Neighbourhood policing
We are committed to providing an outstanding service to the public of York and North Yorkshire, to keep you safe and feeling safe. As part of that commitment we aim to have a strong presence in our neighbourhoods and communities. It helps us to understand and be responsive to community needs.
Our neighbourhood teams are made up of Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) and police officers. PCSOs are uniformed members of police staff and are key to fostering good community relations. They patrol their local area and deal with minor incidents and antisocial behaviour and support police officers in enforcing the law. They are very much focused on crime prevention activities.
You can now see what our policing priorities are for your area here on our website. You can find your local officer, get the latest crime statistics and advice and find out what we are doing to tackle crime in your area. We also have a live chat facility.
If you want to stay up to date with advice and policing activities and drop in sessions in your area you can also sign up to North Yorkshire Community Messaging.
Meet your local team
Our neighbourhood policing leads
We have refreshed our cohort of Neighbourhood Inspectors, these are the 11 officers who are responsible for leading our programme of neighbourhood engagement.
- Inspector Emma Collins - Eastfield, Filey and Rural Scarborough
- Inspector Greg Davies - Harrogate Inner
- Inspector Nick Plumb - York Outer
- Inspector Ciaran Conlon - Richmond
- Inspector Craig Regan - Scarborough North, South and Town
- Inspector Holly Nicholls - Knaresborough, Boroughbridge and Ripon
- Inspector Jen Stockwell - York Inner (transferring shortly from Metropolitan Police)
- Inspector Martin Dennison - Malton
- Inspector Paul Crabtree - Skipton
- Inspector Rob Campbell - Selby
- Inspector Rory Sadler - Hambleton (transferring shortly from Cleveland Police)
Your priorities
In summer 2024 we asked the public to prioritise a list of activities that captured the core tasks of neighbourhood policing. Over 5,500 responses were received.
The public survey was part of a nine-month project which the force undertook to better understand the demands on its neighbourhood teams across the county and city of York. We wanted to check the numbers of officers and Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) needed to provide outstanding neighbourhood policing for our communities – within our budget constraints.
As well as the survey, we carried out a time and motion study to establish the frequency, volume and duration of the tasks being undertaken and the number of officers and PCSOs needed. We reviewed all the activities that our neighbourhood teams get involved with as well as reviewing the crime profile across the county. All this information helped us to assess where our officers and PCSOs are best placed to deal with threat, harm and risk to our local communities.
So what were the neighbourhood policing priorities of the public?
High visibility patrols ranked as the number one priority for the public. Arresting key neighbourhood crime offenders was the second highest ranked activity and tackling organised crime groups was third.
Just as we were completing our neighbourhood policing review, we received confirmation of additional government funding to support their Safer Streets mission. The government has provided an additional £1.9m which is prioritised for spending on neighbourhood policing.
We are adjusting the mix of PCSOs and police officers in line with the public’s prioritisation of the activities they most value our neighbourhood teams getting involved with. We will have 112 officers and 122 PCSOs by March 2026, that is an uplift of 32 officers and 20 PCSOs.
The assigned members of each team will be named and contactable via details published on our force website. There will be a 72-hour turnaround for any enquiries submitted to our neighbourhood teams.
Each team will develop clear priorities based on what matters to their local community and provide updates and good news on developments and operational successes.
In 2024/25 we reduced antisocial behaviour by nearly 15%, total crime was reduced by 5.8% and house burglary was down by 9%. But we are far from complacent. We know how important it is for every single person living, work and visiting our great county to be able to place their trust in North Yorkshire Police in the knowledge that we are on their side and will tackle criminality wherever it exists in our county.
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