Summer blitz on town centre crime

Police and Crime Commissioners across England and Wales have developed local action plans to crackdown on crime this summer .

Aim is to support town centres to be vibrant places where people want to live, work and spend time.

From July will see named, contactable officers in every community, increased peak time patrols in town centres and anti-social behaviour leads.

The initiative launches today at an event hosted by the Home Office and the English Football League at Derby County Football Club , attended by partner representatives from police, businesses, local councils and local government.

It will see increased collaborative community-led interventions across sectors such as schemes to keep kids out of trouble during the summer holidays and targeted prevention activity.

The NBCC received 2 million of funding from the Home Office to support police and partners in tackling retail crime.

It has used some of the funding to develop the first national campaign to highlight the amount of work being done to respond to, prevent and detect retail crime offences.

There will also be increased collaborative community led interventions across sectors such as schemes to keep kids out of trouble during the summer holidays .