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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:
Robbery, Theft and violent offences
Action taken:
High visibility patrols combined with plain clothes patrols. Utilise temporary CCTV cameras. Deal robustly with offenders when they are identified. Ensure that there is a focus on drug taking which often fuels acquisitive crime.
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Priority:
Drugs related offences
Action taken:
Increase high visibility patrolling particularly at peak hours, improve the usage of community protection warnings and notices. Identify and prosecute those who deal drugs to people in our community. Offer drugs diversion schemes to those we engage with
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Priority:
Burglary
Action taken:
Increase high visibility patrols to deter offenders, ensure that target hardening visits take place within our community, especially after an offence has been committed in the area. Highlight property marking schemes.