King's Cross

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 SNTEK-.KingsCross@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 King's Cross 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

Combatting Violence Against Women and Girls – Intelligence led local policing and partnership working with Camden Council and other partners to increase patrols around the affected area's.

Increasing patrols in the hot spot crime area's. Working with local partners to deliver education to residents and visitors to the ward in relation to VAWG crime prevention.

Drug-related Anti-Social Behaviour

Ward team to regularly patrol high volume ASB complaint locations like parks and open spaces. The team will work with Camden Community Protection Officers to identify and intervene in ASB using Central North’s Early Intervention Scheme. The team will also work with Street Population agencies and charities to divert vulnerable people to appropriate channels to avoid criminal activity.

The ward team regularly patrol with council community safety officers in the areas most effected on the ward by anti-social behaviour to gather intelligence and to deter activity.

Drug Activity

Working with housing associations and the council to identify dwellings being used for drug activity and supply. Engaging with residents to encourage early reporting of ASB and utilisation of ASB police and council powers.

The ward team visit addresses regularly with council and housing association officers to deter drug activity in blocks, gather intelligence in relation to addresses of concern and to provide reassurance to residents.

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.