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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Action taken:
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Priority 1: Anti Social Behaviour - Drug Related
Action taken:
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. Other powers to be considered. Work continues jointly with Criminal Exploitation teams and within Schools and vulnerable adults at risk of Cuckooing too, working with Local Authority to safeguard and divert anyone coming to notice for offences -
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Priority 3: Team working to reduce, deter, prevent and detect incidents of robbery within Longbridge Ward on the periphery of Mayesbrook park.
Action taken:
Action taken:
To utilize a range of engagement and enforcement tactics including partnership working and proactivity in managing and targeting those offenders known or intent on committing offences. To utilize community protection toolkit in duality where proportionate and reasonable to do so with offenders. To continue to work with design out crime officer and utilizing funding streams to improve and enhance patrols and visibility in key hot spots of note. To work in partnership in problem solving incidents of robbery in Longbridge ward. -
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Priority 2: Violence Against Women and Girls - to prevent, deter, detect and reduce incidents of note in Barking park.
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 in Barking park. 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.