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  • Expert basketball coaches from Derby Trailblazers and Mansfield Giants will be in Belper every week of the summer holidays providing coaching for young people.
  • Young people can find safe and fun things to do over the summer holidays.
  • People arrested for being drunk and disorderly or an alcohol related public order offence and are issued with a penalty notice for disorder in Derbyshire are now being offered the opportunity to attend a three-hour course about alcohol and its effects.
  • A coating of high-tech grease has been applied to properties in and around Kilburn to reassure residents and help protect them from metal thefts.
  • Notices have been put up in lay-bys alongside the A50 in South Derbyshire to warn lorry drivers that curtain-sided vehicles have been targeted by thieves in the area.
  • A description form created to help residents on a Belper Road provide police with information about incidents has proved so successful that it is now being used elsewhere in Amber Valley.
  • Bodycams bought by Bolsover Community Safety Partnership are being used by police on duty in the district during World Cup games to catch any misbehaviour on evidential quality film.
  • Member organisations of Chesterfield Community Safety Partnership are teaming up for a World Cup Special during half term to remind people of ways to keep themselves and their belongs safe while the forthcoming football matches are played in South Africa.
  • The opening - and painting - of a new youth centre, issuing of penalty notices for dog fouling and littering, a day of sporting activities and confiscation of alcohol from two juveniles are among a wide range of successes achieved during a week of action in Shirebrook.
  • Figures just released show that levels of violent crime in Bolsover continue to fall and there have been significantly less offences over the past 12 months compared with the previous year.
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