Bridge

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 Bridge.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 Bridge 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

Location: Snakes Lane East and Woodford Station Problems: Concerns were raised by the community about robberies and knife related crime within the Woodford Area, in Snakes Lane East and Woodford Station

Requires: community engagement, increased police presence in the area.. Officers will continue to find innovative ways to tackle this problem over the following month to ensure no reoccurrence, but we ask the public to report any signs of potential drug dealing, no matter how small it may seem.

BURGLARIES AND ROBBERIES - TOP PRIORITY

Location: St Anthony Avenue and Chigwell Road Problem: Concerns were raised by the community about recent robberies within the Woodford Area, in Chigwell Road and St Anthony Avenue. Residential and business premises Burglaries and attempted Burglaries, no linked series. Areas: Repton Park and Prospect Rd

Street briefing conducted Requires: Foot and Police Vehicles patrols, reassurance visits within the local residents, increased Police presence in the areas most affected. Officers will continue to find innovative ways to tackle this problem over the following month to ensure no reoccurrence, but we ask the public to report any signs of potential drug dealing, no matter how small it may seem.

ASB, DRUGS DEALING - PRIORITY

Location: Baddow Close,Copford Close,Springfield Gardens,Danbury Way. Problem: Concerns were raised by the community in regards to drug dealing and youths smoking namely cannabis within the Woodford Area, in particular Copford Close, Danbury Way and Baddow Close.

Officers will continue to find innovative ways to tackle this problem over the following month to ensure no reoccurrence, but we ask the public to report any signs of potential drug dealing, no matter how small it may seem. Stop and Search was conducted at Copford Close. As a result, Com Res and ASB issued. Requires: Foot/vehicle patrols and increased police presence. CCTV application has been approved and will be in use over the next two weeks to monitor the current ASB and Drug dealing taking place.

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.