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In order to further improve the communication between the police and partners on a strategic level it was felt that there was a need to create a platform to keep our pivotal agencies updated. Therefore, we acknowledge and celebrate the strong partnership between Nottinghamshire Police, Nottingham City Council, and wider partners.
The past year has witnessed a strong collaborative effort, marked in the main by effective communication, shared intelligence, and joint initiatives aimed at enhancing community safety and improving the quality of life for our residents. We are proud of the significant achievements realised through this partnership, including the continued growth of tackling key issues such as serious violence, drugs, acquisitive crime, and antisocial behaviour.
This joint partnership focus has assisted in reducing the impact on the most vulnerable communities and the significant decrease in crime rates across the whole of Nottingham. Building on this solid foundation, we are committed to championing the Chief Constable's Pledge of listening to our communities needs, so we can deliver an outstanding service to all throughout the year and moving forward.
The organisation, and partners, work together to effectively lower crime under each strand, and this will be the overarching theme of our communications strategy. The strategy supports the three core priorities in Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner Gary Godden's Police and Crime Plan for 2024 to 2029 which are:
Tackling anti-social behaviour (ASB) and other issues of community concern;
Tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG);
Tackling knife crime and serious violence.
The City is made up of five different Neighbourhood Policing Areas (NPA): City Centre, City Central, City North, City South, and City West.
Each of these areas has a Neighbourhood Police Inspector (NPI) and they are responsible for crime and antisocial behaviour in their areas.
We have reviewed our neighbourhood policing offer, which has culminated in making changes to improve our coverage by increasing staffing and delivery of service.
The NPA teams across the service consist of Sergeants, Police Constables and PCSOs that make up three teams, providing seven days a week cover on days and afternoon shifts including early intervention for the local area nighttime economy at weekends.
The purpose of the ‘City Neighbourhood Safeguarding and Disruption’ meeting is to facilitate a partnership approach to managing and disrupting risk towards young people involved in or linked to knife crime, serious violence or child criminal exploitation.
The intention is to reduce the risk towards and association with young people through partnership intervention. The NSD meeting seeks to promote the sharing of information and intelligence between Nottinghamshire Police and partner agencies, focusing on risk management by utilising the key areas of safeguarding, intervention and diversion and by ensuring a focus on disruption of adult perpetrators of exploitation.
The meeting is held once a month and attended by key partners including housing, social services, YJS, education and health.
A referral pathway provides a mechanism for young people to be nominated into the meeting by partners for the sharing of concerns, information and the setting of safeguarding actions.
The City ASB car is a dedicated resource available in all City areas funded by Home Office ASB funding. The vehicle is manned six nights a week by Nottingham City Council Community Safety Officers, responding to noise nuisance, youth ASB and street drinking. The scheme is also aimed at increasing uniform visibility to improve trust and confidence in communities where these issues are more prevalent.
Since 1 April 2024 the ASB car has attended 1,798 incidents.
Noise is the main focus for the ASB car, with 53 noise incidents attended from April 2024 to date, marking a 20% increase from the total of the previous year.
Transformational change has taken place as the University of Nottingham and Trent Universities now have dedicated policing teams made up of police officers and PCSOs that work on each respective campus, funded by the academic institutions.
These officers provide much needed support around crime prevention, reporting and taking positive action when required to the 90,000 students who bring an estimated three billion pounds into the local economy.
This group is chaired by the City Centre Chief Inspector and is attended by other agencies such as: 'It’s in Nottingham' (BID), Pubwatch, Violence Reduction Partnership (VRP) and Community Protections who all assist with delivering new and innovative ways to support the four P's Plan: Prepare, Prevent, Protect and Pursue.
There are many initiatives including working with the Prevention Hub on Operation Cognition (early drugs/alcohol intervention), Operation Safe night (tactics around taking early intervention in identifying potential offenders), which supported our positive commitment to Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG), by ensuring partners including Paramedics, St John Ambulance and Street Pastors support the Safe-Space Pledge.
