Highbury

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 Highbury.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 Highbury 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

There has been an increased report of resident's vehicles being broken into and items being stolen.

Hi vis mobile patrols within the area to recognise any offenders. 'Street a week' patrols to begin where officers will focus on targetted streets, providing crime prevention advice and high visibility patrols. Officers to work with the ASB team to patrol the ward during unsociable hours. Officers are also working with the council to bid for CCTV in these areas.

Theft from a person

There has been an influx of reports in regards to theft. This includes phone snatches and theft of a pedal cycle in and around Highbury Fields.

Officers to conduct hi vis patrols in and around Highbury Fields to identify these offenders. Officers also to engage with the community by providing crime prevention advice via leaflet drops and door to door knocks. Officers are also arranging a community events which include a bike marking event and property marking event to provide reassurance to residents and help protect their property.

Violence Against Women and Girls

Violence agaisnt Women and Girls is a Met wide priority and officers are aware that women and girls may feel unsafe in large open spaces such as Highbury Fields. Our aim is to reduce violence against women and girls and provide reassurance to our community, encouraging residents to report these incidents and have the resources to be able to report

Officers to conduct hi vis patrols in and around Highbury Fields including the ASB team and our community safety officers. Officers will be providing crime prevention advice through leaflets drops and will be hosting community events such as Walk and Talks, in order to engage with female residents and find out where they feel unsafe and work with our partners to tackle these issues. Officers and the council are working to increase lighting in darker spaces.

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.