East Finchley

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 EastFinchley.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 East Finchley 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

Violence Against Women and Girls in Parks and open spaces Tackling violence against women and girls deterring and detecting crime, providing visibility and reassurance and increase public confidence in policing

Hi-Vis patrols along the High road and the Train station. Re-assuring women and Girls though engagement. Linking up with the local Pubs on the safe place scheme and giving encouragements

Vehicle Crime

Increase in vehicle crimes in certain areas of the community. This is mainly due to the fact that the community is close to the A406 and the nearby streets are the ones that fall victim to these crimes

Provide a visible police presence in identified Hot-spot areas for prevention and public reassurance. Using Social Media to give crime prevetion advice where its possible to do so.

Robbery (street)

ROBBERY This has been opened due to a spate of robberies over the last couple of weeks The main aims of this priority are to: * Reduce mobile phone snatches * Improve crime prevention * Improve public awareness on the problem

Increase foot patrols around hotspot area; High Road N2, areas around the Tube station. Link up with school officers on educating the local schools on crime prevention methods.

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.