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Your safer neighbourhood team
Local policing is at the very heart of what we do – we want Lancashire to be a better place to live, work and visit.
We operate across three ‘divisions’ – East, West and South. Each of these divisions has many specialist officers dedicated to keeping you safe including neighbourhood policing teams.
These consist of Neighbourhood Policing Officers, Task Force Officers, including Rural Task Force Officers, and Police Community Support Officers. They work together with colleagues across the force to tackle local policing priorities and keep our communities safe.
Lancashire is committed to neighbourhood policing and the three pillars that underpin it – engagement, problem-solving and targeting activity.
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Crimes and priorities
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Residential Burglaries
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Residential Burglaries have been raised as a key priority in this local area. Burglaries are one of the most intrusive crimes that can happen to a person and it is understandable the massive alarm and distress this can cause a victim of this type of crime.
Lancashire Constabulary currently engage in Operation Defender for every residential burglary that is reported to Police. This involves an officer from the local Neighbourhood Policing Teams revising the victim and offering reassurance and target hardening advice. The officer will also conduct CCTV enquiries in the local area and do house to house enquiries. The local team will also post a message on Lancashire Talking and other social media platforms to make other residents aware or to ask for further information.
Operation Defender is something the local Neighbourhood Teams take very serious. We are pleased to say that For August-October 2026, every victim of a residential burglary recieved a revisit from a member of the local team.
Just this week alone (w/c 02/11/2026) suspects have been arrested because of CCTV that was collected as part of Op-Defender.