Exeter Neighbourhood team are focused on nine priorities, namely: Engagement, Shop theft, Counter Drugs, Serious and Organised Crime, Evening and Night Time Economy, Violence Against Women and Girls, Violence, Anti-Social Behaviour in the residential areas and Anti-Social Behaviour in the city centre.


Our Strategy:

• Places – reclaim contested spaces, this could be a bench or a street,
• Partnerships – create local networks to involve statutory partners, business, residents, charities and initiatives
• People – marginalise perpetrators behaviour, which seeks to understand individuals and address behaviours.

Issued 01 July 2025

No action

Operation Tarak: Tackling 'County Lines' drug crime in Exeter.

The neighbourhood team are involved in Operation Tarak, a significant police effort to disrupt so called ‘County lines’ (the importation of Class A drugs into the city by Organised Crime Gangs, from larger cities in the UK) and the crime and disorder this creates.
Our activity, in partnership with other agencies and based on current intelligence, focuses on:

• Patrolling the worst affected areas
• Visiting vulnerable people at risk of being ‘cuckooed’ (individuals whose properties are taken over by drug gangs)
• Stopping and searching drug dealers
• Preventing young people from being used as dealers through education and diversion.
• Gathering as much information/intelligence as possible to achieve the aims above.

Issued 01 July 2025

No action

Pro-actively working with partner agencies/community to deal with Anti-Social Behaviour
Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) causes significant distress and we prioritise dealing with it as swiftly as possible.
Such behaviour includes intimidation, abusive language and public alcohol & drug use.


Our activity:

• Seizing alcohol and drugs
• Using stop and search powers
• Dispersing problem groups
• Arresting offenders
• Using ASB escalation powers (in conjunction with partners), to place offenders on court orders.
• Operation Protractor refers to a specific operation to prevent Youth ASB across Exeter. This is in response to a trend seen in other UK towns and cities (involving groups of youths and youth gangs)

Issued 01 July 2025

No action