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Give 'em a taste of their own medicine - that might as well be the motto of Operation Leopard, a new approach to policing adopted in the town of Pitsea in southeast England earlier this year. Local residents had complained of their deteriorating quality of life as reports poured in of...
The operation has certainly been a roaring success in the town of 25,000. On a housing estate that usually reported five crimes a day, none were reported during a week-long trial run, prompting a local homeowners' association to raise $26,000 to help fund the operation for the...
But on the night TIME joined a patrol with a unit of the Essex police in mid-September, Operation Leopard hardly seemed like a mandate for police harassment. The officers, whose identities are being withheld in deference to concerns over retribution, had been given orders to hound 11 known offenders...
There's a reason for the officers' light touch. For years, British policing has been restrained by the 1981 abolition of the "Sus Law" that had allowed police to stop and search citizens simply on suspicion of criminal intent. "Sus" sparked riots in several British cities, amid charges that it...
Operation Leopard succeeds, then, by simply depositing officers in a trouble area, and letting their presence act as a deterrent. By the end of the night of TIME's visit, no crimes had been reported on the Craylands Estate. As one officers said later over a cup of tea back...