Neighbourhood Policing
Local policing for local people is Lancashire's approach to tackling crime and reassuring communities.
Lancashire Constabulary is committed to providing you with high quality policing that you can see and easily access in your local area. This means providing you with a neighbourhood policing team that is:
- Dedicated to "getting things done" in your area;
- Visible and easy to contact by phone, through local meetings or through the internet;
- Committed to listening to you to find out what your concerns and priorities are;
- Determined to work with communities and partner organisations to tackle the problems that you identify;
- Responsible for giving you feedback about the things they have done.
We call this neighbourhood policing.
Find your local officer
If you don't want to come to a meeting but would like to talk to your neighbourhood policing team or want to let them know what you think about the problems in the neighbourhood you can contact your local team, which you can find by entering your postcode into the 'My Neighbourhood' panel to the right of this page.
Neighbourhood policing teams
Every neighbourhood has a neighbourhood policing team. You can find out who's on your team by entering your postcode in the 'My Neighbourhood' box on the right of this page.
Some teams cover more than one neighbourhood. The exact make-up up of a team depends on the size of the neighbourhood or how busy it is but may include a combination of:
- Community Beat Managers - police officers who are responsible for tackling crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour in their own patch. Much of their working hours are spend walking their community beat.
- Police Community Support Officers - uniformed police staff who provide community reassurance and tackle anti-social behaviour issues.
- Special Constables - volunteer police officers who have the same powers as regular officers.
- Community volunteers - members of the community who carry out some administrative tasks that help officers spend more time "on the beat".
- Partner organisations - representatives of neighbourhood watch, people who have community safety accreditation, local authorities, housing authorities.
- Response officers - police officers who respond to emergency calls in your area.