Local teams: South of England - Essex | British Transport Police

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Welcome to your local neighbourhood policing team page for Essex.

We cover Alresford, Braintree, Braintree Freeposrt, Bures, Bury St Edmunbds, Chappel & Wakes Colne, Chelmsford, Clacton on Sea, Colchester, Colchester Town, Cressing, Darsham, Derby Road, Dovercourt, Elmswell, Felixstowe, Frinton on Sea, Great Bentley, Harwich International, Harwich Town, Hartfield Peveral, Hythe, Ingatestone, Ipswich, Kelvedone, Kirby Cross, Manningtree, Marks Tey, Melton, Mistley, Needham Market, Saxmundham, Stowmarket, Sudbury, Thorpe Le Soken, Thurston, Trimley, Walton on the Naze, Weeley, Westerfield, White Notley, Wickham Market, Witham, Wivenhoe, Woodbridge and Wrabness.

Here you will find out about up and coming events, meet your local officers and keep in touch with them via social media.

If you need to report a crime, please call 0800 40 50 40 or text 61016.

Find out what's happening in your area

Keep up to date with all the latest news in your area, find out about events and get to know your local officers through our Twitter account.

Our priorities

Joint working with industry to prevent violent crime and public order.
Work with industry to prevent physiacl assaults and threats against rail staff to deliver successful prosecution, whilst also providing a high standard of support for victims.
Increase communication from BTP to stakeholders, in relation to staff assaults and violent crime.
Joint working with industry to reduce graffiti murals, and bring offenders to jutice.
Preventing serous violent crime by keeping knives and weapons off the network.
Improving staff and customer confidence by tackling the issue/time/location of most concern.
Improving reliability through faster incident responce and fatality handback times and preventative action to tackle incidents such as trespass, criminal damage and suicide.
Tackling theft of passenger property through a multi-agency problem-solving approach.
Tackling sexual offences and harassment by improving victim confidence to report and tackling predatory behaviour/serial offenders.
Tackling hate crime and supporting those that feel vulnerable to victimisation.