Sussex Police

Sussex police covers the counties of East Sussex and West Sussex. East Sussex is predominantly rural and is mostly made up of villages and towns. The two largest hotspots on the map are for Eastbourne and Hastings. The remainder of the county is largely clear of concentrations of car crime. Of the top 10 worst postcodes for the Sussex Police area, only three are in East Sussex and all make up the Hastings area.

It's a similar story in West Sussex, but it does have more in the way of built-up areas in Brighton, Crawley and Worthing. The RH11 part of Crawley is the worst postcode, closely followed by those that make up Brighton. BN9 is Newhaven and, in keeping with other parts of England and Wales, is a hotspot as it's a port.

The county also includes Gatwick Airport, though a strong security presence means there's not much crime to report. In the Shoreham corridor between Brighton and Worthing, Sussex Police have recently said that they are "hunting a gang of thieves believed to be responsible for a spate of car crime in Shoreham. The number of vehicles being broken into in the area has more than doubled in the last three months compared to the first three months of the year. Now officers have launched Operation Motorvation to try to catch the thieves responsible and to encourage owners to make their cars a less attractive target. In the first three months of the year 10 people reported having items stolen from their vehicles in the town."

It should be noted that Sussex Police sees a lower rate of car crime than many other forces in the country.

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