Cockfosters

Welcome to Met Engage,

We're transforming the Met to become a service that truly delivers for you.

Through our new platform Met Engage you can get to know your local officers, help shape how we police your local area and have direct access to key information and advice.

This isn't just a platform for us to tell you what we're doing in your area, it's an opportunity for you to tell us what's concerning you most so we can take action on the things that truly matter to you.

Cockfosters 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 Cockfosters@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).

Tanvi Chhabhadia

PCSO

Emily Gallacher-Hayford

Police Constable

Ryan Hill

Police Constable

Alexander Kane

Sergeant

Richard Lee

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
Burglary continues to affect the ward, especially in the Winter months. it has been decided to keep this as the first priority. Issued 26 November 2025	The team will review the overnight crimes on the ward and look for trends and establish any linked series. the team will conduct plain clothes and uniformed pro active patrols, we will offer crime prevention visits, and distributed relevant crime prevention advice via met engage, we will continue to do this and will be concentrating on prevention. Actioned 26 February 2026
In response to a spike in thefts at the BP and sainsburies Issued 26 November 2025	we will work closely with the venues, identifying CCTV opportunities for investigations and actively seek to bring offenders to justice Actioned 26 February 2026
In response to theft from work vans and theft of high value keyless motor vehicles, . Issued 26 November 2025	we will continue to monitor hotspot areas via ANPR / CCTV, we will also distribute relevant crime prevention advice to victims Actioned 26 February 2026

Priority

Action taken

Burglary continues to affect the ward, especially in the Winter months. it has been decided to keep this as the first priority.

Issued 26 November 2025

The team will review the overnight crimes on the ward and look for trends and establish any linked series. the team will conduct plain clothes and uniformed pro active patrols, we will offer crime prevention visits, and distributed relevant crime prevention advice via met engage, we will continue to do this and will be concentrating on prevention.

Actioned 26 February 2026

In response to a spike in thefts at the BP and sainsburies

Issued 26 November 2025

we will work closely with the venues, identifying CCTV opportunities for investigations and actively seek to bring offenders to justice

Actioned 26 February 2026

In response to theft from work vans and theft of high value keyless motor vehicles, .

Issued 26 November 2025

we will continue to monitor hotspot areas via ANPR / CCTV, we will also distribute relevant crime prevention advice to victims

Actioned 26 February 2026

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 Cockfosters are saying are the issues in the area:

Agree or not? Have your say now, click here to do the survey