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 and linked anti-social behaviour in the arena shopping park N4. Crime data along with information from residents indicates that there is an ongoing issue with individuals attending the arena shopping park to steal items as well as beg and intimidate members of the public.
Action taken:
Officers will conduct a mixture of plain clothes and high visibility patrols in the area to deter offenders and make suitable use of police powers to deal with offences identified. Officers will adopt a partnership working approach to work with the businesses in the area to ensure they are playing an appropriate role in ensuring this behaviour is dealt with appropriately and not encouraged.
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Priority:
Drug Related Anti-Social Behaviour in Eade and Vale Road Reports of ASB and Drugs: Local Residents have reported to us that there are significant issues around drug users attending this location to purchase drugs also resulting in linked Anti-social behaviour. This priority was retained by the ward panel on the 3rd August 2026.
Action taken:
A mixture of high visibility and plain clothes patrols will take place in the local area. Officers will make use of stop and search and arrest powers as well as powers under the anti-social behaviour, crime and policing act 2014 to issue community protection warnings, notices and anti-social behaviour warnings. Officers will work to gather intelligence to identify any underlying causes of the issues and address these appropriately.
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Priority:
Drug related anti-social behaviour in the Garden area including Kimberley, Warwick and Stanhope Gardens.
Action taken:
Officers will conduct a mixture of high visibility and plain clothes patrols in the area making suitable use of police powers to deal with any offences identified. Officers will aim to gather intelligence to identify any long term problem solving measures that could be put into place against persistent ASB offenders such as criminal behaviour orders, closure orders and community protection notices. Officers will work with partner agencies to provide support for individuals who are seeking help for substance abuse.