Maryland

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 NEMailbox-.MarylandWard@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 Maryland 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

A trend spike issue of crime in this area and will be looked into continuously. Uniformed and plain clothed patrols will be used to target areas identified as Hot Spots within the ward. Officers will gather intelligence and information from briefings. Using CCTV to progress the identifying of offenders. Ward panel members and Cllrs will be updated with results

Conducting overt and covert operation to tackle this issue.

Drugs/Prostitution

Drug users are regularly being reported to the team to be loitering and causing ASB and nuisance within communal blocks and environs. Those who are caught causing ASB can be issued Community Protection Notices banning them from the area for up to a year.

Conducting overt policing strategy and using various methods available to tackle this issue.

ASB

Street drinkers and Prostitutes are frequenting the Clock Tower Outside Maryland station until the early hours of the morning. Complaints recieved from local residents and business owners re the noise levels and mess left behind.

Officers are conducting hi visibility patrols in the area at the times highlighted, NE Specials have been made aware and assisted in tackling the issue with patrols, and talks are ongoing with the Council enforcement team

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.