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 1 – Robbery
To reduce Robbery and Violence related offences within the areas of Northcote Road, and around Shellgate Rd, and Clapham Common.Action taken:
Interrogating intelligence and analytical data in order to identify locations for patrols and potential offenders, in keeping with the summer crime plan and neighbourhood guarantee. Officers will promote crime prevention through social media, leaflet drops and engagement with the community. Variable shift changes to tackle trends, and provide high visibility and plain clothes patrols
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Priority 2 – Burglary
Priority is to reduce Residential Burglaries throughout the Northcote ward (most common types - slip lock & sash window offences).Action taken:
Accessing various streams of intelligence-based resources to direct and define a patrol strategy for officers to identify locations for patrols and potential offenders. DWO’s will conduct High visibility patrols and promoting of crime prevention through social media and engagement with Businesses & residents.
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Priority 3 – Motor Vehicle Crime .
Vehicle crimes on Northcote ward are prominent in mainly centre of Northcote where high end vehicles have been identified.Action taken:
Officers will carry out directed patrols such as Operation Sensor in order to reduce MV crime within the ward. Patrolling officers will identify insecure vehicles, and valuables left on show, and given advice around motor vehicle security. Community engagement, include delivering CPA, officers carry our reassurance visits to repeat victims of crime. Crime prevention leaflet drops in those areas targeted by criminals, and advice around including faraday porches and steering locks.
Working in partnership with other local wards to identify offenders through research of niche methods used to commit specific crime.