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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:
Violent Offending. Included where violence is intimated and used
Action taken:
High Visibility Patrols
Intelligence led policing and use of judicial order powers -
Priority:
Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB), including street drinking, drug offences, begging and loitering.
Action taken:
High visibility patrols at hot spots including parks and public spaces. Intelligence led patrolling. Working with Partners and using initiative such as Project Adder to address source of issues. Utilisation of early intervention scheme measures including ASB warnings, CPWs and CPNs.
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Priority:
Theft from a person and theft relating to vehicles. Includes pickpocketing, phone snatches and theft from motor vehicles.
Action taken:
Identify times of offending and provide an appropriate police response. Intelligence led patrolling including high Visibility patrols and use of covert policing tactics