Your neighbourhood policing team
Our ambition is to provide a neighbourhood policing service of which you, and we, can be proud. Prevention will be at the heart of our work, through well-informed collaborative problem-solving, building participation and strengthening the communities we serve. We will remain part of those communities, known and accessible to you, and policing in a way that both prevents harm and enhances your trust in us.
Our approach is shaped by five key themes: accessibility, prevention, vulnerability, relationships and partnerships. These will underpin all areas of our service and form the basis of our neighbourhood policing offer.
Your inspector for Cheltenham is Steve Benbow, pictured.
Crimes and priorities
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Action taken:
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To focus on persons of interest whom are prolific shoplifters. Work in partnership with Cheltenham BID, Cheltenham Daysafe and Solace. Using civil injunctions and criminal behaviour orders to deter these individuals.
Action taken:
2 Persistent Offenders have been arrested and remanded in Prison, Serving a couple of months each. Unfortunately they have both now been released from Prison. However, both have been given Injunctions and every time they breach, they can be arrested, depending on the level of evidence. The conditions of the Injunctions are not to go into certain shops or certain mapped areas of Cheltenham as well as other conditions. One offender has now breached these conditions, plus re-offended and has been sent to Prison for 82 weeks. This hard work by the team will continue, in partnership with Cheltenham Daysafe ( Shop security guards) and Cheltenham BID
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Op Ash - Hotspot patrols are being completed, focussing on the Hotspot areas, where anti-social behaviour is present within the town centre.
Action taken:
Patrols continue by the local team, and data is constantly being reviewed by the team, as to where patrols should carried out due to the demand being recorded. These patrols will continue by the local team, in the New Year, especially after the success of OP KRACKER which was a shoplifting operations over the Xmas period, where local Officers were flooding Retails areas in Cheltenham with Patrols.
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The New Partnership Graffiti Scheme has been set up in Cheltenham, especially covering the Town Centre.
Action taken:
The Partnership working group consists of Police working with the BID, The Council and Public to remove Graffiti a.s.a.p. to try and identify those carrying out the damage and prosecute them. Work continues. The working group meets regularly to come up with new processes and share information. Ongoing work by the Team in trying to ID those suspected of continuing to graffiti the area.
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The team are focussing on crime prevention for bicycle theft and Burglaries in the area.
Action taken:
Bike Marking Events continue in the area ( as advertised on our Facebook and X social media pages) and WIDE crime prevention advice leaflets have been distributed in the local area when a Bike theft or Burglary has occurred. This will continue, especially during the Winter months , when it is dark for longer. Another Bike Extravaganza is being planned in Jan 2025 , check out our Facebook page for details