Belsize

Welcome to Met Engage,

We're transforming the Met to become a service that truly delivers for you.

Through our new platform Met Engage you can get to know your local officers, help shape how we police your local area and have direct access to key information and advice.

This isn't just a platform for us to tell you what we're doing in your area, it's an opportunity for you to tell us what's concerning you most so we can take action on the things that truly matter to you.

Belsize Safer Neighbourhoods Team

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 contact to your team about local policing issues, email us at Belsize@contact.metengage.co.uk or pick an officer to email below. (Please do not use this contact method to report crime, in an emergency always call 999 or you can report crime online at www.met.police.uk or dial 101).

Ashley Blenman

Inspector

Mark Mccann

Sergeant

Yaye Sall-White

PCSO

James Thompson

Police Constable

Local Priority Issues

We are committed to tackling the issues that matter most to local communities. Based on our conversations with residents, and the issues they have raised with us, our main priorities are:

Priority	Action taken
Drug related offences around Belsize Park and local surrounding areas. Combating the street dealers that deal in these areas and the population that use drugs. Which lead to littering, noise disturbance and other types of ASB behaviour. Issued 01 March 2026	Your Belsize NPT are increasing their patrols, working alongside stakeholders and partners to help decrease this offence type. Officers are combating this offence type by conducting stop and search, arresting suspects as well as issuing CPW's, CPN's and ASB warnings. Over the past couple of months, Belsize NPT have been out conducting plain clothes and high visibility patrols, completing several stops and searches Actioned 01 June 2026
Burglary Residential and/or commercial burglary offences, working with partners and stakeholders to prevent and drive offences of this nature down. Issued 01 March 2026	Your ward team work closely with partner agencies to increase patrols in the Ward. We are also working with local stakeholders raise awareness, to help local residents combat this type of crime. Over the past several weeks, we have been conducting high visibility patrols in the hotspot areas to help prevent this type of crime. Actioned 01 June 2026
Theft Theft of mobile phones, theft from motor vehicles, theft shoplifting, Belsize NPT are working alongside stakeholders and partners to decrease this type of offence in and around the Haverstock Hill area. Issued 01 March 2026	Your NPT have increased high visibility patrols around identified hotspot locations, crime prevention advice and engagement will continue to be carried out, whilst officers are out on patrol. Belsize NPT have worked closely with several shops to help reduce shoplifting offences. We are conducting plain clothed patrols to help combat theft offences. Actioned 01 June 2026

Priority

Action taken

Drug related offences around Belsize Park and local surrounding areas. Combating the street dealers that deal in these areas and the population that use drugs. Which lead to littering, noise disturbance and other types of ASB behaviour.

Issued 01 March 2026

Your Belsize NPT are increasing their patrols, working alongside stakeholders and partners to help decrease this offence type. Officers are combating this offence type by conducting stop and search, arresting suspects as well as issuing CPW's, CPN's and ASB warnings.

Over the past couple of months, Belsize NPT have been out conducting plain clothes and high visibility patrols, completing several stops and searches

Actioned 01 June 2026

Burglary
Residential and/or commercial burglary offences, working with partners and stakeholders to prevent and drive offences of this nature down.

Issued 01 March 2026

Your ward team work closely with partner agencies to increase patrols in the Ward. We are also working with local stakeholders raise awareness, to help local residents combat this type of crime.

Over the past several weeks, we have been conducting high visibility patrols in the hotspot areas to help prevent this type of crime.

Actioned 01 June 2026

Theft
Theft of mobile phones, theft from motor vehicles, theft shoplifting, Belsize NPT are working alongside stakeholders and partners to decrease this type of offence in and around the Haverstock Hill area.

Issued 01 March 2026

Your NPT have increased high visibility patrols around identified hotspot locations, crime prevention advice and engagement will continue to be carried out, whilst officers are out on patrol.

Belsize NPT have worked closely with several shops to help reduce shoplifting offences. We are conducting plain clothed patrols to help combat theft offences.

Actioned 01 June 2026

The word cloud below represents the issues raised by residents through their Local Matters survey. We take this into consideration along with discussions with stakeholders, ward panel meetings and conversations with the public when setting our key priorities

What members in Belsize are saying are the issues in the area:

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