Squirrels Heath

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Squirrels Heath 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 SquirrelsHeath@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).

Kiran Hicks (Metropolitan Police, Police Constable, Squirrels Heath)

Kiran Hicks

Police Constable

Edward Ireland (Metropolitan Police, PCSO, Squirrels Heath)

Edward Ireland

PCSO

Andrew Meredith (Metropolitan Police, Sergeant, Squirrels Heath, Emerson Park, Rushgreen and Crowlands)

Andrew Meredith

Sergeant

Scott Riches (Metropolitan Police, Police Constable, Squirrels Heath)

Scott Riches

Police Constable

Abbie Rose-Horne (Police, Police Constable, East Area - Squirrels Heath)

Abbie Rose-Horne

Police Constable

Matt Willison (Police, Inspector, Havering Neighbourhood Policing Team)

Matt Willison

Inspector

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

Issued 05 November 2025

Operational Aim - intelligence led Enforcement activities to identify offenders and bring them to justice. Engagement and Educational initiatives to reduce risk of crime and designing out criminal opportunity.
Actions Taken - Plain Clothes and Uniformed Patrols by ward officers and the Town Centre Team around the hotspot areas

Actioned 05 November 2025

Theft of / Theft from Motor Vehicle

Issued 05 November 2025

Strategic Aim - to reduce crime, criminal opportunity and fear of crime around acquisitive crime involving vehicles.
Operational Aim - intelligence led Enforcement activities to identify offenders and bring them to justice. Engagement and Educational initiative to reduce risk of crime and designing out criminal opportunity.
Actions Taken - Day of action / Community Engagement day held with the most effected areas on the ward.

Actioned 05 November 2025

Burglary

Issued 05 November 2025

Strategic Aim - to reduce crime, criminal opportunity and fear of crime around Burglary.
Operational Aim - intelligence led Enforcement activities to identify offenders and bring them to justice. Engagement and Educational initiatives to reduce risk of crime and designing out criminal opportunity.
Actions Taken - Community engagement via stalls and walk, talk and do events.

Actioned 05 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 Squirrels Heath are saying are the issues in the area:

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Havering 'Day of Action'

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16/12/2025 12:47:11

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