South Hornchurch

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 Southhornchurch.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 South Hornchurch 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

Violence against the person. high visibility patrols in areas of concern to combat crime and the fear of crime, along with crime prevention advice for personal safety

Patrol Late nights, especially carparks an closed spaces alleyways. Conduct weapon sweeps in open areas. Be robust with stop and searches where grounds apply to help reduce knife/violent crime across the

violence against women and girls

Reduce violence against women and girls by arranging pop up stands with crime prevention advice personal protection products. HVP in areas pointed out to us as areas women feel unsafe

Patrol Late nights, especially carparks an closed spaces alleyways. Raise more awareness regarding the walk and talk campaign for women and girls and find innovative ways to make streets safe for women. Send out messages on OWL/Twitter to engage with women on the ward and pursued them to come forward and speak to officers.

Anti-Social Behaviour Cherry Tree Lane

Priority set by ward panel members to target the increase of ASB incidents reported on Cherry Tree Lane.

Engage with local businesses to provide reassurance and offer advice. Identify individuals involved and use the ASB legislation where appropriate.

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.