Fairlop

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 Fairlop.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 Fairlop 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

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.

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.

ASB/Drugs/prostitution - Trehearn/Trelawney/Saltash Alleyways

This priority has been changed from burglary as burglaries are all time low. This issue was brought up in ward panel meeting. Smoking drugs in the alleyways most days, drug dealers hanging again 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 now has started again. The councillor also mentioned implementation of speed bumps on Trehearn due to the speeding of cars.

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

Theft from Motor Vehicle

There has recent surge of motor vehicle crime on the Hughes Road Estate. Many streets have been affected with all types of vehicle crimes. Recent crimes recorded show streets affected, Hazelbrouk, Benrek, Fullwell Avenue. New North Road, and Redbridge Sports Centre. Ward panel members would like to keep this priority for a long time.

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.

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.