Shacklewell

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.Shacklewell@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 Shacklewell 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

The local community has expressed concerns regarding the issue of robbery and phone snatches in the local area. Residents have stated that there is an issue with phone snatching taking place particularly along the A10 and Stoke Newington High Street junction with the Crossway N16. The issue appears to take place at various times of the day in which members of the public have reported their phones snatched from their hands. This is a long term goal and the safer neighbourhood team hopes to have made progress by the next ward panel meeting.

The safer neighbourhood team will continue to conduct regular patrols, engaging with shops and residents to safeguard those in the area. Also, the local SNT will work closely with the local council enforcement officers, as well as the local Town Centre Team in order to identify prolific offenders.

ASB

Local residents have expressed concerns around ASB, drug taking and antisocial behaviour which is happening around Shacklewell Row/Hindle House/ Somerford Grove. There are a lot of reports of cars sitting idling or driving at high speed.

We will be including this area in our daily patrols and also changing our shifts to focus on the target times that this ASB is occuring. We are doing multi-agency work alsongside the council to improve fencing, building access and parking restrictions.

ASB

ASB and Traffic issues around the pedestrian crossing on the A10 junction with Palatine Road. This is used by school children on their way to school and are frequently put in danger by cyclists going through the red light.

Officers are patroling the crossing at regular intervals and issuing tickets to offenders who continue to

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.