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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Action taken:
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Priority:
Violence against Women and Girls - Our Team is committed in the reduction in violent crime including in those crime committed against women and girls. This will be done by joint working with partner agencies and proactive units.
Action taken:
Northwood Hills SNT officers are conducting street briefings to advise Women and Girls regarding personal safety. Walk and talk events have been held. Locations where lone females may feel vulnerable have been patrolled. Officers will liaise with Women's Groups in the area in order to identify 'hot spot' areas so more targeted patrols can be carried out.
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Priority:
Reports of ASB, drug use and dealing in the area of Joel Street, Northwood Hills.
Action taken:
Targeted patrols by ward officers are conducted on Joel Street.
The team continue to maintain a high visibility presence during daytime/shopping hours times to safeguard shopper, residents and users of the area. -
Priority:
Preventing the damaging effects of drug dealing from both the dealers of drugs and users of drugs.
Action taken:
Uniformed and plain clothes in the area, utilising stop and search powers. Searching intelligence indicies to understand the problem in the area. Speaking to drug users on a regular basis to offer them advice and where neccessary utilising police powers.