Hackney Wick

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.HackneyWick@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 Hackney Wick 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

Violence Related Priority—Robbery & Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) - Set 20/03/2025. There are local concerns over violent crime, such as serious assaults and robberies, and such crime being targeted against women and girls.

As part of the VAWG initiative, regular ‘Walk & Talk’ sessions take place, details of which are published online. The team also conduct joint patrols and activities with the Hackney Enforcement Officers to target ASB and criminal offenders. Due to phone and bike thefts being a continued issue, phone and bike marking events continue to take place and will be offered to local residents.

Vehicle Crime

There have been a recent rise in Theft From Motor Vehicles & Theft From Motor Vehicles leading to additional focus around this being required. Set 20/03/2025

Utilising up to date and relevant crime data, the team regularly patrol streets and areas that have been identified as hot spots, speaking with local residents, giving crime prevention advice and distributing leaflets. The team also have regular communication with the Hackney and QEOP CCTV control rooms where incidents are being caught and offenders identified. The team are also working closely with the Hackney Enforcement Officers to target hotspots and checking vehicles to see of they have been reported Lost or Stolen.

ASB & Drugs

Concerns have been raised over increased ASB and Drug related activity around the ward. Set 20/03/2025

The team conduct targeted patrols around the reported hotspot areas and conduct joint patrols with Hackney Enforcement Officers to tackle recurring issues and repeat offenders. Thos who are caught causing ASB are being issued ASB warnings, Community Protection Warnings and Community Protection Notices. Those who are caught committing drug related offences are being dealt with appropriately.

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.