Crime in Toller, Bradford

Outer City Ward Area

• Drug Dealing/Misuse -Morely Street 
• ASB Vehicles around Victoria Shopping Centre
• Cuckooing  

Thornton & Allerton Ward Area

• Significantly increase Community Alert sign ups across the area, enabling the local Neighbourhood Policing Team to quickly share tailored crime reduction advice, information about events, crime trends and emerging issues, as well as positive outcomes, police activity and contact points. Anyone wishing to sign up but unsure how to do so can contact PC Emily Parkinson at [email protected], who will be happy to assist. 
   
• Increase police presence at primary schools during drop off and pick up times to deter unsafe parking practices and educate students and parents about the reasons behind these measures and the importance of maintaining car free zones around schools.
   
• Reduce acquisitive crime, including burglary, theft from motor vehicles and shed break ins. All reports will be thoroughly investigated, with those responsible identified and arrested where possible. Proactive, overt, and covert officers will be deployed in the area.
   
• Target nuisance off road motorbikes used on roads and green spaces. Officers will take enforcement action under the relevant legislation and seize bikes used antisocially or in breach of documentation requirements.
   

Heaton Ward Area

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• Off Road Bikes (Haworth Road)
  Reports of off-road bikes being used in open spaces around Howarth Road, causing nuisance, safety concerns, and community anxiety.
  
  Reporting:
  Members of the public are encouraged to report off road bike activity via the Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) website contact form.
  
  Action Plan
  • Conduct high visibility patrols in identified hotspot locations
  • Deploy specialist off road bike teams where appropriate
  • Utilise relevant police powers, including: 
    - Section 59 warnings
    - Vehicle seizure, where legislation permits
  • Encourage community engagement, requesting residents to report sightings and provide intelligence relating to off road bike usage.
     
• Heights Lane ASB
  Reports of anti-social behaviour involving vehicles and drug misuse in the Heights Lane area, occurring daily between 18:00 and 00:00 hours.
  
  Action Plan:
  Increase high visibility patrols during identified peak times
  • Gather intelligence relating to involved vehicles, including engagement with local businesses
  • Carry out disruption visits to identified individuals linked to incidents
  • Encourage residents and businesses to report incidents while they are ongoing to support timely police response
     
• Reduce ASB by students, including entering residents’ gardens and causing nuisance before/after school and at lunchtime.
  
  Action Plan:
  • School liaison by PCSO attendance: agree times, codes of conduct, rapid reporting route, and sanctions.
  • Staggered patrols at school start/finish; engagement inputs on respect/public order.
  • Joint warnings (school letters + police ASB warnings) to identified students; involve parents/guardians.
  • Use S35 dispersal if necessary; consider Acceptable Behaviour Contracts (ABCs) for repeat offenders.
  • Environmental design: advise residents on gate/hedge security; request school to supervise egress points.

• Drug Dealing/Misuse – Various locations throughout the Manningham ward. Use of Nitrous Oxide (balloons).
   
• ASB vehicles – Manningham, Lane.
   
• Theft from Motor vehicles/Damage to motor vehicles - area surrounding Valley Parade football ground during match days.

Clayton, Fairweather Green and Lower Grange Ward Areas

• Significantly increase Community Alert sign ups across the area, enabling the local Neighbourhood Policing Team to quickly share tailored crime reduction advice, information about events, crime trends, and emerging issues, as well as positive outcomes, police activity and contact points.
   
• Increase police presence at primary schools during drop off and pick up times to deter unsafe parking practices and educate students and parents about the reasons behind these measures and the importance of maintaining car free zones around schools.
   
• Reduce acquisitive crime, including burglary, theft from motor vehicles and shed break ins. All reports will be thoroughly investigated, with those responsible identified and arrested where possible. Proactive, overt, and covert officers will be deployed in the area.
   
• Enforce speed limits at locations highlighted by the community, with particular focus around The Avenue and Pasture Lane.