Northbury

Welcome to Met Engage,

We're transforming the Met to become a service that truly delivers for you.

Through our new platform Met Engage you can get to know your local officers, help shape how we police your local area and have direct access to key information and advice.

This isn't just a platform for us to tell you what we're doing in your area, it's an opportunity for you to tell us what's concerning you most so we can take action on the things that truly matter to you.

Northbury 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 Northbury@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).

Inga Dijokaite (Metropolitan Police, PCSO, East Area)

Inga Dijokaite

PCSO

Wajahat Khan (Metropolitan Police, Police Constable, SNT Northbury ward East Area)

Wajahat Khan

Police Constable

Gary Miller (Metropolitan Police, PCSO, Northbury Ward - Barking)

Gary Miller

PCSO

Joseph Pocknell (Metropolitan Police, PCSO, Abbey )

Joseph Pocknell

PCSO

Robert Welham (Metropolitan Police, PCSO, Abbey and Northbury)

Robert Welham

PCSO

JOHN WOODS (Metropolitan Police, PCSO, NORTHBURY SAFER NEIGHBOURHOOD TEAM BARKING)

John Woods

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

Entire Ward to reduce, prevent, detect and deter incidents of violence against women and girls in locality.

Issued 14 November 2025

Working in conjunction with the TCT, Officers have been conducting VAWG patrols along with targeted stops and joint patrols with CET team LBBD to facilitate increased visibility.

Actioned 14 November 2025

Drug use/ activity/ dealing, encampment leading to VAWG, ASB an Criminal outcomes linked to drug/alcohol misuse and ASB incidents. Working with Community Safety Partnership, residents, management companies and ASB LBBD Team to reduce incidents at these locations.

Issued 14 November 2025

Increased patrols and visibility including additional joint working and patrols with LBBD teams.

Actioned 14 November 2025

Reduce, prevent, deter, detect incidents of robbery and VWI in locality through co-ordinated tasking and proactivity in deployments, visibility, engagement and enforcement tactics within locality. Working with local community to build up intelligence to Achilles' Heel those committing offences including partnership with Community Safety Teams, Housing, Youth Offending Service, Outreach, Probation and Detached Workers to tackle incidents of note.

Issued 14 November 2025

Joint working with key partners and community to target known offenders committing offences, and to work with design out crime officers and local authority LBBD to prevent, deter, detect and reduce incidents of note. Includes increased visibility and plain clothes patrols and further implementation where possible of the use of Criminal Behaviour Orders and community protection ASB legislation.

Actioned 14 November 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 Northbury are saying are the issues in the area:

Latest Alerts

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Stop & Search leads to arrests and 17 year old boy charged and remanded to court with possessing an imitation firearm

A recent stop and search by patrolling officers from your local response team lead to the arrest of ...

Metropolitan Police
15/12/2025 09:42:01

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Burglary

Please remain alert to recent burglary activity in the area and take simple steps to keep your home ...

Metropolitan Police
11/12/2025 14:49:42

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VAWG meeting

Good afternoon resident, On Wednesday, 3 December a partnership meeting took place to discuss...

Metropolitan Police
10/12/2025 14:52:35

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Local Priorities Burglary Update

Dear Resident Thank you for taking the local priority survey recently, your ongoing feedback about l...

Metropolitan Police
10/12/2025 10:45:44

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Your Met for London in Barking & Dagenham

Today the Met is launching the next phase of the New Met for London plan – and we are building on a ...

Metropolitan Police
09/12/2025 15:09:51

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Met engage handouts with members of the public

Good afternoon, Your local neighbourhood officers were working together within the Ward today, eng...

Metropolitan Police
07/12/2025 14:34:14

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Crime Prevention Stall : Mon 08 Dec 08:00

On the 8th of December, Officers will be located at BARKING STATION to discuss matters relating to V...

Metropolitan Police
07/12/2025 08:24:47

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Day 13 - Violence Against Women And Girls (VAWG) - VAWG Engagement stall at East Street, Barking from 1400 hours on 07/12/2025

Dear Resident, Thank you for taking the local priority survey recently, your ongoing feedback about ...

Metropolitan Police
06/12/2025 16:59:13

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St Margret's Church Ward Panel Meeting (3 months)

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