Over the last month there have been 12 reports of Nuisance Anti-Social Behaviour in the Farington, Farington Moss, St Ambrose and Leyland Town Centre. Most incidents were dealt with by our neighbourhood team and positive outcomes were achieved. 

There have been 11 reports of theft from stores in the area. The police have been working with the victims and working towards positive outcomes.  

We have introduced OP VULTURE. It was created for the reason that of the National Retail Crime Action Plan, which was launched in October 2023. It sets out policing’s commitment to tackling shoplifting and ranking attendance where violence was involved, or a shoplifter was detained. It also acknowledged that, to make improvements, there is a requirement to develop a positive and strong partnership approach between policing and all retailers.

There have been 2 reports of Burglary in the area. On each of these instances the Police Initial Response teams have deployed to coordinate scenes and support the victim. This has been followed up by the Neighbourhood team and OP DEFENDER. 

Op DEFENDER is the force-wide name given to tacking residential burglary (it does not include commercial burglary). Op DEFENDER is built on Op FORAGER – usually once a burglary takes place, another is highly likely within 400m of the targeted address within a two-week period.