Crime in kippax & methley, leeds

Garforth and Swillington, Kippax, Methley, and Villages Ward Areas

• To address public concerns of youth anti-social behaviour demands, with a particular focus in Allerton Bywater, Micklefield and Community Gardens in Garforth. We will conduct targeted high visibility patrols across demand locations, during peak times identified from call demand analysis and information provided by local communities, to identify those involved in ASB and nuisance motorcycle demands. We will aim to inform, engage, and provide advice for young people so they can make safer choices, whilst signposting and referring young people who need further support, along with taking the relevant enforcement action. 
   
• To target and address multiple road safety concerns including car meets, speeding and parking offences across the ward areas. We will continue to arrange planned operations in line with Fatal4 to address speeding, driving offences, parking offences and car meets in the communities we serve, along with utilising Speed Indication Devices to raise public awareness. We will work alongside the Leeds District Off-Road Bike Team to address reports of nuisance motorcycle demands, with a view to identifying those involved and taking relevant enforcement actions.
   
• To target reports of Theft from shop at the Co-op stores on Main Street, Garforth and High Street, Kippax. We will engage with store management teams and carry out high visibility patrols across the retail premises, with a view to identifying and disrupting those involved in Theft from shop, taking the relevant enforcement action to reduce demands. 
  
   

Temple Newsam and Halton Ward Areas

• To address reports of urban street gangs and organised criminal groups involved in the supply of drugs and serious violence, particularly across the Wykebecks and Halton Moor sections of the ward. 
  As part of Operation Doleedge and Operation Shield, we continue to obtain warrants and bring offenders involved in the supply of drugs and associated criminality to justice. We will maintain our approach and utilise a range of operational tactics to disrupt offending, identify offenders, gather intelligence and work closely with partner agencies, to utilise all enforcement methods at our disposal, signpost and divert young people away from criminality and safeguard vulnerable victims.
   
• To address road safety concerns and road related offences, across the Temple Newsam and Halton ward with a particular focus on Temple Newsam Park and surrounding streets. 
  We continue to proactively deploy in line with Fatal4, to address vehicular nuisance, speeding and driving offences at the affected locations. We continue to work closely with site management teams, to obtain and review CCTV footage, in order to identify offenders and we continue to work closely with Leeds City Anti-Social Behaviour Team, to take enforcement action against those repeatedly involved in the anti-social use of vehicles inclusive of anti-social car meets.
    
• To address anti-social behaviour and Theft offences, across The Springs Retail Park. 
  To achieve this, we will increase our high visibility foot patrols across the site, along with ‘plain clothes’ operations with a view to disrupting and identifying offenders and those involved in anti-social behaviour. We will continue to work with site management, security, and individual businesses to listen and act upon concerns raised and gather evidential materials in order to take any relevant legal and civil enforcement actions. 

Killingbeck and Seacroft Ward Areas

• To proactively address reports of drugs supply across the Seacroft ward and take positive enforcement actions. We will conduct targeted patrols to gather intelligence, and disrupt offenders involved in the supply of drugs. We will seek to obtain warrants and bring offenders involved in the supply of drugs to justice as part of Operation Balletmay, a targeted operation to address street level drug dealing, along with the anti-social and criminal usage of pedal cycles, electric motorbikes, and stolen vehicles.
   
• To seek to reduce the levels of Anti-Social Behaviour and associated criminality, with a specific focus on The Baileys and Barncrofts, Seacroft. We will deploy police resources to conduct targeted, proactive, and preventative patrols, across identified demand locations. We will seek to disrupt and identify those involved in ASB and associated offences, ensuring enforcement action is taken where suspects are identified. We will work in partnership with the relevant Housing providers, Anti-Social Behaviour Teams and Youth Services to address reported demands, take action against those repeatedly identified for causing ASB and will seek to signpost young people into the local provisions available. 
   
• To address reports of Theft and Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) across the Killingbeck Retail Park. We will carry out high visibility patrols across the retail premises, with a view to identifying and disrupting those involved in Theft and ASB, taking the relevant enforcement action to reduce demands.
   

Burmantofts and Richmond Hill Ward Areas

• To address reports of urban street gangs and organised criminal groups involved in serious and organised crime, particularly across the Lincoln Green and Burmantofts section of the ward. We will gather intelligence, identify, disrupt and arrest offenders involved in urban street gangs, organised criminal groups as part of Operation Delldale. We will work collaboratively with partner agencies and third sectors to educate, disrupt, and divert young people away from criminality and ensure vulnerable victims are safeguarded.
   
• To address road related offences across the ward. We will conduct proactive and targeted patrols to address roads related offences across the ward, and will work alongside partner agencies to take all relevant enforcement actions to provide safer roads and streets for all.
   
• To reduce Theft from Shop and incident demand at the One Stop Shop, on Temple View Grove. We will engage with the management and security team at the business premise and conduct targeted disruption and operational patrols in line with identified demand trends to identify and arrest offenders.

Gipton and Harehills Ward Areas

• To address reports and incidents linked to drugs supply, organised criminality, and street drinking, with a particular focus along Harehills Road, the Bayswater’s, and Ashton's in the Harehills section of the ward. As part of the Clear, Hold and Build Home Office initiative, locally named as CommUnity Harehills we will work with the community to develop intelligence and act on reports, and information received. We will hold targeted days of action, multi-agency operations and seek to obtain warrants, to pursue and disrupt offending.
   
• To address road safety matters and environmental concerns, across Gipton and Harehills. We will conduct targeted road safety patrols across the ward, and we will continue to work collaboratively with partner agencies, to conduct further road safety and environmental action operations across the ward.
   
• To address reports of Theft from Shop and reports of begging outside shop entrances, across the Gipton and Harehills ward, with a particularly focus across Coldcotes Circus. We will engage with the management and security teams at the business premises and conduct targeted disruption and operational patrols, in line with identified demand trends to identify, disrupt and arrest offenders. In addition, we will engage with those begging, signpost to relevant support services and take enforcement action against those repeatedly identified as causing a nuisance.