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:
Drug related offences - Working towards a reduction in drug related activity on the ward by targeted patrols, focusing on the more regularly reported areas such as Well street E9 , Mare street E9 which are the drug hotspots on the ward
Action taken:
Your team will continue proactive visible and plain clothes patrols on the ward targeting those involved in drug use/supply. The team have executed court warrants to arrest wanted suspects for drug offences. The team have also been working with local authorities, housing and building management to review housing tenancy for subjects involved in continued drug related activity in and around their residence.
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Priority:
Robbery
Action taken:
Proactive patrols continue to be conducted by the team to target individuals involved in robbery. The team have held crime prevention seminars / shared crime prevention advice to residents. The team will continue mobile patrols around hotspots, engaging with members of public to target harden and also by putting up "Look Up, Look Out" signs at bus stops. Arrest enquiries will also be conducted for those identified as being involved in reported robberies.
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Vehicle Crime - There have been concerns raised around the number of vehicle crime on the ward which includes Theft from Motor Vehicle, Theft from Motor Vehicle, Vehicle Interference, and speeding.
Action taken:
The team will conduct targeted patrols around areas affected by vehicle crime, conduct checks on vehicles to see if any have been reported as stolen and conduct engagement events. The team have also worked alongside the traffic department who have conducted a speeding operation resulting in numerous drivers being processed for driving offences including speeding. The team will look to arrange another operation in the near future.