Welcome to the NPIA's Neighbourhood Policing website.

Neighbourhood policing teams are also known by other names according to the area in which you live. For example, in some areas they are referred to as Safer Neighbourhoods teams or Safer Stronger Communities teams. They are all working with local people and partners to deliver solutions to issues which people say make them feel unsafe in their neighbourhood. These can include crime, anti-social behaviour, disorder, speeding and environmental issues such as street lighting.

This website provides access to the 3,600 Neighbourhood Policing teams which are now in every community in England and Wales.

To find details of your local team and find out more about the work they are doing in your area, type your postcode below or click on your local area on the map...

The NPIA Neighbourhood Policing Programme is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
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What is Neighbourhood Policing?

NPIA PCSO Review announced

Since their introduction in 2002, Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) have played a critical role in the successful delivery of Neighbourhood Policing.

A PCSO review has now been published, accompanied by a letter from Citizen Focus and Neighbourhood Policing Programme Director, ACC Steve Mortimore (to see the letter please click here). Its recommendations will help to show how PCSOs are indispensable to Neighbourhood Policing Teams, and firmly establish them as a unique and valuable addition to the policing family. To see the review click here...

Neighbourhood Policing is provided by teams of police officers and Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs), often together with Special Constables, local authority wardens, volunteers and partners.

In some areas, Neighbourhood Policing may be known as Safer Neighbourhoods or another locally decided name.

It aims to provide people who live or work in a neighbourhood with:

• Access - to local policing services through a named point of contact

• Influence - over policing priorities in their neighbourhood

• Interventions - joint action with partners & the public

• Answers - sustainable solutions & feedback on what is being done

This means that neighbourhood teams:

• publicise how to get in touch with them
• find out what the local issues are that make people feel unsafe in their neighbourhood and ask them to put them in order of priority
• decide with partners and local people what should be done to deal with those priorities and work with them to deliver the solutions
• let people know what is being done and find out if they are satisfied with the results.

There are Neighbourhood Policing Teams working in areas all over England and Wales.

The way that Neighbourhood Policing is delivered will vary in different areas, as it is designed to be flexible and responsive to local needs and resources.




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