Honicknowle

Your Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) is a group of local police officers dedicated to serving your community. The team is made up of officers and PCSOs based in your area, supported by additional officers from the wider area.

We work closely with local authorities, community leaders and residents to decide our policing priorities for the area. This helps us to find useful, long-term solutions to local problems, while maintaining our wider focus on reducing crime across Devon and Cornwall.

Please find contact details for your Neighbourhood Policing Team provided below.

Please note that to report a crime or incident to Devon and Cornwall Police, please visit Devon & Cornwall Police or in an emergency, please dial 999.

Adam Carter

Police Sergeant

Jon Manning

Police Inspector

Katie Stanley

Police Community Support Officer

Laura Toms

Police Constable

Local Priority Issues

Priority	Action taken
Nuisance Motorbikes have been highlighted by local residents as an issue in the Honicknowle area. Issued 06 January 2026	The Honicknowle Team will seize and remove any nuisance bikes whether these are motorbikes, Electric bikes or e-scooters off our pavements and roads when they can, if it is an e-bike or scooter as it is not possible to get insurance for privately owned e-scooters/bikes. If it is a Motorcycle, then it may be possible to seize it under other Police Powers. Please understand that we will endeavour to deal with this issue, but we are limited on dealing with some of the bike riders when it comes to a chase due to hazard and public safety. If you use a privately-owned e-scooter/bike in public, you risk the vehicle being seized under S.165 of the Road Traffic Act 1988, for not having any insurance. The Honicknowle Team have also recovered several stolen motor bikes and e-bikes, over the last few months. With your help in reporting these incidents we can continue to remover these bikes from Honicknowle, thereby reducing crime and enhancing safety for everyone. Update 20/03/26 The local team are continuing alongside the response police team to try to target these nuisance bikes. There has been two vehicles seized that were being used in an anti-social manner. We would encourage members of the public to continue to call us regarding these issues. Actioned 06 January 2026
Rise in shoplifting in local shops Issued 06 January 2026	We are taking firm action to reduce shoplifting and anti-social behaviour especially around Tesco Transit Way shopping area and the surrounding shops. Not only does shoplifting cause financial loss to local businesses but also creates stress for staff and customers, impacting the sense of safety in our community. To tackle this, our officers are: Using Criminal Behaviour Orders (CBO’s) to deal with persistent offenders. These are court orders that can ban individuals from certain areas or behaviours, helping to prevent further offences. The Honicknowle Police team work closely with local businesses and are visible each shift in the area. The team aim to share information when appropriate and coordinate responses focusing on key locations where offences are most common. This targeted, partnership-led approach is already making a difference – helping to deter crime and improve safety for everyone. Update: 20/03/26 There has been an increase in police presence in the area in uniform and plain clothes. The CCTV van has been utilised in the area as an overt tool to highlight that the area is being targeted by the local policing team. A number of businesses in the area are in the process of becoming members of the successful PARC system that predominately runs in the city centre, we hope that will become a valuable asset for them. Actioned 06 January 2026

Priority

Action taken

Nuisance Motorbikes have been highlighted by local residents as an issue in the Honicknowle area.

Issued 06 January 2026

The Honicknowle Team will seize and remove any nuisance bikes whether these are motorbikes, Electric bikes or e-scooters off our pavements and roads when they can, if it is an e-bike or scooter as it is not possible to get insurance for privately owned e-scooters/bikes. If it is a Motorcycle, then it may be possible to seize it under other Police Powers.

Please understand that we will endeavour to deal with this issue, but we are limited on dealing with some of the bike riders when it comes to a chase due to hazard and public safety.

If you use a privately-owned e-scooter/bike in public, you risk the vehicle being seized under S.165 of the Road Traffic Act 1988, for not having any insurance.

The Honicknowle Team have also recovered several stolen motor bikes and e-bikes, over the last few months. With your help in reporting these incidents we can continue to remover these bikes from Honicknowle, thereby reducing crime and enhancing safety for everyone.

Update 20/03/26

The local team are continuing alongside the response police team to try to target these nuisance bikes. There has been two vehicles seized that were being used in an anti-social manner. We would encourage members of the public to continue to call us regarding these issues.

Actioned 06 January 2026

Rise in shoplifting in local shops

Issued 06 January 2026

We are taking firm action to reduce shoplifting and anti-social behaviour especially around Tesco Transit Way shopping area and the surrounding shops. Not only does shoplifting cause financial loss to local businesses but also creates stress for staff and customers, impacting the sense of safety in our community.

To tackle this, our officers are:
Using Criminal Behaviour Orders (CBO’s) to deal with persistent offenders. These are court orders that can ban individuals from certain areas or behaviours, helping to prevent further offences.

The Honicknowle Police team work closely with local businesses and are visible each shift in the area. The team aim to share information when appropriate and coordinate responses focusing on key locations where offences are most common. This targeted, partnership-led approach is already making a difference – helping to deter crime and improve safety for everyone.

Update: 20/03/26

There has been an increase in police presence in the area in uniform and plain clothes. The CCTV van has been utilised in the area as an overt tool to highlight that the area is being targeted by the local policing team.
A number of businesses in the area are in the process of becoming members of the successful PARC system that predominately runs in the city centre, we hope that will become a valuable asset for them.

Actioned 06 January 2026

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