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:
Shoplifting/ASB focusing on Sainsburys and other local shops
Action taken:
Action taken:
Our team to increase patrols with a mixture of high visibility and plain clothes and where required enforcement and engagement. Patrols in the specific locations being targewtted and surrounding area's, identifying and targetting prolific offenders and prosecutions where appropriate and joint working with store security and business's focusing on crime reduction. With relation to engagement regular retailer visits and information sharing with local businesses alongside reassurance patrols for staff and customers and support retailers on evidence gathering and reporting.
Where possible engagement with repeat offenders through intervention and referral pathways where suitable. -
Priority:
Drug dealing/ASB in localities around Merewood Road, Winderemere Road, Hampton House, local shops and Barnehurst train station.
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:
Motor vehicle crime with relation to theft of motor vehicles
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 vehicle crime and other residents as a way of target hardening and raising general awarness.