St Andrews St Annes

Update

Police in this area continue to listen and take action to the community's concerns which include Crimes and Anti-Social Behaviour .

Crime
It is pleasing to note that there has been a significant reduction in reported crime this year. With the efforts being made by the community and with the help of all agencies involved, it is hoped that crime will continue to be reduced. However, in the last few weeks there have been a number of house burglaries in the lower end of Greenstead and electrical goods including computers have been stolen. Vehicles in the St Annes area have also been targetted with items including satellite navigation systems being stolen .

Mercedes Sprinter Vans are being targeted by thieves for their catalytic convertors. Whole exhaust systems are being stolen. Owners please take as many security measures as you can. There are products available that secure catalytic convertors and they can be security marked.

Please continue to take extra care regarding the security of your property and don't make your valuables an easy target for thieves .

Anti-Social Behaviour.
Positive steps are being made to put an end to incidents whereby residents are suffering distress caused by others.
To this end, two applications for Anti-Social Behaviour Orders have been made.
One of these was successful and granted to a female residing in the Greenstead area.
The other application was made against a male youth and is still impending.

The area's Policing Team will continue targeting those that are the main offenders and are working closely with members from other agencies to take positive steps to resolve such issues.

A Drugs warrant was issued in St Annes and the findings have been shared to partner agencies. Tenancy enforcement action has been taken by the landlords of the premises and the occupants have been evicted. This was a welcome end to a lot of distress cause to the neighbouring residents. Other tenants at a house on Greenstead were evicted , following complaints of misuse of drugs.
In other matters, legal action has been taken by the local authority against two residents in connection with anti-social behaviour and injunctions were granted by court order .

Police have received a number of reports of off road motorcycles being ridden in a parkland area in St Annes. Two males were later identified and were both issued warnings under Section 59 of the Police Reform Act 2002 which refers to vehicles being used in a manner which causes alarm, distress or annoyance and gives Police a power to seize vehicles being used in such a manner following a series of warnings. Attention by our local Policing Team will continue until this problem is resolved.