Neighbourhood Policing Inspector update - July 2025

Gedling Neighbourhood Policing Inspector Heather Harding 

July 2025 update:

It’s been a little while since my last update so there have been lots of changes within Gedling NPT, one of the biggest is a lovely new base station for the NPT and Response colleagues at the Arnold Civic Centre. We are now settled in and enjoying the new workspace. The shared building has already vastly improved the collaboration with Gedling Borough Council towards problem solving and is set to get even better as time goes on. 

July brings a new quarter and with that a new set of priorities that your NPT team will be focussing on between now and September. Through analysis of crime, consultation with partners in our Multi agency Problem Solving meeting, the PCC crime survey, and feedback from our community, we have identified the following policing priorities for the next three months.

Anti-Social Behaviour:

As we move into the summer months, there have been indications that the level of anti-social behaviour in the borough has increased. Discussions with partners have highlighted the need to have this as a priority to ensure that Police are playing their part in the PCC initiative of keeping our town centres safe. 

The NPT will be working hard to identify repeat offenders of ASB and ensuring that they are dealt with robustly, in collaboration with Gedling Borough Council, various housing associations, and, if relevant, social care and the courts. 

Shop theft:

There continues to be a high level of shop thefts in the borough. The NPT have been developing plans to tackle this and it remains a priority to enable them to continue with their proactive work. 

The NPT teams will be conducting additional patrols, proactive days of action to deter and promote awareness of the problem along with working towards Criminal Behaviour Orders for the most prolific offenders. These orders can include conditions such as banning offenders from carrying bags for life, banning them from certain stores and areas as well as positive conditions such as seeking rehabilitative treatment. Breach of a Criminal Behaviour Order is an arrestable offence and will see the offender put back before the Magistrates Court.

Begging:

This remains a priority to enable to team to continue with the work that they have been doing in the local area, identifying, and warning prolific beggars as well as signposting them to support and considering their welfare needs as well as the impact on the community. There is already an operation in place with a clear escalation process in relation to dealing with beggars, but this will expand to consider cross border offending and more information sharing with partners to find a longer-term solution to the problem.

I am pleased to let you know that we have a new Police Community Support Officer on the Gedling North team – Joanne Orr has joined us and is already getting to know her community by visiting schools and being out on patrol. Please look out for her at community events and come and say hello!

In addition, as of 7th July, there will be a new Gedling NPT Inspector as I am moving onto another role. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time as Gedling Inspector, getting to know the area and the communities within it. Coincidently the new Inspector – Steve King – and I joined the Police together back in 2008 so I know that Gedling will be in safe hands! He will be taking over the monthly updates so you will no doubt be introduced to him properly soon.  

If you would like to speak to the team about problems in your local area then please visit the Nottinghamshire Police website for details of who to contact or keep an eye out on Neighbourhood Alert for your local community engagement events. 

We are continuing to encourage residents to sign up to Neighbourhood Alerts on https://www.nottsalerts.co.uk/ and sign up today – this is a system that will make you aware of local issues and hotspots, as well as community events happening in your local area.