Nottinghamshire Police's strategy to combat VAWG related offenders was praised by Cabinet Secretary Jess Phipps, but it is recognised that further work is to be done in this central area of business. Working together with partners we share the joint vision to provide a multi-agency approach to making the City Centre NTE a safer place to live, work and socialise by reducing alcohol-related crime and disorder, whilst earning the communities trust and confidence. These changes improved our service-delivery and contributed to the nationally recognised ‘Purple Flag’ accreditation ‘outstanding’ in safety, enhancing all stakeholder’s reputation.
The city has a comprehensive four P's Plan (Prepare, Prevent, Protect and Pursue), which is reviewed by using an Action Tracker RAG rating system that tracks our multi-agency approach to reduce threat, risk, and harm, whilst improving public trust and confidence in dealing with knife crime. The organisation, and partners, work together to effectively lower knife crime under each of these strands, and this will be the overarching theme of the communications strategy. The strategy supports the three core priorities in Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner Gary Godden's Police and Crime Plan for 2024 to 2029 which are:
Tackling anti-social behaviour (ASB) and other issues of community concern;
Tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG);
Tackling knife crime and serious violence.
The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed no increase in knife crime, but this data was released in the autumn. It is worth noting that Nottinghamshire Police latest outcomes shows a 10.4% reduction in knife for the city.
Analytical data revealed gaps in our horizon scanning regarding the impending 2025 Knife Crime Strategy (November 2025) review for Urban Street Gangs (USGs) and DV related knife crime. Consequently, we have introduced a Problem-Solving Working Group involving a Problem Orientated Inspector, VRP lead, ASB Specialist, and an analyst to explore evidence-based research to reduce knife crime.
This identified innovative ways, including Knife Crime Prevention Orders, greater utilisation of industry specialists and academics, to providing research around cost effective joined-up solutions for less lethal rounded tipped knives, understating victim demographics, outcomes, and alternative sanctions, which improved efficiency and mitigates risks for VAWG, Urban Street Gangs (USGs) and the Police Race Action Plan (PRAP).
Around enforcement, the City have a dedicated proactive Knife Crime Team who target hotspot locations. These tactics effectively disrupt offenders and reduce threat, risk and harm by supporting the Chief Constable's Pledge of making communities feel safe, whilst delivering an outstanding service we can all be proud of. Following a Sceptre visit (knife crime week of action) by the NPCC and national lead, it was stated that Nottinghamshire Police's four P's Plan to combat knife crime was exceptional and will be cascaded as best practice in the 2025 strategy.
Fighting crime, protecting the vulnerable and improving victim outcomes form part of the Chief Constable's Pledge. Consequently, we are performing well in those areas across the city when pertaining to victim based offences and crimes against society with reductions in knife crime at 10.5%, robbery down 14.1%, assault with injury down 7.8% and wounding or endangering life down 13.5%.
Over the last 12 months we have seen:
5% reduction in all crime;
5% reduction in victim based crime;
6% reduction in theft from motor vehicles;
5% reduction in theft of motor vehicles;
21% reduction in bike theft;
6% reduction in violent crime;
13% reduction in stalking;
7% reduction criminal damage;
3% reduction in street robbery.
Nottinghamshire Police, through our Prevention hub, Neighbourhood and Priority Tasking teams, have worked closely with 'It's in Nottingham' to combat retail crime in the city centre by producing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which demonstrates a partnership mission of combating retail crime by promoting action in training, enforcement and the recovery phase of understanding root cause and funding streams.
Consequently, we have taken the steps, mainly through an aggressive media strategy, of encouraging local businesses to report retail crime as we believe that it is vastly unreported. As we know, there is still a cost of living crisis with many people from varied backgrounds using foodbanks.
It is suggested that this, along with other factors, has contributed to a proliferation in retail crime across the city, and in particular the city centre. Whilst retail crime has increased, we have one of the most impressive detection rates in the county for tackling these offences. It is worth noting that overall theft related offences across the city are down by 16.3%.