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:
Violence against women and girls - VAWG
Action taken:
There is planned VAWG event on 02/12/2025, officers will be raising awareness through a stand in 17 and Central shopping mall. There is also a new Town Centre Team consisting of 12 officers who will be conducting patrols to detect and deter VAWG in the High Street and Town Sq.
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Priority:
Robbery
Action taken:
Officers have been starting early hours of the morning to tackle phone snatch theft/robbery issue, officers to continue to monitor the hotspot areas and deploy new tactics to combat this issue. There has been a decrease in Robbery in the area over the past 3 months.
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Priority:
Safeguarding/ASB
Action taken:
SAFEGARUDING and ASB continues to be a problem on High Street, Since September there has been an increase in ASB outside food establishments mainly Popeyes, Officers liaised with Town Centre Team to increase patrols in the area. Officers to issue ASB warnings, CPW’s and CPN, identify any criminal offences.