Clerkenwell

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 Clerkenwell.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 Clerkenwell 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

Fabric Nightclub - Charterhouse Street There is an on-going issues with criminal gangs targetting customers of the nightclub, stealing their phones and property and dealing controlled drugs.

Targetted patrols during hours of operation. Partnership working with the local authority for increased patrols from Parkguard and Nightsafe. Op LECTURA officers to maintain fixed posts at the location during hours of operation and up to and beyond closing time.

Cuckooing

Cuckooing is a behaviour where a person or persons control and or intimidate a vulnerable person in order to use their address for anti-social and or illegal activties.

Police are proactively monitorning new reports coming in to establish if they may be linked to cuckooing. When this is identified, officers will be adopting a multi-agency approach to provide support and assistance to the persons affected and taking positive action to identify, detain and prosecute those suspected of this behaviour.

Wilmington Sq/Granville Sq/Percy Circus - Drug Misuse

Wilmington Sq/Granville Sq/Percy Circus - Ongoing reports of drug misuse and dealing of controlled drugs in this area.

Police are actively patrolling and targetting this area, with a mix of uniform and plain clothes patrol, in order to proactively target those dealing controlled drugs in the area. Liaision with St Mungo's hostels on Rosebery Avenue and Wharton Street as there is a belief that some of their residents are involved in this behaviour.

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.