Welcome to our neighbourhood policing web site

This site enables you to get to know the people in your local police team and to discover more about policing priorities where you live.

Each neighbourhood beat in Devon and Cornwall is represented on the web site, with details of local officers and staff, news and events, and the key policing issues individual to each area.

This information can easily be found by putting your postcode into the search engine and our neighbourhood policing teams will be updating the site regularly with local news.

Of interest are the policing priorities unique to your area which have been identified through the Partners and Communities Together (PACT) process.

Our neighbourhood teams are listening to your concerns using police surgeries, local meetings, door-to-door enquiries and surveys.

The information you supply, alongside other consultation, allows teams to identify the top three priorities and to form a neighbourhood improvement plan.

We then work with residents and partner agencies, such as the fire service and local councils, to reduce crime and find solutions for these community issues.

Through the PACT process, we have seen a fundamental improvement in our understanding of the needs of the communities of Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly and we hope that you will continue to work together with us.

Our dedicated neighbourhood policing teams are led by police officers but include police community support officers, Special Constables and neighbourhood wardens, working with partner agencies such as Neighbourhood Watch groups.

We know that neighbourhood policing is delivering real and tangible benefits to people’s quality of life and we are committed to making further improvements to our service.

Our focus over the next year will be the delivery of the Policing Pledge to further tailor our policing service to meet the needs of individual communities. This is a national programme of reform setting out minimum standards in 10 areas of policing.

Thank you for visiting this web site. I hope you find your time on this site interesting and informative and we welcome your return to read regular updates from your local neighbourhood team.

Chief Constable Stephen Otter

PACT: Partners And Communities Together

PACT – Stands for Partners And Communities Together. It is a method, which allows the police and their partner agencies to engage with all elements of the community. Through PACT your neighbourhood policing team will identify the issues that effect you. With the community and partner agencies the top three priorities will be agreed, along with how everyone can work together to resolve them. It is important that the priorities chosen are ones that can be achieved.
To find out more about PACT, please visit the PACT information pages...