Stourport

Issue: Theft from retail premises
You said: This is a priority for the next 3 months, based on resident feedback, crime data, and ongoing local concerns.

We will:
- Increase patrols of key areas of concern, including Stourport Town Centre and outlying retail premises
- Conduct police surgeries within the key areas area to encourage reporting and offer reassurance.
- Utilise NHM and other reporting mechanisms to seek public assistance in pursuing offenders.
- Plan and execute targeted operations to tackle shop lifters.
- Deal robustly with people committing shop theft, making use of available legislation to divert and prosecute identified offenders.

Update October 2026
We did:
- A wanted female was located and detained in Stourport-on-Severn on a recall to prison warrant. Further enquiries identified her involvement in several shop theft offences, for which she was subsequently arrested.
- A prolific Stourport Town Centre shoplifter was arrested and remanded in custody on 9th October and sentenced to 6 weeks imprisonment
- High-vis patrols continue in Stourport Town Centre and outlying retails premises.

Issue: Anti-social and misuse of vehicles, including speeding.
You said: This is a priority for the next 3 months, based on resident feedback, crime data, and ongoing local concerns

We will:
-Increase patrols of key areas of concern, including the High Street, Walshes estate, The Pearls and Canal/Riverside.
-Utilise NHM and other reporting mechanisms to seek public assistance in pursuing offenders.
-Plan and execute targeted road safety operations.
-Deal robustly with people committing anti-social behaviour, making use of available legislation to divert and prosecute identified offenders.
-Conduct police surgeries within the key areas area to encourage reporting and offer reassurance.

Update October 2026
We did:
- A vehicle was seized for no insurance on Vale Road.
- Operation Forefront - As a result, one e-scooter and one Sur-Ron motorcycle were seized. Both riders were subsequently reported for relevant driving offences. A drone was deployed and proved to be highly effective in supporting the operation it focussed on various locations across Stourport and the Walshes estate whereby no issues were identified.
- Intelligence was gathered in relation to persons involved in these activities.