Operation Reclaim

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Operation Reclaim is our new focus on Nottingham City Centre, driving out serious and organised crime and tackling the issues affecting you.

From April 2026, we, together with our local partners including Nottingham City Council, the Violence Reduction Unit and the Office for Police and Crime Commissioner, are focusing our attention on different areas of the city.

Operation Reclaim will use the Clear, Hold, Build approach, a framework developed by the Home Office to help police forces tackle serious and organised crime and drive out those who are causing the most harm to our city centre.

It will reclaim and rebuild neighbourhoods affected by organised crime, make areas safer and increases public confidence in the police and partner agencies.

Some of the issues already identified are youth ASB, aggressive begging and rough sleeping, retail crime, illegal e-bikes, drug dealing and knife-related offences.

Together, we will be launching a series of targeted operations and initiatives aimed at making the city centre ‘a no go area’ for criminals to operate and, in turn, make Nottingham a desired place for people to live, work and visit.

We have also launched a survey to find out where residents, students and the business community would like us to focus our attention and only takes a few minutes to complete.

What is Clear, Hold, Build?

Clear, Hold, Build is a three-step plan which sees organised criminals and their associates cleared from an area through relentless pursuit activity.

The area is then held and stabilised through high visibility police patrols, assistance from partner agencies and community support.

With support from key stakeholders, residents will be equipped and empowered to build a strong and resilient community, free from crime and exploitation.

The three-step plan in more detail:

Clear:

Interventions, in form of arrests and relentless disruption, which target organised crime group members, their networks, business interests, criminality and spheres of influence. The police will use all powers and levers to impede their ability to operate. This creates safer spaces to begin restoring community confidence.

Hold:

Interventions, counter measures and contingency plans to consolidate and stabilise the initial clear phase. This stops the remaining or other organised crime group members from capitalising on the vacuum created. It improves community confidence by ensuring spaces remain safe. Visible neighbourhood policing in hotspot areas provides continuing reassurance that police are still present.

Build:

A single, whole-system approach to delivering community-empowered interventions that tackle drivers of crime, exploitation of vulnerable people and geographic places where crime occurs. This improves the living, working and the recreational environment. It empowers our residents to work with stakeholders to generate resilience and build a safer community.