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Your Safer Neighbourhoods Team (SNT) 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.
Violent crime remains a top priority for the Barnes Safer Neighbourhood Team, specifically VAWG related offences and violence targeting school children around school finish times.
Issued 10 September 2024
The Barnes Safer Neighbourhood Team will continue to patrol hotspot locations that have had a history of violent offences. There is also a focus on protecting the Schools due to some of the victims unfortunately being students from the local Secondary schools in the area.
Actioned 10 September 2024
Following recent incidents of begging in parts of Barnes as well as other reports of ASB around Hammersmith Bridge, this has been agreed as a ward priority to try and tackle incidents and identify perpetrators.
Issued 10 September 2024
Regular patrols of ward hotspots to provide a visible presence with the aim of deterring would be perpetrators. Continuing to engage with known offenders and utilising appropriate legislation to prevent repeat occurences.
Actioned 10 September 2024
After discussing the ward priorities at our recent Police Liaison Group Meeting it has been decided to put our third priority towards reducing vehicle crime, be that theft of or theft from motor vehicles, this remains a key area of concern for residents of Barnes.
Issued 10 September 2024
Officers will continue to patrol crime hotspots to try and identify and deter criminality. Joint working with crime prevention officers to put up signage in vulnerable areas. Engagement events in local areas to improve awareness around vehicle security to try and reduce the opportunities for criminals to commit offences.
Actioned 10 September 2024