A POLICE operation targeting robbery hotspots has slashed muggings of young people by 100 per cent, officers said.
Patrols including stop and search on the Rye, Desborough Road, Eden and a skate park saw robberies fall to zero from 177 last year, they said. Police chose to launch the six-week operation after attacks by mostly Asian and afro-Caribbean gangs on white teenagers last summer, police said.
This was among 12 to 19-year-olds. Operation Gauntlet will run to the end of the school holidays.
Police chose to launch the six-week operation after attacks by mostly Asian and afro-Caribbean gangs on white teenagers last summer, police said.
DC Paul Bowen said: “Officers would still stop large groups regardless of ethnicity but they would have at the back of their mind that the robberies are committed by this group of ethnic minorities.”
About 80 per cent of last year’s robberies were committed by gangs of Asian and afro-Caribbean people, he said.
Of last year’s attacks, 44 included the showing or threat of a knife.
Some 73 were stopped and searched this year. This led to five arrests on drugs charges.
He said: “It is unusual to see so many people involved in a robbery.”
Officers also visited schools before pupils broke up for the summer to mark property so it can be returned to its owner if recovered.
Yet DC Bowen said the operation was not needed all year round as the robberies were common to the summer months. continues here
Patrols including stop and search on the Rye, Desborough Road, Eden and a skate park saw robberies fall to zero from 177 last year, they said. Police chose to launch the six-week operation after attacks by mostly Asian and afro-Caribbean gangs on white teenagers last summer, police said.
This was among 12 to 19-year-olds. Operation Gauntlet will run to the end of the school holidays.
Police chose to launch the six-week operation after attacks by mostly Asian and afro-Caribbean gangs on white teenagers last summer, police said.
DC Paul Bowen said: “Officers would still stop large groups regardless of ethnicity but they would have at the back of their mind that the robberies are committed by this group of ethnic minorities.”
About 80 per cent of last year’s robberies were committed by gangs of Asian and afro-Caribbean people, he said.
Of last year’s attacks, 44 included the showing or threat of a knife.
Some 73 were stopped and searched this year. This led to five arrests on drugs charges.
He said: “It is unusual to see so many people involved in a robbery.”
Officers also visited schools before pupils broke up for the summer to mark property so it can be returned to its owner if recovered.
Yet DC Bowen said the operation was not needed all year round as the robberies were common to the summer months. continues here
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