Newbury

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 Newbury@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 Newbury 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

Brief description - Violent related crime particularly robbery around Seven Kings Park, Newbury Park Underpass and back entrance to Seven Kings School in Charter Avenue. School pupils and commuters are targeted for their mobile phones when they leave school and train station. During the spring and summer month’s incidents tend to increase due to longer daylight hours and greater footfall of people out and about.

Conducted high-vis foot & mobile patrols, Street briefings, leaflet dropping locally and provided reassurance to the local community. Also conducted school patrols at St Andrews Catholic School, Seven Kings School, St Margrets Church and Ley Street.

Motor Vehicle Crime

Brief description - Reduce theft of motor vehicles, including catalytic convertor thefts and theft from motor vehicles. SNT to target roads with the highest reported volume of MV crime. Analytics state Stainforth Road and Aldborough Road South had the highest number of MV crimes in the past 3 months. With more people out and about in the spring and summer months and warmer weather expected, vehicle windows are often left open, clothing, bags and laptops left inside vehicles are stolen. This is perfect for opportunists.

Conducted high visibility patrols reassuring the community and cocooning addresses affected by MV related crime. Also held Street briefings in MV related crime hotspot areas.

ASB Friars Close

Brief description - Friars Close is a Private Estate with 80 properties. Non-residents in vehicles gathering in large numbers smoking cannabis, drinking alcohol, playing loud music and littering late at night to early hours of the morning. During the warmer months incidents of ASB increase.

Conducted high visibility patrols within the area being affected by ASB and engaging with individuals frequenting the area; Street briefings have also been conducted.

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.