Barnsbury
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Barnsbury 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 Barnsbury@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).
Deirdre Grehan
Dedicated Ward Officer
Kerry Landrock
Police Constable
Vinnie Maningas
Sergeant
Saskia Van Den Berghe
PCSO
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 |
|---|---|
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St Andrews Church Gardens and Thornhill area - ASB, such as drug dealing and use Issued 13 August 2026 |
Plain clothes and uniformed patrols to combat ASB. Actioned 30 October 2026 |
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Engaging and responding to reports of criminality and ASB in OFFORD ROAD. These typically have been presented as issues around groups engaged in inappropriate behaviour such as drug use and dealing. Issued 13 August 2026 |
Regular patrols of both uniformed and plain clothed officers. Engagement with Local Authority and utilisation of closure orders. Actioned 30 October 2026 |
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Chapel Market - Reports of shoplifting and ASB. (Continued priority) - (review due 22/10/2026 at Next ward panel meeting) Issued 13 August 2026 |
Officers to conduct patrols in the and link in with the local authority to tackle issues not related to policing matters. Actioned 30 October 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 Barnsbury are saying are the issues in the area:
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