Bethnal Green 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.stpeters@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 Bethnal Green 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

Middleton Green/ Clare Street:- Residents have raised concerns regarding youths dealing drugs and gathering Middleton Green. As well as vehicle ASB at the location.

NPT have completed patrols at the location and weapon sweeps. NPT continue to work with the local authority to tackle issues within the area.

Drug Related ASB

Drug related ASB continues to be an issue throughout the ward. This is at all times of day and night. Local Residents have expressed concerns around safety to go out at night due to the fear of violence.

NPT have conducted and will continue to conduct patrols throughout the above locations and the ward to target offenders. This will include walk and talk initiatives and community street briefings.

Drug Related ASB

Parmiter Street/Huddleston Close Reports of drug dealing were raised to SNT Officers. SNT are working with local Hostel and outreach teams. Officers will continue to find innovative ways to tackle this problem over the following month to ensure no reoccurrence, but we ask the public to report any signs of potential drug dealing, no matter how small it may seem.

Increase Patrols, Intelligence led

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.