Colville

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Colville 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 Colville@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).

Dawn Baxter

Darren Chaplin

Melissa Charles

Police Constable

Kenneth Gibbs

PCSO

Rahul Gorasia

Police Constable

Shayan Hassan-Bigi

Police Constable

Charlotte Legg

Inspector

Martin Robinson

Sergeant

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
Violence related priority S: To reduce violence across the ward of Colville M: Measured by the number of such crimes reported to police. A: This can be achieved by operations targeting violence against the person hotspot areas, high-visibility foot and cycle patrols, targeted use of pulse patrols using intelligence led policing to identify hotspot areas. R: This issue has been prevalent across Colville, and following working groups with our Ward Panel members and our internal and external partners, it has been identified as an issue of concern to local residents. T: This will be measured and reviewed at the next WP meeting (every three months). Issued 16 July 2025	Officers have been conducting both Hi-Viz and plain clothed patrols on the ward to reduce violence related offences. Officers have been completing OP Martello patrols on Friday and Saturday evenings. This initiative is intelligence led and will focus on officers being in a certain location on the ward for a period of time to help reduce crime in that specific area. Ladbroke Grove and Portobello Road are the areas that will be patrolled at given times. Actioned 25 July 2025
Drugs S: To reduce drug related offences across the ward of Colville M: Measured by the number of such crimes reported to police, and relevant intelligence reports received. A: This can be achieved by intelligence led hotspot-based operations, and by completing warrants targeting addresses that have been linked to using, producing or selling controlled substances. We will also work with partner agencies to close addresses linked to drug misuse. R: This issue has been prevalent across Colville for a period of time, and following working groups with our Ward Panel members and our internal and external partners, it has been identified as an issue of concern to local residents. T: This will be measured and reviewed at the next WP meeting (every three months). Issued 16 July 2025	Officers have been patrolling via intelligence led hotspot-based areas on the ward to reduce drug related offences on the ward. Officer will continue to review intelligence reports received and look to complete operations linked to drug related offences. Actioned 20 July 2025
Burglary S: To reduce burglary offences across the ward of Colville M: Measured by the number of such crimes reported to police. A: This can be achieved by intelligence led hotspot-based policing, along with using said intelligence to identify trends in offending. We will also continue to signpost crime prevention advice, and offer guidance on target-hardening to reduce the potential of opportunist offenders. R: This is an issue that is of great concern to residents across RBKC. Burglary also falls in line with our partner agencies priorities across the Borough and remains a relevant topic of our Ward Panel. As such, it remains a priority. T: This will be measured and reviewed at the next WP meeting (every three months). Issued 16 July 2025	Officers have been patrolling hotspot areas with high-visibility foot and cycle patrols. Following working groups with our Ward Panel members and our internal and external partners, officers have been cocooning locations of recent and historic burglaries to promote a new initiative named Selecta DNA. This initiative allows residents to purchase the product and mark their property with a DNA kit unique to them. This initiative works alongside the target hardening and crime prevention advice and guidance given by officers. Actioned 23 July 2025

Priority

Action taken

Violence related priority
S: To reduce violence across the ward of Colville
M: Measured by the number of such crimes reported to police.
A: This can be achieved by operations targeting violence against the person hotspot areas, high-visibility foot and cycle patrols, targeted use of pulse patrols using intelligence led policing to identify hotspot areas.
R: This issue has been prevalent across Colville, and following working groups with our Ward Panel members and our internal and external partners, it has been identified as an issue of concern to local residents.
T: This will be measured and reviewed at the next WP meeting (every three months).

Issued 16 July 2025

Officers have been conducting both Hi-Viz and plain clothed patrols on the ward to reduce violence related offences. Officers have been completing OP Martello patrols on Friday and Saturday evenings. This initiative is intelligence led and will focus on officers being in a certain location on the ward for a period of time to help reduce crime in that specific area. Ladbroke Grove and Portobello Road are the areas that will be patrolled at given times.

Actioned 25 July 2025

Drugs
S: To reduce drug related offences across the ward of Colville
M: Measured by the number of such crimes reported to police, and relevant intelligence reports received.
A: This can be achieved by intelligence led hotspot-based operations, and by completing warrants targeting addresses that have been linked to using, producing or selling controlled substances. We will also work with partner agencies to close addresses linked to drug misuse.
R: This issue has been prevalent across Colville for a period of time, and following working groups with our Ward Panel members and our internal and external partners, it has been identified as an issue of concern to local residents.
T: This will be measured and reviewed at the next WP meeting (every three months).

Issued 16 July 2025

Officers have been patrolling via intelligence led hotspot-based areas on the ward to reduce drug related offences on the ward. Officer will continue to review intelligence reports received and look to complete operations linked to drug related offences.

Actioned 20 July 2025

Burglary
S: To reduce burglary offences across the ward of Colville
M: Measured by the number of such crimes reported to police.
A: This can be achieved by intelligence led hotspot-based policing, along with using said intelligence to identify trends in offending. We will also continue to signpost crime prevention advice, and offer guidance on target-hardening to reduce the potential of opportunist offenders.
R: This is an issue that is of great concern to residents across RBKC. Burglary also falls in line with our partner agencies priorities across the Borough and remains a relevant topic of our Ward Panel. As such, it remains a priority.
T: This will be measured and reviewed at the next WP meeting (every three months).

Issued 16 July 2025

Officers have been patrolling hotspot areas with high-visibility foot and cycle patrols. Following working groups with our Ward Panel members and our internal and external partners, officers have been cocooning locations of recent and historic burglaries to promote a new initiative named Selecta DNA. This initiative allows residents to purchase the product and mark their property with a DNA kit unique to them. This initiative works alongside the target hardening and crime prevention advice and guidance given by officers.

Actioned 23 July 2025

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 Colville are saying are the issues in the area:

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