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:
Violence Against Women and Girls in Parks and open spaces
Tackling violence against women and girls deterring and detecting crime, providing visibility and reassurance and increase public confidence in policingAction taken:
Hi-Vis patrols along the High road and the Train station.
Re-assuring women and Girls though engagement.
Linking up with the local Pubs on the safe place scheme and giving encouragements. -
Priority:
Increase in vehicle crimes in certain areas of the community. This is mainly due to the fact that the community is close to the A406 and the nearby streets are the ones that fall victim to these crimes.
Action taken:
Provide a visible police presence in identified Hot-spot areas for prevention and public reassurance.
Using Social Media to give crime prevention advice where its possible to do so. -
Priority:
ROBBERY
This has been opened due to a spate of robberies over the last couple of weeks
The main aims of this priority are to:
* Reduce mobile phone snatches
* Improve crime prevention
* Improve public awareness on the problemAction taken:
Increase foot patrols around hotspot area; High Road N2, areas around the Tube station.
Link up with school officers on educating the local schools on crime prevention methods. -
Priority:
Police the areas which has become hotspots for ASB - Drug related incidents are increasing in the areas around Strawberry Vale and some selected roads.
Action taken:
1. Arrest suspects of the on going ASB
2. Working with the L/A to issue PSPO/ CPW whichever is possible
3. Constant patrols on selected roads where the ASB is present