Woodside (Haringey)

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Woodside - Haringey 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 Woodside-Haringey@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).

Faria Begum

Police Constable

Andrew Hunter Pires

Police Constable

Asad Ikram

Inspector

Monika Malecka

Police Sergeant

Dimitrios Rakos

PCSO

Anthony Toporowskyj

Inspector

Ellie Wilmot

Police Sergeant

Ben Woolf

Police Constable

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
Violence Related Priority - Robbery around Wood Green High Road. Issued 24 September 2025	Targeted plain clothes and hi visibility patrols along and around the High Road, N22. Operation Fineful is a passive drugs dog deployment operation which is being run at Wood Green Underground Station. This operation so far has resulted in multiple arrests, including arrests for serious and violent offences as well as stop and searches which have resulted in drugs and weapons being recovered. This operation also allows for officers and PCSOs to be deployed around the underground station on the High Road and the surrounding area. Actioned 25 October 2025
Anti-Social Behaviour Related Priority - Anti-social Behaviour (ASB) around Woodside Park, George Meehan House and Glendale Avenue. Issued 24 September 2025	Targeted plain clothes and hi visibility patrols throughout Woodside Park, Glendale Avenue and outside of George Meehan House. Issuing of ASB warnings, Community Protection Warnings (CPW’s) and Community Protection Notices (CPN’s) to repeat individuals causing ASB. Engaging with individuals inside of Woodside Park and conducting stop searches if grounds exist. Issuing Section 59 warnings to any individual using their vehicle to cause ASB along Glendale Avenue and outside of George Meehan House. Actioned 25 October 2025
Drug Related Priority - Drug dealing and Anti Social Behaviour (ASB) on Commerce Road. Issued 24 September 2025	Targeted plain clothes and hi visibility patrols on Commerce Road. Issuing of ASB warnings, Community Protection Warnings (CPW’s) and Community Protection Notices (CPN’s) to repeat individuals causing ASB. Engaging with individuals and businesses on Commerce Road and conducting stop searches if grounds exist. Actioned 25 October 2025

Priority

Action taken

Violence Related Priority - Robbery around Wood Green High Road.

Issued 24 September 2025

Targeted plain clothes and hi visibility patrols along and around the High Road, N22. Operation Fineful is a passive drugs dog deployment operation which is being run at Wood Green Underground Station. This operation so far has resulted in multiple arrests, including arrests for serious and violent offences as well as stop and searches which have resulted in drugs and weapons being recovered. This operation also allows for officers and PCSOs to be deployed around the underground station on the High Road and the surrounding area.

Actioned 25 October 2025

Anti-Social Behaviour Related Priority - Anti-social Behaviour (ASB) around Woodside Park, George Meehan House and Glendale Avenue.

Issued 24 September 2025

Targeted plain clothes and hi visibility patrols throughout Woodside Park, Glendale Avenue and outside of George Meehan House. Issuing of ASB warnings, Community Protection Warnings (CPW’s) and Community Protection Notices (CPN’s) to repeat individuals causing ASB. Engaging with individuals inside of Woodside Park and conducting stop searches if grounds exist. Issuing Section 59 warnings to any individual using their vehicle to cause ASB along Glendale Avenue and outside of George Meehan House.

Actioned 25 October 2025

Drug Related Priority - Drug dealing and Anti Social Behaviour (ASB) on Commerce Road.

Issued 24 September 2025

Targeted plain clothes and hi visibility patrols on Commerce Road. Issuing of ASB warnings, Community Protection Warnings (CPW’s) and Community Protection Notices (CPN’s) to repeat individuals causing ASB. Engaging with individuals and businesses on Commerce Road and conducting stop searches if grounds exist.

Actioned 25 October 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 Woodside (Haringey) are saying are the issues in the area:

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