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 CRIME-To patrol in and around all known local areas that have seen an increase in theft snatches and robberies, predominantly in the East Village area.
Action taken:
Operations culminating overt and covert tactics to target the issue.
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Priority:
ASB - QEOP has seen a rise in ASB offences involving drug taking, noise and people congregating in communal residential areas late at night. This includes drug related incidents/noise at night/smoking on communal stairs.
Action taken:
High Visibility patrols, engaging with people, and moving people on from communal areas during unsociable hours.
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Priority:
Thefts - reduction in mobile phone/car and bike theft
Action taken:
Targeted patrols, laising with East Village re CCTV and crime prevention advice to residents
By continued police visibility in hot spot areas –
Victory Park/outside Stratford International/DLR station, especially at weekends at night
During pre-school and after school runs near Chobham Academy
Bike marking events so if people stopped it helps to determine bike is stolen if bike is marked.
Community to use social media to warn people of suspected criminals in the area
Community to continue to report if they have seen or been a victim of this crime -
Priority:
ASB - Skating community, as the summer sppraoches the Olympic Park sees a rise in visitors and young people from the Skating community entering the park. There is also a rise in ASB related incidents in relation to the groups of skaters.
Action taken:
High visibility patrols at peak times, engagement with UCL where skaters often congregate, joint working with QEOP security teams, to deal with issues as they arise.