St Alban's

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 Romfordtown.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 St Alban's 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

Continued policing emphasise on robbery.

Patrolling the local areas including subways during the hours young people leave school. Targeted Robbery patrols are ongoing in conjunction with the Town Centre team’s, with hotspots identified and then patrolled during key times.

Drugs/Drugs paraphernalia and ASB

To disrupt and deter drug users taking and leaving their drug paraphernalia in public areas and area's identified for targeted patrols

Concentrate on resolving Drug complaints caused by users consuming their drugs in public view, including littering of used paraphernalia by issuing appropriate orders The team have completed a joint op with Operation Adder whereby they seek to put referrals on for those who use drugs to try and get them to engage in rehabilitation. A day of action has also taken place with officers looking to issue Community protection warning’s and Notices with restrictions added

Vehicle Crime

To target areas either being affected by motor vehicle crime or identified as a priority area

Motor vehicle crime days of actions to be held with crime prevention advice and house to house visits.

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.