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:
St Andrews Church Gardens and Thornhill area - ASB, such as drug dealing and use
Action taken:
Plain clothes and uniformed patrols to combat ASB.
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Priority:
Engaging and responding to reports of criminality and ASB in OFFORD ROAD. These typically have been presented as issues around groups engaged in inappropriate behaviour such as drug use and dealing.
Action taken:
Regular patrols of both uniformed and plain clothed officers. Engagement with Local Authority and utilisation of closure orders.
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Priority:
Chapel Market - Reports of shoplifting and ASB. (Continued priority) - (review due 22/10/2026 at Next ward panel meeting)
Action taken:
Officers to conduct patrols in the and link in with the local authority to tackle issues not related to policing matters.