Spotlighting the officers responding to your emergency calls

Officers from our local policing teams are often the first police officers you will see if you are in crisis, if you are the victim of or a witness to a crime or if you are suspected of committing a crime.

They are also the officers who may, sadly, deliver bad news to you on what may turn out to be the worst day of your life.

And this week, 24-30 June 2024, across our social media channels, we are highlighting some of the great work the response officers in our local policing teams do to help people, keep you safe and catch criminals. You can also check out #ResponsePolicing.

From burglaries to domestic disputes, from concerns for safety to searching for high-risk missing people, from anti-social behaviour and criminal damage to assaults and dealing with the results of poor & dangerous driving - no two days are the same.

So our local policing officers have a wide range of general policing knowledge and expertise because of this variety. In fact, many of them say this is what attracts them to the job.

Actions and decisions they make impact on any subsequent investigation, whether large or small.

As well as being the first police officers to respond to an incident, our local policing officers will often investigate it, too. But they will also hand some investigations over to specialist detectives in CID, our domestic abuse investigation teams or the Serious Crime Directorate.

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