Lancashire's police and crime commissioner Andrew Snowden with an update on Operation Centurion
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00:00 Hi, I'm Andrew Snowden, Lancashire's Police and Crime Commissioner, and in this week's video we are beaming to you straight after a fantastic catch-up we've just had on Operation Centurion.
00:10 I'm joined by Inspector Gemma Barr and Assistant Chief Constable Keren Edwards, where we've been going through the performance of the anti-social behaviour hotspot patrolling,
00:20 using that £2 million we secured from the government and the extra money we've leveraged in locally to increase the number of officers out there walking the beat.
00:30 Bob is on the beat constantly, day in, day out, in the anti-social behaviour hotspot areas, a real increase in visible policing presence,
00:39 and actually doing the job of tackling and cracking down anti-social behaviour.
00:44 There's been 14,000 extra hours of policing time spent walking the beat in those hotspot areas.
00:51 That's led to over 100 arrests for neighbourhood crime offences and anti-social behaviour, nearly 100 penalty notices issued,
01:01 over 3,000 stock checks of individuals by officers to have that conversation about why you're here, what are you doing.
01:08 This is, for example, in parks at night or with suspected drug dealing, all those different activities that I know you want to see.
01:16 So thank you to the team that have been coordinating and delivering this across the force, to all of the officers, if you're watching this,
01:22 the hundreds of officers that have taken part in these additional shifts across the force to get Bobbies back on the beat.
01:29 It's working, public confidence is massively increasing in the areas where we have these extra patrols,
01:35 and there's lots more to come announced in the budget last week for next financial year,
01:40 as I launch another series of investments in neighbourhood policing.