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 related priorities - ASB in subway on Windsor Road, Avenue Park and surrounding areas. People drink alcohol and use drugs.
Action taken:
• Provide hi visibility and plain clothes patrols.
• Joined operation with internal and external partners to reduce it.
• Conduct street briefing about VAWG and gave out hand out in regards to how to stay safe -
Priority:
Anti-Social Behavior Street drinking - Tackling ASB issues related to street drinking around High Street
Action taken:
• Targeting areas where street drinking is a constant problem.
• Working with local council enforcements agencies to patrol affected areas for street drinking. Issue regular street drinkers ASB notices.
• Carrying out regular patrols in drug related crime hotspots – sometimes they are the same as street drinking hotspots. -
Priority:
VAWG (Violence Against Women & Girls) related priority -"VAWG refers to acts of violence that are disproportionately or exclusively experienced by women and girls, including but not limited to domestic abuse, sexual violence, stalking, harassment, honour-based abuse, and coercive control."
Action taken:
• Regular and joint patrols with local neighborhood groups to be more visible.
• Conducting plain close operation in the area.
• Increase patrols in the area
• Identify and prosecute offenders
• Work in partnership with internal and external agencies/ departments