Caledonian

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 Caledonian.snt@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 Caledonian 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

Preventing Violence against the person is a priority on the Caledonian Ward.

- Uniform and plain clothes patrols, - Targeting areas where issues may occur to deter incidents occurring and being visible to the community, - identifying culprits and putting measures in place to mitigate matters escalating.

Drugs use/ ASB

ASB around the Bemerton Estate and Caledonian Road. Groups tend to go into the blocks and congregate in communal areas and take drugs. Residents are worried when using communal spaces.

- Uniform and Plain clothes patrols, - Liaising with Islington Council and looking at CCTV to identify individuals who are spotted causing a nuisance and council are taking enforcement action - Direct link to the Concierge to obtain real time information - Section 35 dispersals, - Park guard patrols.

Theft from person

Theft related offences predominantly around the the King's Cross area.

- Op Soundwave to takle theft related offence. - Officers have spoken to staff at the venue's which have been targeted and provided target hardening posters, - regular uniform and plain clothes patrols. - identifying individuals concerned in theft related offences.

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.