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:
Violence
Reducing Violent Crime as a Pan London objective working in conjunction with local residents and businesses to focus on hotspots areas and identified individualsAction taken:
SNT officers are carrying out high visibility patrols, whilst also regularly carrying out arrest enquiries for high harm offenders.
SNT officers have worked with Croydon council to safeguard vulnerable females which has involved conditions imposed on males linked to violence to have them removed from Croydon.
SNT officers have also worked hard alongside partner agencies to improve safety conditions within communal locations of locations which include security doors fixed, lighting increased, joint visits and regular contact with residents. -
Priority:
Shoplifting
The issue of shoplifting has been raised by Addiscombe East residents and staff in storesAction taken:
SNT Officers have completed the following within the last three months
- Working in conjunction with secondary schools to carry out intervention for school children carrying out ASB and shoplifting
- Obtained convictions at court for known shoplifters
- Recovered goods stolen
- Obtained a 5year Criminal Behaviour Order against a prolific offender
-custodial sentence for a shoplifter -
Priority:
Drug use/ASB
The issue of drug use and linked ASB was raised by residents and staff in Addiscombe East.
Action taken:
SNT officers have worked hard to carry out high visibility patrols and improve intervention methods when dealing with drug users.
Good work carried out by officers includes
- A notice to seek repossession has been applied for alongside Croydon council for an address linked to ASB
- Joint agency work whereby a vulnerable victim and an address linked to ASB and other matters is being rehoused
- numerous addresses visited in relation to concerns of vulnerable persons being cuckooed
- Arrests for drug offences and drug users who have failed to attend courtSNT officers are working in conjunction with Croydon council and housing associations regarding requesting and obtaining the repossession of three addresses/eviction of tenants lwhere there is continuous ASB on the ward along with other offences.