Crime in Blakelaw, Newcastle upon Tyne

Your neighbourhood team have used local knowledge and reporting data to identify hotspot areas and increase their visibility at these locations. We continue to work in collaboration with internal and external partners to educate, divert and deter and prosecute offenders. Seizing offending vehicles and having them destroyed. We currently have innovative operations being carried out that make the best use of technology options along with specialist traffic officers in a problem solving approach to dealing with this issue.

The Neighbourhood Policing team together with the Neighbourhood Support Team and High Impact Team continue to tackle this issue through analysing the crimes, crime prevention advice and proactively targeting known and identified offenders. A series of excellent arrests of target offenders at the end of 2025 saw significant reductions in offending. There have been further noteable arrests and prosecutions of target offenders that have seen some receive custodial sentences. However there are still opportunist criminals that go around trying car doors which are often left insecure which account for over 90% of reported vehicle crime. We encourage all residents not to store valuables in vehicles and double check your vehicle is locked.