Police and Crime Commissioner John Tizard has issued the below in response to Neighbourhood Policing week:

"Neighbourhood policing gives the public confidence in policing. It is core to prevention, problem solving and intelligence gathering.  

"It is about much more than numbers. It is about developing a new approach to local policing, where the police work with local communities and other public professionals, collaborating at a neighbourhood level to set priorities, prevent crime and address wider social problems.

“It is about communities knowing their local police by having named officers in every area of the county and the police knowing them.

“The Safer Streets Mission and Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee reflects my own mission to reinvigorate local policing, and the public will see much more of this in the coming weeks and months as we launch our Safer Streets Summer Initiative”.