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:
Shoplifting
Action taken:
Identify and target criminals stealing from local businesses.
Conduct regular patrols around frequently targeted stores.
Work with stores to identify persistent offenders.
Work with colleagues in our Volume Crime Team to identify habitual offenders and arrest them.
Utilise ASB Powers to to further enforce against habitual offenders.
Identify persistent offenders and seek Criminal Behaviour Orders on conviction.
Regularly liaise with staff in venues which are being targeted.
Provide crime prevention advice, where appropriate, to support shops that are subject to shoplifting.
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Priority:
Personal theft
Action taken:
Identifying hotspots for personal theft - this includes a range of acquisitive crime such as parcel thefts, pickpocketing, theft from motor vehicles and distraction thefts.
Identify priority areas for patrol based on analysis of crimes.
Provide crime prevention advice to keep valuable safe.
Support secondary investigations by identifying CCTV and other evidence and arresting offenders.
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Priority:
Anti-Social Behaviour in public places
Action taken:
Responding to incidents of anti-social behaviour in public areas.
Utilising information received from residents to proactively patrol hotspot areas.
Utilise anti-social behaviour powers to limit the potential for disruption to continue.