Police: Rutland North Quarterly Priority Update

Dear Rutland North Resident, 

This is a quarterly update on the Rutland North Neighbourhood Priorities.

We have consulted the local community, in person and using the Neighbourhood Link ‘Your Views’ Survey. Thank you to those who have engaged. We have also analysed the crime data and statistics for the beat area over the past 3 months. 

Using all of this information we have formulated the following priorities for the Rutland North beat for October, November and December 2025: 

The top 3 results on the ‘Your Views’ Survey that you have told us that you want us to focus our time and efforts on are; Road Safety, Rural Crime and then, “No Issues”. Looking at the crime statistics though, we still need to focus our efforts on Burglary, so this remains a priority. 

The next nearest topic coming in at 5th place on the survey is “Drug Offences” with a small percentage of you raising this as a concern. Whilst this isn’t going to be 1 of the 3 official local beat priorities for this quarter, your voice has certainly been heard. Please report any suspicious behaviour, and specific information that you may have on who/where might be involved in the use of drugs so that we can target our patrols at the right time in the right places and deal with the offenders. 

You can report this to Police via a number of different ways – phoning 101 in a non-emergency, reporting online via our website here https://www.leics.police.uk/, or anonymously via Crime Stoppers using their website here, https://crimestoppers-uk.org/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=14780356545&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjfvTkdiHkAMVUZZQBh0c1AKJEAAYASAAEgJ73vD_BwE, or phoning Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111. 

Just to clarify the local priorities – these are the things that you want us to focus our time on when we have proactive opportunities. We will always prioritise any crime and investigation with viable reasonable lines of enquiry. 

 So, these are the new priorities, which I'll come to some statistics and data on shortly. 

Interestingly enough though, you also provided answers for - “what is good about the area in which you live? as; low level of crime, neighbourhood cohesion, low levels of anti-social behaviour (ASB), actions taken by the local beat team, as well as engagement with the local beat team, as the top 5 results in that order. 

As the local beat team - firstly thank you and secondly, we would agree with these results - Rutland often has the lowest crime and ASB rate of any UK mainland county, the beat does have low levels of ASB and the neighbourhood cohesion in the community I see on a daily basis is amazing! 

A little insight into the figures on the Rutland North over the past 3 months (July, August, September). 

We have physically attended 79 transport related incidents in this time on the beat, this includes all manner of things including broken down vehicles, road traffic collisions, abandoned vehicles, highway obstructions, reports of manner of driving, dealing proactively with road traffic offences such as no insurance or drink/drug drive, issues with road furniture causing a danger, or debris in the road and more. That is around 30 more than the previous quarter. This is likely down to being the summer months, with more people using our arterial road networks on the beat, travelling through or visiting during the school holidays.  

In the past 3 months, we have had had 5 reports of rural crime related matters, 2 of which were breaks to farms where tools, equipment and a trailer were stolen - these are being investigated by our Rural Policing Team. The slight bit of good news is that we have not received any Rural related crime reported in the past month, however we have seen reports of suspicious behaviour. Thank you for being vigilant and reporting these to us. Please continue to remain vigilant and report incidents and crime to us, via 999 if it is a crime in progress with offenders on scene, thank you.

Lastly, in a 3 month period we have seen 8 reports of burglary, these figures include breaks to commercial non-residential buildings, garden sheds, outbuildings as well as the residential home. 5 of these reports were commercial non-residential buildings, detached garages, or garden sheds. 1 of the remaining 3 was an attempt whereby the offenders were unsuccessful.  

So, I can report that the ‘Your Views’ survey results do largely reflect the crime data over the past 3 months and you all answered highly for Road Safety and Rural Crime. 

I would like to reassure the community that these figures are over a 3 month period for a very large beat area that has around 25 villages and the figures are still lower than other beats in our force area. Of course, we would like to keep it that way, which is why we work so hard to try and do this to protect the county in which we all love to live, work and enjoy. 

Over the past 3 months we have been working hard on the beat priorities. We hope you have been enjoying reading the monthly action updates on the newsletter each and every month. We have been attending road traffic incidents, arresting multiple drivers for drink and drug drive, as well as patrolling and traffic calming in areas required and working with the Road Safety Partnership mobile speed camera van to address speeding concerns in multiple villages, (statistics published monthly on Neighbourhood Link).  

We have also been attending incidents of vehicle and rural crime, as well as burglaries and investigating these incidents, progressing enquiries to identify offenders and bring them to justice. We are also pleased to report that we have recovered lots of stolen equipment and returned it to the rightful owners, from vehicle crime, rural crime and burglaries.  

Crime Prevention Tips: 

Please view the link here for some crime prevention advice in relation to burglary other than dwellings, (outbuildings/sheds/garages/commercial premises). Anything you can do to help us prevent these incidents from taking place, or having evidence (such as CCTV) to help our investigations is appreciated - https://www.leics.police.uk/cp/crime-prevention/protect-home-crime/secure-shed-garage/ 

We have also seen offenders entering properties by other methods when occupants, or the workplace is shut, so please ensure your building alarm is working and you switch it on when you go out - Thank you. 

A couple of other residential burglary crime prevention advice tips - offenders sometimes use a ‘lock snapping’ technique for a burglary, did you know that you can get ‘anti-snap’ locks to protect your home? Find out more information here - https://www.locksmiths.co.uk/faq/lock-snapping/

Although we haven’t seen the technique used for a number of months now – if you have a keyless entry vehicle, please consider acquiring a “RFID Blocker Faraday Pouch” to store your keys in, this blocks the signal the key emits, offenders utilise technology to intercept and boost this signal for their benefit. The “RFID Blocker Faraday Pouch” blocks this signal and helps to prevent and deter the crime. Some offenders can steal keyless entry vehicles using blackmarket technology alone, without accessing the house in order to steal the vehicle from the driveway, so an “RFID Blocker Faraday Pouch” prevents offenders from using this technique. 

Finally – information where you can come and see us and tell us what you think by completing our new survey!

I have published the latest beat surgery/beat engagement and event dates on the Police.UK website here www.police.uk/, please input your postcode to find out the upcoming events in your area and we hope to see you at one of them soon!

The new Leicestershire Police Confidence Survey is now live and will run until the end of October.

It only takes 2 minutes to complete and your feedback will really help us to improve our service to you. Please tell us what you think by clicking on the link below and share this with others:

Please click here to complete the survey

Thank you for reading. 

PC 1049 Jake Spruce

Rutland North Dedicated Neighbourhood Officer