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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:
Violence
Violence related crime around the Transport Hub/Night time economy locations and open spaced areas.
Action taken:
Team to conduct patrols at busy periods for the transport hub. High visibility patrols to be conducted during hours of night time economy, utilising policing powers such as community protection warnings for those individuals that are contributing to the overall anti-social behaviour and violence issues.
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Priority:
Theft/Robbery
Theft from the person and Robbery based crimes around ALBERT EMBANKMENT, Transport HUB and open spaced areas.
Action taken:
High visibility patrols to be conducted using stop and search and dispersal orders where appropriate. Operations to be conducted in the local area surrounding the issues of robbery and theft snatch.
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Priority:
Drugs
Drug related crime and ASB in the full Vauxhall ward boundary
Action taken:
Intelligence lead patrols to be conducted by the team, targeting known drug dealing/use hot spots within the ward, utilising community protection warnings or notices where appropriate. Officers to work closely with retail venues to tackle low level crime being committed to fund drug habits.