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:
Priority 1
ASB targeting Markfield Recreation Ground N15 and Broad Lane square N15
Action taken:
High Visibility Patrols in the area during peak times.
Powers under the Anti-Social Behaviour Act to be utilised to manage prolific Offenders in the area with the use of Anti-Social Behaviour Warnings, Community Protection Warnings and Community Protection Notices.
Develop and act on any intelligence in relation to premises involved in the supply of legal drugs.
Stop Search powers to be used where appropriate and use of enforcement to manage.
Link in with partner including the council and local support agencies to manage offender management in the area.
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Priority:
Priority 2.
Shoplifting Tottenham Hale Retail Park
Action taken:
Mixture of High Visibility and plain clothes patrols working with Tesco and other stores security to target prolific offenders.
Work with local Town Centre Team and use of AUROR information sharing system to identify repeat offences and suspects across Metropolitan Police Service.
Build and secure evidence for Criminal Behaviour Orders to manage repeat offenders and reduce crime mainly in and around top ten offenders and to be reviewed periodically.
Use of Engagement bus and crime prevention stall in Tesco High Road and Retail Park and to work closely with staff and security to manage ongoing issue.
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Priority:
Priority 3 Violence against person
Action taken:
Inclusive of Ferry Lane and Canal path with high visibility patrols to reassure the local community.
To plan and consider planned patrols with residents in the area to reassure and to work alongside to gather intelligence and prevent an reduce crime.
Look at causes of crime in the area and consider use of targeted patrols and use of powers under the Anti-Social Behaviour Act using Anti-Social Behaviour warnings, Community Protection Warnings and Community Protection Notices to manage anti-social behaviour in the area that can escalate to criminal offences.