 Community Resolutions and positive disposals ✅ 5 Community Resolutions delivered, providing proportionate outcomes and helping to address lower-level offending within our communities.
🏘️ Partnership Working ✅ 2 Joint Council Meetings conducted within the hotspot area of Chatham High Street, resulting in Notices to Leave being issued to occupants of tents in the area. This work forms part of our ongoing partnership approach to improving community safety, reducing anti-social behaviour, and supporting those who may require assistance from partner agencies.
Thank you to everyone who continues to speak with officers, share information, and report concerns. Your support helps us build safer neighbourhoods for everyone.
📞 If you have information about crime or anti-social behaviour in your area, please report it via 101, online, or anonymously through Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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The illicit drugs market is big business, worth an estimated £9.4 billion a year and drug deaths have reached an all-time. Taking the health harms, costs of crime and wider impacts on society together, it is estimated the total costs of drugs to society are over £19 billion, which is more than twice the value of the market itself.

If you are adversely affected by antisocial behaviour in your community associated with drug use, The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 outlines the flexible tools and powers that the police, local authorities and other local agencies can use to respond quickly and effectively to antisocial behaviour.

If you ever experience this issue or have information regarding an incident, please report it using our online reporting tools at https://www.kent.police.uk, speak to an operator in our Force Communications Room via our online web chat or call the non-emergency number 101.

Alternatively, you can stay 100 per cent anonymous by contacting the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or via their untraceable online form at crimestoppers-uk.org.

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