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 Against Women and Girls (VAWG).
Action taken:
Conduct high-visibility patrols in identified hotspot areas, particularly during key times, (eg school commute and night time economy hours), while working with local partners to raise awareness, promote safer spaces and encourage reporting. Officers will engage with women and girls in the community to better understand their concerns, feeding this into local problem solving and targeted enforcement activity.
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Priority:
Road Traffic Offences
Action taken:
• Conducting Speed Gun Operations
• Identifying offending drivers and reporting them
• Seizing uninsured vehicles and reporting the drivers -
Priority:
Motor vehicle crime-theft from and theft of vehicles.
Action taken:
• Carrying out targeted patrols in hotspot areas using both uniformed and plain-clothes officers.
• Using CCTV, ANPR, and community intelligence to identify suspects and linked vehicles.
• Promoting crime prevention advice, including the use of Faraday pouches, steering locks, and ensuring no valuables are left on display.
• Collaborating with Neighbourhood Watch, local businesses, and garages to gather intelligence and support prevention efforts.
• Engaging with victims to ensure incidents are reported and appropriate safeguarding measures are in place.