Plymouth City Centre

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.

Plymouth City Centre & Waterfront Neighbourhood Team

Rebecca Adam

Police Constable

Daniel Avery

Police Constable

Greg Bridgett

Police Inspector

Mike Brumpton

Police Community Support Officer

Megan Davis-Butler

Police Sergeant

Stephen Dykes

Police Sergeant

Sarah Evans

Police Constable

Beth Kelland

Police Community Support Officer

Katie Mole

Police Community Support Officer

Jessie Rapson-Blackler

Police Constable

Mike Smith

Police Constable

Kyle Stimpson

Police Community Support Officer

Local Priority Issues

Priority	Action taken
1. Focusing on reducing Anti-social behaviour in the City Centre of Plymouth to reduce the impact on local businesses particularly in the Old Town Street and New George Street area. Maintain high visibility patrols in the City Centre as well as joint partnership working to reduce the overall anti-social behaviour thus making the City Centre a safer place for our community. Issued 01 April 2026	High visibility patrols in and around the City Centre and Waterfront area by the local neighbourhood team. On top of this we will also have hotspot patrols within the City Centre. This is in addition to the local team on duty. Local LST teams will also patrol key times in evenings. Key individuals who are causing significant ASB will be identified and dealt with robustly utilising Community Protection Warnings and Notices, as well as Criminal Behaviour Orders. Likewise Anti-Social Behaviour escalation processes to be utilised Local meetings with business partners and premises to address ASB issues and other partnership agencies. Actioned 30 April 2026
2. Anti-Social Driving by motor vehicles and E-BIKES in the City Centre and Hoe area- seeking to reduce the environmental impact of this on the community. Issued 01 April 2026	Targeted days of action to address anti-social driving alongside local traffic resources and council. Utilisation of Section 59 warning notices against repeat offenders. Actioned 30 April 2026
3. Violence Against Women and Girls, Evening and Nightime Economy/Licensing • Increase police visibility in the evening and night time economy (ENTE) - early evening engagement Friday and Saturday evenings by Neighbourhood Officers. • Improve engagement with licensed premises to develop intelligence and partnership working • Continue our partnership work around Project NightEye based intelligence, with early use of civil orders or Sexual Risk Orders. This targets our most prolific offenders within the night-time economy area. Issued 01 April 2026	Each Friday and Saturday evening, we stand up our Nightime Economy Policing Operation with officers deployed on foot at key locations. This includes the Barbican and City Centre area. Plain clothes operations to identify those targeting women and partnership working and utilisation of civil orders to reduce incidents Actioned 30 April 2026

Priority

Action taken

1. Focusing on reducing Anti-social behaviour in the City Centre of Plymouth to reduce the impact on local businesses particularly in the Old Town Street and New George Street area. Maintain high visibility patrols in the City Centre as well as joint partnership working to reduce the overall anti-social behaviour thus making the City Centre a safer place for our community.

Issued 01 April 2026

High visibility patrols in and around the City Centre and Waterfront area by the local neighbourhood team. On top of this we will also have hotspot patrols within the City Centre. This is in addition to the local team on duty. Local LST teams will also patrol key times in evenings.

Key individuals who are causing significant ASB will be identified and dealt with robustly utilising Community Protection Warnings and Notices, as well as Criminal Behaviour Orders. Likewise Anti-Social Behaviour escalation processes to be utilised

Local meetings with business partners and premises to address ASB issues and other partnership agencies.

Actioned 30 April 2026

2. Anti-Social Driving by motor vehicles and E-BIKES in the City Centre and Hoe area- seeking to reduce the environmental impact of this on the community.

Issued 01 April 2026

Targeted days of action to address anti-social driving alongside local traffic resources and council. Utilisation of Section 59 warning notices against repeat offenders.

Actioned 30 April 2026

3. Violence Against Women and Girls, Evening and Nightime Economy/Licensing

• Increase police visibility in the evening and night time economy (ENTE) - early evening engagement Friday and Saturday evenings by Neighbourhood Officers.
• Improve engagement with licensed premises to develop intelligence and partnership working
• Continue our partnership work around Project NightEye based intelligence, with early use of civil orders or Sexual Risk Orders. This targets our most prolific offenders within the night-time economy area.

Issued 01 April 2026

Each Friday and Saturday evening, we stand up our Nightime Economy Policing Operation with officers deployed on foot at key locations. This includes the Barbican and City Centre area.

Plain clothes operations to identify those targeting women and partnership working and utilisation of civil orders to reduce incidents

Actioned 30 April 2026

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