West Hendon

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West Hendon 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 WestHendon@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).

Darren Brain (Metropolitan Police, Sergeant, Hendon & West Hendon Safer Neighbourhoods)

Darren Brain

Sergeant

Donus Kavak (Metropolitan Police, Police Constable, west hendon ward)

Donus Kavak

Police Constable

Clayton Payne (Metropolitan Police, Police Constable, West Hendon)

Clayton Payne

Police Constable

Leo Walker (Metropolitan Police, PCSO, West Hendon)

Leo Walker

PCSO

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

Op Ophionis. Tackling drug use/supply and associated ASB and violence in and around West Hendon Broadway, NW9.

Issued 28 October 2025

Work ongoing

Actioned 28 October 2025

Theft from motor vehicle at ward hotspots.

Issued 28 October 2025

Work ongoing

Actioned 28 October 2025

Tackling theft from shop and theft from person offences Brent Cross Shopping Centre, NW4.

Issued 28 October 2025

Work ongoing

Actioned 28 October 2025

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 West Hendon are saying are the issues in the area:

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