Your Neighbourhood Policing Team
Your Neighbourhood Policing Team is a group of local police officers and staff dedicated to serving your community. The team is made up of police officers and a dedicated Police Community Support Officer (PCSO). These are supported by additional officers and staff from the wider area.
We work closely with local authorities, community leaders and residents to decide our policing priorities for your area. This helps us to find useful, long-term solutions to local problems, while maintaining our wider focus on the basics: to fight, prevent and reduce crime, whilst keeping people safe and caring for victims.
If you want to receive regular updates about what we're doing in your area, want to contact us easily with your feedback, or receive alerts about incidents, you can sign up to our community alerts system. You'll receive emails or text messages about the issues you tell us you want to know about.
Priorities
Our priorities
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The town centre Neighbourhood team are committed to robust policing of Oldham Town centre, in particular dealing with offences of shoplifting in all our retail premises, and preventing the theft from person offences such as pickpockets. We are also dedicated to keeping people safe during the night time economy.
Action taken:
Numerous arrests & prosecutions. Over the past 12 months the Town Centre team have arrested over 300 suspects for a variety of offences. The team have one of the highest number of criminal behaviour orders in the Force. There are currently 33 live criminal behaviour orders in place with several more in the process of being applied for.
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Your local neighbourhood officers will be targeting reports of ASB in the area. There are dedicated officers for this during peak times. We will continue to remain visible in the area working alongside partner agencies.
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Your local neighbourhood team will be targeting reports of Anti-social behaviour across the Town Centre area. There are dedicated officers for this during peak times on evenings and weekends. We will continue to remain visible in this area whilst working with our partners to ensure referrals and diversionary work is completed with these individuals at an early stage. The team have been issuing fixed penalty notices for street drinking, breaching the town centre PSPO and have been issuing Community Protection Warnings for anti social behaviour such as aggressive begging.