Kingsbury

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 Kingsbury.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 Kingsbury 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

Street drinking on Edgware Road ASB and alcohol fuelled violence being committed in residential areas causing distress to residents

Carry out patrols both reactive and proactive at the relevant times and days. carry out different policing tactics to both deter, detect and arrest offenders. carry out a comprehensive awareness campaign for users of the car park and affected residents of crimes. data research will be carried out to assess frequency of crimes complete with specific locations, times and days.

Drugs (using and dealing)

Ward officers to deal with drugs activity robustly. The default patrol areas should include parts of the Ward that have reported incidents of drug use and supply.

Statistical approach to identify locations, times and days of most frequency of offences to determine a suitable strategic plan to prevent and deter offences and offenders. Range of policing tactics will be used to achieve this including intelligence gathering and targeted patrols, stop/searches where appropriate. Data analysis will be carried out on a monthly basis to assess success of actions.

Begging/Vagrancy

Increased incidents of begging and intimidation from homeless people staying in the ASDA car park epecially during the autumn and winter months.

Regular patrols and joint working with local authority and Homeless charities to provide support and treatment where necessary

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.