Neighbourhood Policing Teams are led by an Inspector, with a mix of Police Constables, Police Community Support Officers, Special Constables and volunteers who are dedicated to that community.

The Neighbourhood Policing Team works with communities, Local Authorities, businesses, the voluntary sector, and elected members to make their areas better and safer places to live, tackling local issues.

Neighbourhood Inspectors

The Neighbourhood Inspector is there to address community needs and develop strong links in order to ensure that action is taken to deal with local issues.

They are accountable for the performance of the Neighbourhood Policing Team, and the Neighbourhood Communities that sit beneath it.

The Inspector ensures that crimes and incidents are recorded properly and that a problem-solving approach is used. This includes forging strong community links with a citizen focus and a commitment to high-visibility policing. This includes developing community engagement networks, consultation, media liaison and communications.

Neighbourhood Sergeant

The Neighbourhood Sergeant supports the Inspector and supervisors Police Constables, Police Community Support Officers, Special Constables and other members of the Neighbourhood Policing Team, such as volunteers.

They represent the Neighbourhood Policing Team at meetings, ensure that high-visibility activity is undertaken to reassure the community and helps promote the work being done in the area.

They also work with partner agencies to help solve community problems.

Neighbourhood Police Constable

Neighbourhood Police Constables are dedicated officers for a particular community. They keep track of local issues and concerns, including hotspot crime and disorder locations.

They carry out regular high-visibility patrols, form strong links with local community members, representatives and partners, submit community intelligence and attend meetings to discuss local problems.

Neighbourhood Police Community Support Officer

Neighbourhood Police Community Support Officers play a key reassurance role in Neighbourhood Policing. They are a highly-visible presence, patrolling on foot or bicycle, helping to deter criminal and anti-social behaviour. As the eyes and ears they will be central in gathering community intelligence.

Special Constables

Special Constables are volunteers who, after training, have the same powers as regular officers. They can be deployed to neighbourhood areas to deal with a vast range of crime and anti-social behaviour issues. They are a key part of the team through their valuable local knowledge.

Volunteers

Volunteers from the community undertake a range of tasks help complement and support the Neighbourhood Policing Team. These can include contacting victims of crime by telephone to provide reassurance and feedback, maintaining communications links, administration work, undertaking crime prevention leaflet drops and running property-marking services.