Tyseley & Hay Mills Crime Intelligence

We are still conducting Business Watch meetings at two key locations of the Yew Tree and Swan Shopping centre. This is now being progressed with other businesses in the area. By businesses attending, this they will be given a voice to be heard about the ongoing issues in the area and any harm impacting their business and to enforce where necessary and work as a collective to reduce the demand in the area. We are currently in the progress of setting up an information sharing agreement with businesses to assist us with investigations becoming more effective and deter any prolific offenders from the locations.

Vehicle crime is a concern of many in the community, and this can be from parking, anti-social use of a vehicle, speeding, cannibalising, theft of and from a motor vehicle. Patrols are being conducted to those hot spot areas, and this is being monitored by ourselves and Parking enforcement these results are being shared with our WMNow. We are seizing vehicles for various reasons, whether this be used in crime, no tax, abandoned, no insurance, stolen and amongst many other reasons. We will continue to work on this and are currently monitoring anyone involved in this crime and we will conduct visits and monitor their behaviour and liaise with other partner agencies to assist us in tackling this. More arrests are being conducted on those involved in vehicle crime. We are requesting for specialised units to assist in reducing vehicle related crime.

We know we have a long way to go with building trust in the community but, we need you, your eyes, and ears to let us know what is happening in the area to support and report anything to us. We will reach out to local authorities and other partner agencies to assist us in tackling any consistent issues that is happening, with setting up meetings and community meetings. We will be transparent in any results or findings we have and provide updated to those that report to us. This can be done by emailing the team with information and intelligence or call this in via our 101 or live chat.

There have reports coming into us regarding those under 25 attending to blocks of flats in the area and are causing ASB. We are doing everything we can with identifying these individuals involved and should we encounter those. We will then use the appropriate powers to support in reducing this and issue ASB and CPWs where possible and conduct home visits to reduce this.

There have reports coming into us regarding individuals attending to the roads in vehicles causing various types of ASB. Due to the concerns we conducted a Meeting with Residents on 27th March 26 at Scouts Hut to understand the full scale of the issues. Since this, officers has conducted patrols and seized vehicles were possible and other partner agencies have been sought upon to conduct patrols and investigations where possible.
We are doing everything we can with identifying these individuals involved and should we encounter those. We will then use the appropriate powers to support in reducing this and issue ASB and CPWs where possible.