Your community policing team
Inspector Ben Hollands has served as a Police Officer for 26 years, gaining extensive experience across a range of roles and ranks at local, regional, and national levels. He currently holds the position of Locality Inspector for Bury St Edmunds, where he leads and manages Community Policing within the area. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing neighbourhood policing teams, building strong partnerships with local stakeholders, and ensuring that policing strategies are responsive to the needs of the community. His work focuses on promoting public safety, reducing crime, and fostering trust between the police and the public.
Sgt Nettleton is one of the Community Policing Team Sgts for Bury St Edmunds, covering Abbeygate, Westgate, Southgate, Minden, Moreton Hall and Eastgate Wards and the villages within Bury Rural South.
PC 484 Manley is the Community Beat Officer for Moreton Hall and Eastgate Ward.
PC 1704 Bond is the Community Beat Officer for Abbeygate and Minden Ward.
PCSO Pooley covers Minden, Westgate, Southgate, Abbeygate, Eastgate and Moreton Hall along with the villages in Bury Rural South.
PCSO Whiting is one of our Bury Town Council funded PCSOs covering Abbeygate Ward.
PCSO Ellis is one of our Bury Town Council funded PCSOs covering the eight town center wards.
PC Carr-Maskell is the Community Beat Officer for Southgate and Westgate Ward.
PC 393 Williams is the Community Beat Officer for Abbeygate Ward and is the retail crime point of contact for the team.
Crimes and priorities
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Priority:
Reducing retail crime. Retain crime remains both a local and national priority.
Action taken:
Bury Community Team have a dedicated retail crime SPOC. The Community Team will visit every victim of retail crime, provide support and guidance in respect to crime prevention and support with digital upload of CCTV. In the months of May and June the community team have had a 60% solvability rate where a positive disposal, such as: charge, conditional caution or community resolution have been administered. We continue to work with partners and local businesses to ensure Bury St Edmunds continues to thrive for local businesses.
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Priority:
Reports of vehicle anti-social behaviour in the Town Centre and Moreton Hall area of Bury St Edmunds.
Action taken:
The Community Team will be completing enforcement action in respect to those who decide to use their vehicles in an anti-social manner, make illegal modifications to their vehicles and drive in a manner than endangers other road users. The Community Team will work with our colleagues in the Road Policing Department and West Suffolk Council in tackling this issue.
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Priority:
Night-time economy Policing continues to be an important role for Policing in ensuring public safety and ensuring early intervention in prevent disorder.
Action taken:
The Community Team, Response Investigation Team and Town Centre Team will be conducting high visibility foot patrols in key areas, such as St Andrews Street, Risbygate Street and The Cornhill on Friday and Saturday nights. They will engage with licensees and door staff to ensure public safety is maximised and take a zero-tolerance approach to violence and disorder.