De Beauvoir

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.

To speak to your local team about policing issues, and find out how you can get involved, you can email them at CEMailbox.DeBeauvoir@met.police.uk.

In an emergency always call 999.

If it is not an emergency, you can report crime online at www.met.police.uk or dial 101.

We regularly speak to local residents to establish what issues they may be experiencing in the area. The word cloud below represents the issues that residents of De Beauvoir have highlighted as priorities for the area recently. Word clouds are graphical representations of word frequency that give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently. The larger the word in the visual below the more common the word was in the local survey.

We seek to tackle the issues raised by you and your communities in your local area. To 'Have your say' on local issues, please click on the button below to complete a short survey.

Violence Related Priority

Robbery - Robbery is a concern for residents, after discussion at the ward panel meeting it was agreed to target the areas that has seen an increase. Majority of these robbery's are linked to bike crime.

High-visibility and cycle patrols working with Pan London units such as TSG and VCTF as well as local units Robbery Task Force and Violence Suppression Units. We will also be considering working with partners to improve safety in these areas to reassure local residents.

Anti-Social Behaviour & Drug use - Hertford Road/ De Beauvoir Crescent

Drug use and Anti-Social Behaviour has risen in this location. Stairwells are being used to consume illegal substances and for people to gather in. These individuals have been littering in the stairwells and causing a general disturbance.

We have been working with Hackney Council and the local Housing mangers that cover this area. We are planning joint patrols in the area and will be patrolling the area at various times throughout the day.

Anti-Social Behaviour - Drug use- Buckingham Road/ Kingsgate Estate

Anti-Social Behaviour in the Kingsgate Estate/ Buckingham Road Stairwells being used to consume illegal substances, with person congregating, making noise, littering, and associated ASB and issues in bin area - linked to other problems

Area will have patrols at various times throughout the day with other internal partners and links with partners for issues that can be resolved through them.

In an emergency always call 999. If it is not an emergency, you can report crime online at www.met.police.uk or dial 101.