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 – Focus on a reduction in violent crime on Wealdstone High Street.
Action taken:
The specific object of this priority is to target and identify local criminal groups and individuals committing offences in Wealdstone.
Continued Op Nightingale, High Visibility patrols on the High Street in combination with plain clothes proactive patrols to target key offenders.
Operation Turkana, which focused on Gang Violence and Drug Dealing - resulted in the arrest of ten individuals, Robbery, Possession of an Offensive Weapon, drug supply and possession -
Priority:
Target and disrupt drug related activity across the ward.
Action taken:
Officers continue to conduct both plain clothes and high visibility patrols across the ward to target drug dealing. Officers continue to build a broader intelligence picture on key offenders involved in drug supply across Wealdstone.
Operation Turkana, which focused on Gang Violence and Drug Dealing - resulted in the arrest of ten individuals, Robbery, Possession of an Offensive Weapon, drug supply and possession. -
Priority:
Wealdstone South SNT is committed in the reduction in violent crime including those crimes committed against women and girls. This will be achieved through joint working with partner agencies and proactive patrols in known street drinking locations to deter VAWG.
Action taken:
Daily patrols of Wealdstone South whilst engaging with members of the community on their individual perception of safety. Increase patrols on Friday and Saturday evenings.
The team are proactively patrolling hotspot areas, providing a high visibility deterrence against offenders. Plain clothes operations are continually being conducted apprehend prolific offenders.