Your Safer Neighbourhoods Team
Your Safer Neighbourhoods Team is a group of Met police officers dedicated to serving your community. The team is made up of officers based in your area (or 'ward'), supported by additional officers from the wider area.
We work closely with local authorities, community leaders and residents to decide our policing priorities for the area. This helps us to find useful, long-term solutions to local problems, while maintaining our wider focus on reducing crime across London.
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Crimes and priorities
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Priority:
Action taken:
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Priority:
Heath Ward’s drugs ASB in the three towers (Laburnum House, Peverel House, Hawkwell House).
Action taken:
To conduct visible patrols, and target individuals intent on committing offences linked to anti-social behaviour and Drug related in key areas identified. On identifying offenders to work with LBBD local authority around implementation of other tactics including Community Protection disposals and for those most persistent applying for Criminal Behaviour Orders, or issuing Community Protection Warning/Notices to disperse
Ongoing ASB drugs issues occurring in the high rises identified as a complex long term ongoing issue that would require a multi-agency problem solving approach. High visibility foot patrols and community engagement/awareness to help reduce ASB.
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Priority:
VAWG patrols, Oxlow Lane, Wood lane and other Heath hotspots
Action taken:
Working in partnership with local authority and community to reduce, prevent, detect and deter incidents and impact of VAWG on women and girls . Team will be conducting a range of deployments and activities, including engagements and events to reduce and prevent incidents linked to VAWG. An intelligence led and problem solving approach to those committing offences will see continued partnership and joint working with local authority and key agencies, and third sector to design out and target high harm offenders including use of technology linked to Live Facial Recognition pre planned operations . A mixture of enforcement and engagement work will continue, seeing further referrals into Community MARAC multi agency pathway, and to utilize other tactics linked to Community Protection and Criminal Behaviour Orders as and where able.
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Priority:
Theft of and from Motor Vehicle Crime in Wythenshawe Road and Crescent Road
Action taken:
Wythenshawe Road has been reported as a hub of motor vehicle crime and general antisocial behaviour.
Team were working to prevent, deter and detect offences linked anti social behaviour related offences through enforcement action and activities, engagement events and partnership joint working with local authority community enforcement teams, CCTV teams and other statutory agencies. Further referrals of individuals or groups identified are also completed and sent through to the Local Authority led Community MARAC meeting, and further joint working with, Drug/Alcohol related outreach teams, continues.