Crime in Hall Green North, Birmingham

The team have been working with the Birmingham City Council is re-installing CCTV within the Village. After consultation and presentation of evidence the Council have agreed to 5 cameras to be installed. Four of these are likely to be completed in the Summer with the further one planned for next year. This will enable the local Policing Team to view evidence of drug use which will provide evidence for Community Protection Warnings and notices giving the Police the Power of Arrest.

The team have also been contacting local businesses to provide CCTV of drug users and beggars causing Anti-Social Behaviour. This will provide further evidence in the application of Community Protection Warnings/Notices.

Officers continue to patrol the area when and where available, and will utilise stop and search powers when circumstances allow.

If you want to inform the Police anonymously of crime information regarding your community please consider using Crime Stoppers.

www.crimestoppers-uk-org

Please note if needles are noted discarded on the street please contact the local Council to have these removed from the location ( 0121 303 1112, Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm). Please note this is for public spaces not private areas. You can also utilise the Fix My Street website/App to report matters of this nature.

Local residents and Businesses owners have been providing the team with local intelligence of shops where illegal items such as counterfeit, unpaid duty cigarettes/Vapes/tobacco and Nitrous Oxide are being sold from. As per our previous update the team are continuing to apply and action warrants at these premises. Most recently in the past two weeks Officers from the Acocks Green Police Neighbourhood Team completed a warrant at a shop on the Warwick Road within the Acocks Green Village. A number of illegal cigarettes/Vapes/Tobacco have been seized and trading standards have been informed for further work. The team will be conducting another warrant in due course at another location based on the good intelligence provided by our local community.

Please note if used nitrous oxide cannisters are noted discarded on the street please contact the local Council to have these removed from the location (0121 303 1112, Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm). Please note this is for public spaces not private areas. You can also utilise the Fix My Street website/App to report matters of this nature.

If any resident has any information regarding the illegal selling of this drug please report this to your local team (tel - 101, email [email protected]). We will also act on information regarding people using this drug when driving. This is an offence and can be prosecuted.

Members of the local Acocks Green Police Team are patrolling the area within hot spot areas to capture offenders. This is also aided by residents calling the police to report incidents of drug use which can then be checked by available Officers.

Please can we ask that if any parties have CCTV/ring door bell footage of suspicious behaviour including parties trying door handles to send these to our team email account: -

[email protected]

This footage can provide valuable evidence in identifying offenders within the local area. If noted live can you please call the Police for their attendance to capture offenders. If you have any intelligence regarding potential offenders, sites where stolen vehicles may be located and anything of note please again report via policing channels or the crimestoppers website/telephone: -

www.crimestoppers-uk.org
Tel – 0800 555 111

The local Acocks Green Police Neighbourhood Team will be soon organising local property marking events tailored to specific crime types including vehicle crime. Please keep an eye on our meetings and events on this website for dates once established.

The Team is also reviewing all evidence and intelligence from the crimes and are conducting house to house where applicable for further CCTV opportunities. We are working with inter-departmental teams including Offender Management to identify offenders in the local community.