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A neighbourhood policing team (NPT), also sometimes known as safer neighbourhood team (SNT), [1] [2] is a small team of police officers and police community support officers (usually 3-10 strong) who are dedicated to policing a certain community or area. [3] It is a concept developed by the police of the United Kingdom.
A Neighbourhood Action Group, or NAG, is a UK initiative, set up to deal with key issues identified by a community's first public consultation. The group is coordinated by the police . This may happen in the form of a public meeting, through surveys done face-to-face or by mail, or a combination of methods.
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Recorded crime rose by almost a third in the three years to 2018, but charges or summons dropped by 26%, and arrests also fell. Neighbourhood policing capacity has fallen on average by at least a fifth since 2010. Neighbourhood policing is important in dealing with terrorism and gang crime, especially in communities where the police are distrusted.
Neighbourhood Watch in the United Kingdom is the largest voluntary crime prevention movement covering England and Wales with upwards of 2.3 million household members. The charity brings neighbours together to create strong, friendly and active communities in which crime can be tackled.
[1] The concept was created to aid a policing approach being trialled in the early 2000s by Surrey Police called reassurance policing, which aims to identify "signals", and involve the community in solving community-related problems and is the ascendent to the current 'neighbourhood policing' approach in England and Wales.
Since 1 April 2007, however special constables of England and Wales have full police powers throughout those two countries. This means that, in contrast to most countries, all UK volunteer police officers now have exactly the same powers as their full-time colleagues.
The UK government came under fire from many leading media organisations within the country after it was revealed that the advertising campaign to educate the public about The Policing Pledge cost the tax payer £3.5 million in the form of posters, newspaper spreads, leaflets, website production and the addition of two thirty second television adverts which were set to air during peak hours.