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:
ASB in the Edgware town centre with a particular focus on restoring the public and key stakeholder trust in the police. Encouraging people to return to the town centre and feel safe to work, commute and shop there.
Action taken:
Increased patrols at peak times
Working with Broadwalk Shopping Centre and shops to empower them to feel safer and report shopliftings and assaults on staff.
Joined up working with the Safer Business Network to share intelligence and data to reduce shoplifting.
Greater enforcement of the Public Space Protection Order (I.E street drinking and ASB around Bakery Path and the Train/Bus Station) -
Priority:
Robbery and open space violence (Including Violence against Women and Girls)
A focus on robbery and street violence (Including VAWG), in the entirety of the ward, not just the town centre.
Action taken:
Hold regular VAWG events to identify areas of concerns with women and girls (I.e Walk and talks)
Better joined up working with NW Priority Crime Unit (Robbery team) to share intelligence and proactively target known robbery nominals
Target knife carriers through innovative and new policing tactics.
Increase patrols around school finish time where we see a spike in robberies. -
Priority:
Burglary
Reduction in Burglary offences with a lean towards education and prevention.
Burglary is a problem that effects the whole ward and analysis would suggest this is done by travelling criminals, targeting high value vehicles and smaller items like jewellery and currency.As a ward team it is imperative we educate the people of Edgware to protect themselves against this sort of crime
Action taken:
Hold at least 3 Burglary Outreach events per month (Street briefings and security checks)
Proactively identify and challenge security issues whilst on routine patrols
Liase with NW Burglary Team to identify patterns of offending in the area to give the most up to date advice.