Abbey Road

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Abbey Road 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 AbbeyRoad@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).

Joshua Dearsley (Metropolitan Police, Sergeant, Westminster - Abbey Road & Maida Vale Wards)

Joshua Dearsley

Sergeant

Glenn O'Dea (Metropolitan Police, Inspector, North Westminster Neighbourhoods)

Glenn O'dea

Inspector

Lizeth Ramirez (Metropolitan Police, Police Constable, abbey road)

Lizeth Ramirez

Police Constable

Justin Rowe (Metropolitan Police, Police Constable, Abbey Road)

Justin Rowe

Police Constable

Clive Sarireni (Metropolitan Police Service, DWO - CYP PC, Abbey Road Ward NW8)

Clive Sarireni

DWO - CYP PC

Matthew Smith (Metropolitan Police, Chief Inspector, Westminster)

Matthew Smith

Chief Inspector

Adem Tanrikulu (Metropolitan Police, PCSO, AW Abbey Road Safer Neighbourhood)

Adem Tanrikulu

PCSO

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

Robbery and Theft - Person.

Issued 08 July 2025

To prioritise theft and robbery in the ward, particularly around schools and the Abbey Road crossing.
SNT officers will utilise the ward’s police and council CCTV units to identify and track offenders and gather evidence.
Plain clothes patrols will be considered around hot spot areas of the ward, with cross border working alongside relevant teams in other wards and boroughs to locate and arrest suspects.
‘Look Up, Look Out’ leaflets will be handed out, with this message promoted in the ward’s schools when officers attend for assemblies.

Actioned 08 July 2025

Residential Burglary.

Issued 08 July 2025

The Safer Neighbourhoods team will continue their awareness project around burglaries, particularly north of the ward.
‘Cocooning’ will continue over a wider area following a burglary incident, and night time plain clothes operations will be considered where resources allow. SNT will work with the specialist burglary team to get the best results for residents affected by burglary as we know the impact this has on victims and communities.
We will also work with colleagues around London to locate and arrest suspects outside of our ward and borough.
Home visits to provide burglary prevention advice will also be offered where time and resources allow.

Actioned 08 July 2025

Drugs & ASB.

Issued 08 July 2025

Drugs will be a focus in problem areas of the ward, particularly Wharncliffe Gardens, Blenheim Terrace and Scott Ellis Gardens.
The SNT team will build intelligence around potential users and supply, in order to best tackle this problem across the ward.
Street briefings and ‘meet the team’ events at Wharncliffe Community Hall will aim to give local residents the confidence to come and speak to officers and provide any information they have which will help build a picture of the issue.
Again, where there is enough intelligence, plain clothes operations will be planned with the support of neighbouring wards and specialist teams to disrupt drugs activity and detain offenders.

Actioned 08 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 Abbey Road are saying are the issues in the area:

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