Fairlop

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Fairlop 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 Fairlop@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).

Syed Ali

Police Constable

Kamini Howes

Sergeant

Sita Johal

PCSO

Kim Stanley

Police Constable

Luke Stevens

Police Constable

Nicholas Sutton

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
Barkingside High Street has seen a regular increase from youths involved in ASB and youth violence. There has been a decrease in crimes whereby knives and weapons have been used, on the high street, however, ward panel members want this to stay as priority linked in with Violence against women and girls as a concern. Team to carry out regular Hi-Viz patrols and interact with the school children in the area. Focussing mainly on school exit times. Issued 15 October 2025	Fairlop ward officers to patrol hotspot areas, on the ward, carry out high Hi-Viz patrols and interact with school children, this has been ongoing, when youths are coming to meet other schools youths, on Barkingside High Street. Regular weapon sweeps will be ongoing in this vicinity. Also increase in VAWG patrols to be regularly implemented on the High Street and Hainault Tube Station, to provide crime prevention advice. Further patrols in open spaces, working with local council and other partners in making open spaces safer. Actioned 01 November 2025
ASB/Drugs/prostitution - Trehearn/Trelawney/Saltash Alleyways This priority has been changed from burglary as burglaries are at an all time low. This issue was brought up in ward panel meeting. Smoking drugs in the alleyways most days, drug dealers congregating and smoking. Prostitution was also mentioned going on in the alleyway behind the properties of Trehearn. The council are looking to clear the fly tipping which stopped for a while but has now started again. The councillor also mentioned implementation of speed bumps on Trehearn due to the speeding of cars. Issued 15 October 2025	Fairlop ward officers will be carrying out regular patrols in the alleyways of Trehearn, Trelawney and Saltash, there is an alleyway shaped as a H runs behind these streets, resident have complained of recent drug dealing, smoking and prostitution, and fly tipping we will patrol this area on every shift. Officers will be monitoring, conducting patrols and speaking with residents in the vicinity. Actioned 01 November 2025
This priority remains the same as the past ones due to being ratified by the most recent ward panel as it is still a concern that the residents feel SNT should be focusing on: Reduction of theft of motor vehicle & theft from motor vehicle on key streets on the ward (Hughes Road Estate & surrounding) over the next three months. In accordance of problem orientated policing. Many streets have been affected with all types of vehicle crimes. Recent crimes recorded show streets affected are Hazelbrouk, Benrek and Fullwell Avenue. New North Road, and Redbridge Sports Centre also affected. Ward panel members would like to keep this priority for a long time. Issued 15 October 2025	High visibility patrols have been conducted in Redbridge sports centre, due numerous thefts from motor vehicles, mainly the catalytic convertors being stolen. Advice given to management and staff and leaflets provided on advice to prevent this from happening. In our contact sessions we have and will continue to give our crime prevention material on car prevention crime. The areas where the vehicle crime has been significant has been the Redbridge Sports Centre, The Power League, and Fencepiece Road. Extra patrols of the affected streets at the specific times they have been reported in a covert manner & high visibility patrols. Partnership working with the council to make residents aware of crime prevention tactics plus provide reassurance. S - Reduce the number of Theft of motor vehicle & Theft from motor vehicle M - Use crime statistics to measure crimes occurrence A - Two main roads within the ward can be targeted R - Councillors and members of the public have identified these roads T – Over the next three months before the next ward panel meetings Actioned 01 November 2025

Priority

Action taken

Barkingside High Street has seen a regular increase from youths involved in ASB and youth violence. There has been a decrease in crimes whereby knives and weapons have been used, on the high street, however, ward panel members want this to stay as priority linked in with Violence against women and girls as a concern.
Team to carry out regular Hi-Viz patrols and interact with the school children in the area. Focussing mainly on school exit times.

Issued 15 October 2025

Fairlop ward officers to patrol hotspot areas, on the ward, carry out high Hi-Viz patrols and interact with school children, this has been ongoing, when youths are coming to meet other schools youths, on Barkingside High Street. Regular weapon sweeps will be ongoing in this vicinity.
Also increase in VAWG patrols to be regularly implemented on the High Street and Hainault Tube Station, to provide crime prevention advice.
Further patrols in open spaces, working with local council and other partners in making open spaces safer.

Actioned 01 November 2025

ASB/Drugs/prostitution - Trehearn/Trelawney/Saltash Alleyways
This priority has been changed from burglary as burglaries are at an all time low.
This issue was brought up in ward panel meeting. Smoking drugs in the alleyways most days, drug dealers congregating and smoking.
Prostitution was also mentioned going on in the alleyway behind the properties of Trehearn. The council are looking to clear the fly tipping which stopped for a while but has now started again. The councillor also mentioned implementation of speed bumps on Trehearn due to the speeding of cars.

Issued 15 October 2025

Fairlop ward officers will be carrying out regular patrols in the alleyways of Trehearn, Trelawney and Saltash, there is an alleyway shaped as a H runs behind these streets, resident have complained of recent drug dealing, smoking and prostitution, and fly tipping we will patrol this area on every shift.
Officers will be monitoring, conducting patrols and speaking with residents in the vicinity.

Actioned 01 November 2025

This priority remains the same as the past ones due to being ratified by the most recent ward panel as it is still a concern that the residents feel SNT should be focusing on: Reduction of theft of motor vehicle & theft from motor vehicle on key streets on the ward (Hughes Road Estate & surrounding) over the next three months. In accordance of problem orientated policing.

Many streets have been affected with all types of vehicle crimes. Recent crimes recorded show streets affected are Hazelbrouk, Benrek and Fullwell Avenue. New North Road, and Redbridge Sports Centre also affected. Ward panel members would like to keep this priority for a long time.

Issued 15 October 2025

High visibility patrols have been conducted in Redbridge sports centre, due numerous thefts from motor vehicles, mainly the catalytic convertors being stolen. Advice given to management and staff and leaflets provided on advice to prevent this from happening. In our contact sessions we have and will continue to give our crime prevention material on car prevention crime. The areas where the vehicle crime has been significant has been the Redbridge Sports Centre, The Power League, and Fencepiece Road.

Extra patrols of the affected streets at the specific times they have been reported in a covert manner & high visibility patrols. Partnership working with the council to make residents aware of crime prevention tactics plus provide reassurance.

S - Reduce the number of Theft of motor vehicle & Theft from motor vehicle
M - Use crime statistics to measure crimes occurrence
A - Two main roads within the ward can be targeted
R - Councillors and members of the public have identified these roads
T – Over the next three months before the next ward panel meetings

Actioned 01 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 Fairlop are saying are the issues in the area:

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