Higher Blackley

Inspector Derek Quinn

Neighbourhood Inspector | Cheetham, Crumpsall & Higher Blackley

I have served with Greater Manchester Police for over 25 years, beginning my policing career as a Special Constable in Stockport in 2001 before joining as a regular police officer in 2003.

Throughout my career I have worked across a variety of operational and neighbourhood policing roles, including as a Response Officer in North Manchester, a Response Sergeant in Tameside and Bury, and a Neighbourhood Sergeant in Prestwich. I was promoted to Inspector in 2021.

For the past 12 months, I have held the role of Neighbourhood Inspector for Cheetham, Crumpsall and Higher Blackley. It is a diverse and vibrant area that presents unique policing challenges, and I am passionate about working alongside partners and local communities to address issues that matter most to residents.

I am proud to lead a dedicated and professional neighbourhood policing team that works tirelessly to tackle crime, protect vulnerable people and help keep our communities safe.

Neighbourhood Sergeant 17919 BOYD – Blackley/Higher Blackley

I have served with Greater Manchester Police for 8 years and currently work as the Neighbourhood Sergeant for Blackley/Higher Blackley. My role involves working with residents, local businesses and partner agencies to address crime, anti-social behaviour and other issues affecting the local community.

My current priorities include tackling the use of off road bikes, reducing anti-social behaviour and improving community confidence through visible neighbourhood policing. I regularly attend engagement events and community meetings and work closely with partner organisations to identify and resolve local issues.

I encourage residents to speak with me at local events and share any concerns so we can work together to improve the area.

PCSO Gary Lill
Neighbourhood Police Community Support Officer
I have served with Greater Manchester police for 19 years and currently work on the Neighbourhood Policing team, covering the Higher Blackley area.
The role I do involves engaging with the residents and setting up community meetings in the local area, whereby we discuss with the local community and other partner agency’s the issues in the area and if they have any feedback from them from a policing point of view. The main priorities in the area are Off road Motorbikes; Theft of motor vehicles and Residential burglaries . These are all being looked at with the help of partner agencies so we can reduce the issues.

I am pcos Carla Doran I work form Central Park Police Sation. The area I patrol is Higher Blackley
I have been a pcos in north Manchester for 18yrs.
My main role is providing high visibility patrol around higher Blackey. Priorities are asb burglaries.
Attending community groups to speak to local residents and finding out what their priorities are for us.
PCSO Carla Doran
Higher Blackley Crumpsall
I have served at Greater Manchester Police as PCSO for 18yrs and currently work for the Higher Blackley community. My role is to work closely with residents and local businesses, and partner agencies. To help improves address local concerns. To improve community safety.
I also attend local community groups to speak to local residents about the issues that matter to them.
I have been a pcso in north Manchester for 18yrs, my role is to tackle and reduces asb.
and to work with all the community to tackle any issues in the area. To make the community feel safe in their neighbourhood.

I have served with Greater Manchester Police for 6.5 years and currently work as the neighbourhood officer for Higher Blackley. My role is to work closely with residents, businesses, and partner agencies to address local concerns and improve community safety.

My current focus includes anti-social behaviour, illegal E-bikes/Surrons, drug dealing in the community and supporting long-term problem solving within the community. The PCSO’s regularly attend neighbourhood engagement events and work with local partners to tackle the issues that matter most to residents and relay the information to me so that I can act on the issues raised.

I encourage members of the community to attend local meetings and share their concerns so that together we can help make our neighbourhood a safer place to live, work and visit.