Lea Bridge (Waltham Forest)

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Lea Bridge - Waltham Forest 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 LeaBridge-WalthamForest@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).

Sarah Jackson

Superintendent

Silvia Nicolaescu

PCSO

Paul Perversi

Inspector

Adam Richmond

Chief Inspector

Zebe Voicu

Police Constable

Adam Wellard

Sergeant

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
ASB by groups of males involved in street racing on the Argyll Estate. Groups turn up at all different times of the week and cause a nuisance by speeding, playing loud music and general ASB. Issued 14 September 2026	Stop and search, Arrest offenders, Issue ASB warnings and issuing of Section 59 warnings Actioned 14 December 2026
Complaints from Tesco security and customers regarding persistent beggars outside store Issued 14 September 2026	ASB warning / CPW / CPN / Arrest. Also joint patrol with local authority ASB officers. One particular sus was arrested number of times (Abdul NAROOT) after repeatedly breaching CPN. Actioned 14 December 2026
Reports by local residents concerning people being followed off and being robbed along with theft of bicycle in the area. Also reports of drug taking. In and around the Lee Valley Ice Rink Issued 14 September 2026	VAWG outside Lea Bridge Ice Rink Actioned 15 December 2026

Priority

Action taken

ASB by groups of males involved in street racing on the Argyll Estate. Groups turn up at all different times of the week and cause a nuisance by speeding, playing loud music and general ASB.

Issued 14 September 2026

Stop and search, Arrest offenders, Issue ASB warnings and issuing of Section 59 warnings

Actioned 14 December 2026

Complaints from Tesco security and customers regarding persistent beggars outside store

Issued 14 September 2026

ASB warning / CPW / CPN / Arrest. Also joint patrol with local authority ASB officers.
One particular sus was arrested number of times (Abdul NAROOT) after repeatedly breaching CPN.

Actioned 14 December 2026

Reports by local residents concerning people being followed off and being robbed along with theft of bicycle in the area. Also reports of drug taking. In and around the Lee Valley Ice Rink

Issued 14 September 2026

VAWG outside Lea Bridge Ice Rink

Actioned 15 December 2026

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 Lea Bridge (Waltham Forest) are saying are the issues in the area:

Agree or not? Have your say now, click here to do the survey