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:
ASB Priority and Drug Dealing
Action taken:
Specific: Reduce anti-social behaviour and drug dealing within identified hotspot locations across Harrow Road Ward through targeted patrols, intelligence-led deployments, stop and search activity, and joint working with partner agencies.
Measurable: Achieve a reduction in reported ASB incidents and intelligence reports relating to drug dealing, whilst increasing positive outcomes such as arrests, community resolutions, stop and searches, and safeguarding referrals.
Achievable: Utilise dedicated ward officers, local intelligence, community engagement, and partnership resources to target offenders and disrupt criminal activity.
Relevant: Tackles community concerns around ASB and drug-related crime, improves public confidence, and contributes to safer public spaces.
Time-bound: Deliver and review outcomes over the next 3 months, with monthly assessments of crime and ASB data to measure progress and identify emerging hotspots.
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Priority:
Youth Violence
Action taken:
Specific: Reduce youth violence, robbery, weapon-enabled crime, and the exploitation of young people within Harrow Road Ward through targeted enforcement, intelligence-led patrols, safeguarding, and offender management.
Measurable: Increase positive outcomes through arrests, stop and searches, weapon recoveries, intelligence submissions, safeguarding referrals, Youth Offending Team (YOT) interventions, and the use of Criminal Behaviour Orders (CBOs) for persistent offenders.
Achievable: Deliver targeted activity using ward resources, partnership working with YOT, schools, local authority services, and community partners to identify, manage, and divert young people at risk of offending or exploitation.
Relevant: Addresses local concerns around youth violence, knife crime, robberies, and anti-social behaviour, improving community safety and confidence.
Time-bound: Review activity and outcomes monthly, with the aim of achieving measurable reductions in youth violence over the next 3 months.
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Priority:
Knife Crime
Action taken:
Specific: Reduce knife crime within Harrow Road Ward through intelligence-led patrols, targeted stop and search activity, engagement with young people, safeguarding of vulnerable individuals, and enforcement against those carrying or using knives.
Measurable: Increase positive outcomes through weapon recoveries, arrests, intelligence submissions, stop and searches, safeguarding referrals, Youth Offending Team (YOT) interventions, and the use of Criminal Behaviour Orders (CBOs) where appropriate.
Achievable: Utilise ward officers, proactive operations, partnership working with YOT, schools, local authorities, and community organisations to identify, deter, and manage offenders and those at risk of carrying weapons.
Relevant: Addresses local concerns regarding knife crime, serious violence, robbery, and youth offending, helping to improve community safety and confidence.
Time-bound: Review performance monthly and deliver measurable reductions in knife crime over the next 3 months.