Custom House

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 NE-SNTCustomHouse@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 Custom House 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

Robbery Specifically against youths on way to or leaving school

Overt and Covert patrols.

Youth Engagemnet

Primary School Engagement.

Beat The Police Challenge. School Talks

Drug dealing & Drug Use

Drug dealing and drug use will be an ongoing issue in all areas of London. The Team are well versed in warrant executions and will developing information for warrant applications. They will also be actively patrolling areas identified by the Ward Panel Chair and members of the public.

Significant amount of drugs recovered. In September Op ADDER: Drugs Dogs used to detect drug users and dealers in Beckton and Custom House. Many arrests made. Warrants on Beckton and Custom House Wards ongoing

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.