Plaistow 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 NEMailbox.SNTPlaistowSouth@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 Plaistow 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

The ward has seen an increase in general vehicle crime including theft of and theft from motor vehicles, inclduing a number of stolen vehicles being dumped across the ward.

Working closely with other UK Police Forces to share intelligence around vehicle crime and work to bring identified offenders to justice. More proactive vehicle stops and patrols of known hotspots.

ASB

ASB has been reported across the ward with Newham General Hospital and Newham Leisure Centre reported as a main focul point for ASB activity in the late evening / early hours of the morning.

Uniform and plain clothes patrols Patrol in and around the hospital to reduce the increase in ASB, cycle thefts and robberies

NewVic College / Youth Engagement

Increased number of complaints around youths congregating in mass outside of the college causing noise related ASB and preventing residents from safely passing the college due to blockages of the pavement and bus stop areas.

Introduction of a permanent safer schools officer at NewVic College. Inproved relationship building with the college and staff. Increased patrols during college kick out times.

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.