Crime in Brambles & Thorntree, Middlesbrough

South Bank: The Greater Eston teams continue to focus on the prevention, identification and arrest of individuals using off‑road bikes illegally.

Targeted operations, including Operation Endurance and Operation Checkpoint, have resulted in the removal of quad bikes and other off‑road motorcycles. Community intelligence and technology also enabled the recovery of a stolen catering trailer, which had been taken using quad bikes.

The Greater Eston Inspector continues to chair partnership meetings dedicated to tackling ORB‑related issues. As a result, rock armour has been installed in key areas to prevent quad bikes from accessing footpaths and green spaces, helping to reduce associated ASB.

Working closely with the community provides the best intelligence on where this activity is taking place. We will continue to disrupt, deter and remove off‑road bikes and quads from our streets.

South Bank: During community meetings, officers listen to public concerns and develop dedicated patrol plans aimed at disrupting the supply of drugs within the ward. We rely heavily on information from the public, which is always treated with the strictest confidentiality and shared only with trusted partners.

We continue to disrupt the use of Surron electric bikes, which are frequently used in the distribution of drugs. We welcome all reports of drug dealing— including anonymous information— as this greatly assists our efforts to tackle drug‑related crime within the community.

South Bank: The Greater Eston Neighbourhood Team remains committed to reducing ASB across the ward. Working alongside our partners, we continue to implement effective measures to address and prevent disorder.

A problem‑solving plan is in place for Low Grange Retail Park (McDonald’s, Tesco and Aldi), which has contributed to a reduction in ASB in the area. Over the past three months, PCSOs have issued AS13 warnings to individuals involved in anti‑social behaviour.

Regular high‑visibility patrols are carried out across the ward to deter ASB and reassure the public. School visits have also taken place, helping pupils build trust with officers and understand the role of policing in their community.

We will continue to work with partners to highlight the consequences of ASB, including the potential impact on an individual’s residential status. Community intelligence has been crucial in identifying those responsible for ASB and drug‑related activity. We have targeted specific individuals and are progressing an additional Criminal Behaviour Order against a persistent offender.

A knife amnesty was recently held at Golden Boy Green, supporting our ongoing efforts to reduce knife crime.

The local teams have and will continue to focus on prevention, identification and the arrest of persons using off road bikes (ORB.) We are using the tools available to us to carry out our mission to disrupt the minority of individuals who choose to continue to disrupt the community. The Greater Eston Inspector continues to hold and chair partnership meetings specifically about the use of ORBs being used in the community. We rely on information from the public to inform us where this is occurring so we can act on that information. I urge the community to provide information; it will be held in confidence and never shared outside the police environment.
We are running specific operations and have successfully removed quads and bikes from various locations due to support from the community. We have used the intelligence you provide to help us identify individuals and locations where we have been able to arrest several offenders with stolen motorcycles and remove them from your roads. We are working closely with partners to achieve evidence to support civil orders such as criminal behaviour orders to use against those who use off road bikes. The bikes seized from individuals have been destroyed meaning that they are unable to continue to use them in the community. We will continue to monitor and remove any further bikes they make attempts to replace them with. We have dedicated and monitored patrol routes during our operations. Our focus will continue to build our intelligence identifying locations to target unlawful off road bike owners. We are looking at new tactics soon to tackle off road motor bikes so we can hopefully have more success moving forward as technology improves.

The Neighbourhood Police Teams continue to tackle antisocial behaviour, particularly around business retail outlets. These areas still have dedicated additional patrol plans to disrupt those who cause our community to feel harassed or unsafe in their local area. We are working with our partners to ensure that the local minority of people who are causing this ASB are held to account with the local council Streetz team. As a result, we have successfully issued a number of community protection warning and notices to individuals in partnership with Redcar and Cleveland Council. We also continue to target those who are involved in the receipt of drugs through using the mail system. These drugs are regularly intercepted, the individuals who have received packages are currently in danger of losing their home through residential closures (working jointly with the council). If you are dealing drugs or involved in the supply, you are likely to lose your home in the process. We have seen a huge reduction of late which demonstrates the tactic is working. This means that there will be disruptions in the drug supply to the area to make the community a better place for residents.
During the last 3 months, the ward PCSO’s continue to issue AS13 warnings for antisocial behaviour and, with the ASB officer from the council, to deliver antisocial behaviour agreements to monitor and hold the individuals accountable. We will continue to work with partners to highlight the consequences of their actions and the impact this could have on their residential status within the community to deter their mission of causing disruption.
This has only been achievable through your information as a community, and we will be continuing to patrol these areas and act on your intelligence with regards to where the ASB/drug dealing is occurring. We have targeted this around specific individuals and we have applied for (and are likely to achieve) a further criminal behaviour order for an individual who is causing antisocial behaviour within the community.