Forest Gate South

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 ForestGateSouth.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 Forest Gate South 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

Prostitution/Safeguarding/Violence against women and girls

Engaging with sex workers during patrols, referring them to outreach services where possible

Reduce drug dealing/ drug use

Gathering and collating intelligence related to drug dealing and drug use

Overt and Covert patrols. Problem solving by working with Newham Council to design out areas that facilitate ASB.

ASB Romford Road

There have been reports of ASB within this area, specifically violence with injury relating to drug use and street drinking

High visibility patrols and attending community engagements. Those causing ASB will be issued with a Community Protection Notice.

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.