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:
Reduce shoplifting and antisocial behaviour around the Tesco stores on East Lane and Watford Road. Extend to include the Esso on Watford Rd
Action taken:
• Patrols around East Lane Tesco and betting shop resulted in regular seizures of alcohol under Brent PSPO
• A closure notice on a nearby premises resulted in reduction
• Working with staff at Ladbrokes and our partners in the council, ASB and Licensing to tackle the ASB
• A recent report from the ESSO for a drive off to SNT has identified an offender and progressing for a conviction. -
Priority:
Reduce begging and antisocial behaviour around the hospital, university campus and Big Shots golf club. Extent to focus on shoplifting in the retail venues in the hospital.
Action taken:
• ASB warnings have been issued
• Activity at the golf club has reduced, no recent reports associated with the club
• Stop and search conducted resulting in finding class B drugs
• Recent arrest for an individual causing ASB at the hospital for Burglary by SNT officers resulted in a prison sentence
• The hospital is working with police for various retail operations focusing on gathering evidence to identify and bring offenders to account -
Priority:
Reduce drug use at the Northwick Park pavilion and around North Wembley, Northwick Park and South Kenton stations.
Action taken:
• Intelligence gathering is continuing to taken place
• Stop and searches have been carried out resulting in finding class C and B drug
• Ongoing patrols have been carried out including rowdy patrols of the area
• Although drug activity has significantly reduced and numerous drug seizures, we will continue to focus patrols so the problem doesn't return.