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 and cycle enabled phone snatches
Action taken:
Freemasons Road and connecting streets is a particular concern for Snatches and Robbery
Tactics to combat this will include patrols (Covert, overt, foot, mobile and cycle)
CCTV to be scrutinised at every scene.
Any locations highlighted by op Ringtone will be researched by the team and warrants applied for it grounds exist
This will be ongoing from the action date -
Priority:
Anti Social Behaviour
Action taken:
ASB around Royal Docks School.
Particularly involving youths knocking on doors and running awayPCSO presence at school closing times.
Plain clothed officers to apprehend and identify persistent offenders -
Priority:
Drugs
Drug dealing and drug use will be an ongoing issue in all areas of London. The Team are well versed in warrant executions and will developing information for warrant applications. They will also be actively patrolling areas identified by the Ward Panel Chair and members of the public.Action taken:
Utilise Stop and Search tactics in areas that have been highlighted by members of the public as drug hotspots.
Gather intel on suspected drug dealers - Seek authority to execute warrants on premises suspected of housing dealers and their drugs.