Crime has fallen by 10 per cent and at least 90 people have been arrested as part of our #problemsolvingpolicing patrols across Staffordshire.
Officers have been carrying out extra shifts across 19 different locations as part of our strategy to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour affecting local people and businesses.
Since 6 May this year, we’ve put our resources and effort into making sure we tackle the main concerns of local communities, including anti-social behaviour, serious violence and knife crime. Using extensive local crime data in a problem-solving approach, we’ve carefully designed patrol plans for officers to carry out increased visibility and engagement in the areas most affected by crime in Staffordshire.
Here’s the results just under five months later for the areas we’ve targeted:
A ten per cent decrease in overall crime
Knife crime reduction of 26 per cent
A four per cent reduction in serious violence
More than 90 arrests made by officers on targeted patrols
At least 160 stop searches carried out3,900 different engagements recorded with local people
2,700 separate retail engagements recorded
1,400 recorded engagements with licences premises
47 drug seizures
65 vehicle seizures
(Data from 1 May 2025 to 29 September 2025 when compared to the same period last year)
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