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During May it is knife crime awareness week 13th May - 19th May 2024 

Officers across Derbyshire work tirelessly day in and day out to reduce knife crime in the county, whether that’s supporting community events, responding to calls of concern, or conducting early intervention work in schools.

As well as this daily commitment, the force also is committed to being involved in national campaigns and targeted work around the issue. Derbyshire Constabulary has remained one of the forces to actively take part in Operation Sceptre, a twice-yearly focus on knife crime highlighting the work being done in the county to prevent and reduce knife crime, such as weapons sweeps and community visits.

Some of our teams activities to raise awareness include; 

Wed 1st May – 10.30am Estate walk with Rykneld Homes Snape Hill estate Dronfield. 

Wed 1st May – 1-3pm Cuppa with a Copper, The Forge, High Street Dronfield 

Thur 9th May – 10.30am Holmesfield Estate Walk with Rykneld Homes - Holmesfield 

Sat 11th May – 3-4pm Street Meet, Civic Centre Dronfield 

Sun 12th May – Rural project Visits, Visiting local farms and rural dwellings 

Thur 16th May – Knife Amnesty/Crime prevention 10am – 12noon Farwater Lane Car Park

Thur 16th May 12noon-1pm Cuppa with a Copper, Dronfield Sports Centre 

Fri 17th May – Drop in / Knife Amnesty 12noon – 2pm Moray Place, Dronfield Woodhouse

Sun 19th May Speeding and Parking Patrols Various Locations 

Thur 23rd May –10-12noon Community Market, Farwater Lane – Car Park 

Fri 24th May – Speeding and Parking Patrols, Various Locations 

Fri 31st May – 2-3pm Cuppa with a Copper, The Barn – High Street Dronfield 

"YOU SAID" - “WE DID”

Road Safety - We as a team continue to carry out parking patrols and some of these are conducted jointly with local parking enforcement especially around schools. Park and speeding patrols continue across our area as well as checks been conducted by other Police enforcement departments. 

Rural Crime prevention - Our work continues in relation to delivering more specialised crime prevention information for our seldom rural community. Over the past month our so we have also have done some joint visit with our own Rural Crime team as well. 

Anti Social Behaviour - Our regular patrols continue especially checking locations reported to us by you the community, partner agencies or reports to ourselves. Its important to report ASB and also we as as team are are taking enforcement action when required or working with partner agencies when appropriate. Anti social behaviour can have many forms and we are keen to challenge unwanted behaviour that causes concern to other people in the community. 

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