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:
S - Address the rising concern of violence towards women and girls. (VAWG)
O - To reduce an increase in reports of violence against women and girls.
A - To work with local partners and the community to identify vulnerable hot spots.
R - This is a MET priority and is a realistic ward priority.Action taken:
Reassurance walks with trained officers to identify vulnerable hotspots and then to work with our partners on the local authority and designing out crime team to create a safer environment.
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Priority:
S - ASB including drug use and street drinking in the Leytonstone underground and Church Lane areas.
O - To target both drug users and suppliers and to target ASB
A - Work with partners and use the legal framework provided to address the issues.
R - ASB in this hotspot is a community concern and a realistic priority.Action taken:
Target dugs use and street drinking by implementing CPN and civil injections in conjunction with substantive offences by increased focused patrols to improve public safety and confidence.
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Priority:
S - Reports of shoplifting
O - to target offenders
A - To work with partners to identify and prosecute offenders
R - This is a community concerns and a priorityAction taken:
Working with partners to address the rise in offences and to try when possible to divert offenders but to actively target repeat offenders to seek prosecutions.
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Priority:
WARD PRIORITY THREE:
Tackle vehicle crime reduction
Crime prevention engagement, high visibility, intel-led patrols in hot spot areas.Action taken:
Ward officers to distribute crime prevention advice in and around hot spot areas identified.
PCSOs to conduct reassurance visits and gather intel.
Policing team to conduct traffic operations to combat.