Cllr Roy Gerstner – Community Activist

A few months ago, you may have helped us form the priorities for our neighbourhood policing teams across Fenland.

By using a combination of views and feedback from the local community and our own data (from recorded crime), we set the below as the top three things your local neighbourhood policing team across March are prioritising this winter, in addition to the ongoing
force-wide priorities.

Priorities for the March team are:

(Covering March, Wimblington, Doddington, Benwick, Chatteris, Pondersbridge, Whittlesey, Coates, Turves, Manea)

• Drug use and dealing across March, Whittlesey and Chatteris
• Illegal parking in Whittlesey
• Speeding in rural parishes (Benwick, Eastrea, Coates, Turves, Wimblington, Doddington, Manea)

While we continue to focus on these areas, we are starting to collate data to inform what the next round of priorities will be going into spring (April to June 2023).

Again, please spare five minutes to complete this short survey to help shape policing in this area.
Kind regards,

Please find below summaries of the latest news from our courts over the last week – click on each headline to read the full story.

Cambridgeshire

 Prolific thief jailed for more than a year

Three fined for Extinction Rebellion protest

Life sentence for man who stabbed victim in neck

Three drug dealers sentenced

Drink driver disqualified for two years

Man drove around Cambridgeshire dealing cocaine
Class A drug dealer caught by neighbourhood officers

Peterborough

Burglar stole more than £10,000 worth of renovation materials

Judge tells drug dealer “your future is in your own hands”

Man jailed for sex attack more than 20 years ago

Man who claimed he “accidentally shot” drug dealer found guilty of murder

Drug dealer caught with crack cocaine, heroin and nitrous oxide

Man jailed for assaulting partner

Fenland

Dealer hid drugs in boat

 Paedophile sentenced to eight years in jail

Drink-driver jailed after causing fatal crash

You can find more news from the force online here.

Police and Crime Commissioner Darryl Preston is warning people to stay alert to dating scammers after new figures revealed romance fraud had cost victims more than £100k across the county – in just one month.

Speaking ahead of Valentine’s Day, Darryl said in January 2023 alone, 11 romance frauds had been reported in the county totalling a loss of some £104,850. 

This is even higher than December’s figures which saw eight romance frauds reported, amounting to losses of almost £85,500.

You can read more here:  The Police & Crime Commissioner for Cambridgeshire | PCC issues Valentine’s Day scam warning after romance fraudsters con daters out of £100k in one month (cambridgeshire-pcc.gov.uk).

The Commissioner also has a new monthly newsletter where you can sign up to find out more about what he is doing to keep communities safe. 

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