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:
Violent crime/drugs concerns.
Been informed by local members of the community and officers own work around suspicion and concerns of ASB and alleged drug dealing.
This is to include the locality around Barnehurst train station including local shops and residential block of flats.Action taken:
Action taken:
Our team to increase patrols with a mixture of high visibility and plain clothes and where required enforcement and engagement. Identifying groups, individuals and vehicles of interest and co-ordinate a response of educating and enforcement through direct stops and searches where evidence exists and deal with appropriately through methods such as arrests, CPNW, partnership referrals. Build and increase the intelligence picture by our own knowledge supported by the information of local residents and police systems such as crime mapping . This will enable us to focus the teams efforts. -
Priority:
Burglary offences on the ward with relation to residential offences.
Action taken:
Our team to increase patrols with a variety of high visibility and plain clothes. When offences do occur the team undertake target hardening whereby we engage with the victims of crime and also engage with local residents to raise awareness and speak about security. They also assist with enquiries of reported crime by undertaking CCTV requests and looking into potnetial witnesses.
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Priority:
Motor vehicle crime with emphasis to ABC roads and Colyers Lane
Action taken:
Action taken:
Our team to increase patrols with a variety of high visibility and plain clothes to increase enforcement when required. Educating residents where required to target harden localities and thereby reduce opportunities of crime occurring. Through our own work and engaging with the public to build on the intelligence picture which will enable the team to focus and concentrate our efforts. With relation to these offences officers regulalry engage with victims of motor vhecile crime and other residents as a way of target hardening and raising general awarness.