By PCSO Steven Kipling

Hi everyone, PCSO Steven Kipling here for your weekly update, hope this finds you all well.
On Wednesday 19th January the local Neighbourhood Team had a visit from our Police and Crime Commissioner, Joy Allen and two of her colleagues. Lots was discussed about moving forwards and how we will work more closely in the future with regards to important issues such as Anti-Social Behaviour, which we know our residents really care about.
On Monday 17th, myself and PCSO Middleton responded to a report of shoplifting in the Town Centre. Within minutes, we located the two suspects who had numerous stolen items on them and detained them. They were then taken back to Newton Aycliffe station by colleagues from Response, where they were interviewed and admitted to six shoplifting offences.
Moving onto youth related Anti-Social Behaviour in and around the town centre, we have identified a number of youths found to be causing ASB around the Leisure Centre, and working together with our partners from the ASB team from Durham County Council these youths will be started on our ASB escalation process, which aims to reduce their offending going forward.
Furthermore, a number of youths were in Court last week, where we submitted an application for a Criminal Behaviour Order for one youth. Another youth was found to have breached his own Criminal Behaviour Order on a number of occasions, this youth now has an electronic tag which means he must stay in their address between the hours of 8pm-7am.
Also, our colleagues on Response executed a warrant on Wednesday 19th at an address in Arncliffe Place, Newton Aycliffe under the Misuse of Drugs Act. A male has been arrested and enquiries are ongoing in relation to this.
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