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:
3 Robberies
Action taken:
- Ward-wide crackdown on robberies, via Operation Terminus and local policing
- Implement strategies to deter people coming into Preston with criminal/ASB intent
- Focus on schools – Preston Manor – and supporting young people
- Identify if student from Preston Manor could engage with ward panel
- Engagement with partners as neededTarget: reduce robberies and pre-empt potential for offender influx into Preston.
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Priority:
2 Preston Park
Action taken:
- Maintain/increase high visibility and patrols
- More late evening/night patrols in summer months
- High engagement with park users and local residents for intelligence gathering, strategies and reassurance
- Engage with new owners of former bowls club on mitigation strategiesTarget: arrests, visibility and planning to reduce and deter drug use/ASB in the park.
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Priority:
1 Preston Road and Preston Road Station
Action taken:
- Remove beggars and shoplifters
- Investigate and crackdown on ‘dodgy’ shops
- Amplify engagement with legitimate businesses
- Encourage shop owner connection with ward panel
- Crackdown on illegal parking, aggressive behaviour and ASB
- Work pro-actively with Brent Council, BTP, TfL, ANO on identified issues