Hoxton West

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.HoxtonWest@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 Hoxton West 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

HOXTON WEST SNT in relation to the drug dealing issues around the MURRAY GROVE N1 vicinity. Local knowledge by the SNT has indicated that drug dealers, who appear to originate from ISLINGTON, loiter throughout the day outside the WENLOCK CAFE. They then appear to be involved in drug transactions in the surrounding areas. It is not known if this is Class A or Class B drugs which are involved. Information received has also indicated that gang members loiter at night, predominately around the BLETCHLEY COURT N1 vicinity. Information has also indicated that residents are finding the area intimidating late at night due to the presence of males loitering around in the area.

Groups of youths gather in WENLOCK ST and often this area is used for phone snatches ASB is also an issue in this area. SNT do proactive patrols and very often change shifts to later shifts to take into account when these problems are occurring and issuing ASB WARNINGS, CPW, CPN and also arresting individuals where crime is committed.

ASB Drug related Micawber St N1

HOXTON WEST N1, SNT to deal with the drug dealing issues in the surround area. Drug dealing hotspots are at the junction of MICAWBER STREET and TAPLOW STREET N1. The aim is get more information on problematic addresses in relation to drug dealing and the known to police drug users in the surrounding area. AIMS ARE: - To monitor drug dealing around MICAWBER STREET N1. - To monitor what known to police individuals are in the area causing issues. - Gather more intel on problematic addresses on 1 and 3A MICAWBER STREET N1. - Gather VRMs of drug dealing vehicles. - Gather intel on ASB on MICAWBER and TAPLOW STREET N1.

Properties have attracted homeless people drug users and often people go there with stolen property as they know it’s a safe house SNT have issued community protection warnings and ASB warnings to tackle the problem and are working very closely with CLARION HOUSING and the council With the purpose of either doing a closure order either partial or full

Drug Deaing- HABERDASHER ST N1

HABERDASHER ST N1 – Drug supply/ASB This area is very well known for drug use and drug supply Vehicles come to the area via CHART ST AND BUTTESLAND STREET N1 these vehicles then stop and drugs are exchanged normally through the rear vehicle window. SNT have a good working relationship with residents who provide details of VRM of vehicles in which SNT then PNC and markers can be placed on these vehicles. PRO ACTIVE patrols are ongoing targeting these drug users and drug dealers. Officers are stop/searching anyone acting suspiciously in the area and issuing ASB warnings, Community protection notices.

SNT do proactive patrols and very often change shifts to later shifts to take into account when these problems are occurring and issuing ASB WARNINGS, CPW, CPN and also arresting individuals where crime is committed.

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.