Newington

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 SNTMD-.Newington@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 Newington 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

PRIORITY 1: ASB IN AND AROUND PASLEY PARK AND ESTATE DETAILS: Ward priority has been agreed by the panel members at the latest meeting. PASLEY PARK AND PASLEY ESTATE has become an ongoing focus owing to anti-social behaviour and youth concerns. ASB remains the ongoing concern and raised focus of residents on the ward. Updated at Ward Panel meeting held on 19th November 2024

ACTIONS: High visibility patrols will be targeted to deter ASB and improve community reassurance in the area. Local engagement and weapon sweeps will continue to be organised.

DRUG ISSUES WARD WIDE

PRIORITY 2: DRUG ISSUES WARD WIDE DETAILS: Ward panel members voiced concerns and agreed to drug issues across the ward being a ward priority. Drug issues are a growing local problem and have been causing widespread disturbance, impacting the sense of safety for residents. Updated at Ward Panel meeting held on 19th November 2024

ACTIONS: Additional patrols will be commenced to target intervention against drug issues associated anti-social behaviour, alongside community engagement.

Community engagement

PRIORITY 3: Community engagement DETAILS: A ward priority has been agreed by the panel members to focus on community engagement. The panel members want to see the officers more.

ACTIONS: Visibility will be improved across the ward to deter and reassure Community engagement and events will be organised to support a policing presence and residents’ sense of safety.

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.