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:
Met Priority - Violence related offences in a public place.
Action taken:
Research carried out by Whalebone safer neighbourhood officers each day to determine the most affected areas. This allows the team to conduct targeted patrols, utilising intervention tactics ensuring more effective enforcement. Leading to a safer London. Patrols mainly focus on the Chadwell Heath High Road and Royal Anglian Way areas.
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Priority:
ASB and Drug use/dealing, focusing on the areas surrounding High Road (Chadwell Heath).
Action taken:
Research conducted by SNT officers each shift to identify the most affected areas. This allows the team to conduct targeted patrols, utilising both uniform and plain clothes tactics to prevent and detect offences.
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Priority:
Targeting speeding vehicles and E-scooters in the areas of Heath Road and Chadwell Heath High Road.
Action taken:
Research by Whalebone Safer Neighbourhood officers to determine the most affected areas. This allows the team to conduct targeted patrols, and manage interventions and carry out necessary enforcement more accurately, reporting offenders where necessary using relevant legislation to tackle the issue. This is primarily focused around the High Road Chadwell Heath.