Churchfields

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 SNTJI-Churchfields@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 Churchfields 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

At this time of year there is usually an increase in robberies and burglaries in the area due to the nights being longer

Hotspot foot patrols, unmarked car patrols and plain clothes patrols. Reassurance visits to victims and crime prevention advice – issuing personal safety alarms to vulnerable individuals. Liaising with Woodbridge Secondary and Churchfields Juniour Schools. Woodbridge School management met the Commissioner Mr Rowley during the new Police Hub opening day. Churchfields Junior – annual engagement with power point presentations was organised. Liaising with Safer Schools Team regarding ongoing issues. Regular Street Briefings related to Robberies. Weapon Sweeps targeting hidden weapons. Social media engagaments.

Motor Vehicle Crime

Recent crime figures have shown that Churchfields Ward has suffered from increased Motor Vehicle Crime, fly tipping and graffiti located on the South-West side of the Ward and more specifically Grove Road area

Street briefing and more Police Presence, discussion on every Ward Panel Meeting, deploying of a new CCTV camera, regular Police National Computer checks, social media engagements and retrieval of possible and identified as stolen and involved in a crime activity vehicles

Orchard Estate - Drug dealing and usage

There is an increase in the amont of anti social behaviour in and around the Orchard Estate

New Police Hub with increased Police presence in the area, continuous leasing with other partnership agencies from Redbridge council and implementing of partnership working operations. Proactive patrols resulting in stop and searches of the individuals responsible, continuous social media engagements, regular Street Briefing Events and close monitoring of the CCTV in operation and deploying of the mobile CCTV unit whenever possible

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.