West Harrow

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 SNTQA-.WestHarrow@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 West Harrow 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

West Harrow Rec: address concerns in West Harrow Rec following two knife related incidents (one being GBH) and also incidents of exposure at same location during daylight hours, often 1200-1400 and subsequent VAWG concerns

Walk and Talk events held regularly in park. Regular patrol plan but also increased plain clothes activity in attempt to identify suspect for exposure. VAWG targeted Walk & Talks held, stolen vehicle recovered

Anti-social behaviour - Shaftesbury Circle

Work alongside MPS traffic to reduce instances of anti-social driving in area. Excess speed, noise from engines/speed bumps all reported with footage from local resident highlighting several (not reported) road traffic collisions. Often at peak traffic hours especially 1600-1900 on weekdays

Link in with local CCTV opportunity. DWO speaking with MO8 re opportunities for specialist assistance/speed awareness work and Councillors apprised

ASB - Shaftesbury Circle

Reports of ASB in the area of Shaftesbury Circle, namely use of NOS canisters in vehicles parked in the vicinity, group of males loitering outside local businesses and residential addresses in late hours causing ASB.

DWOs to conduct regular patrols to prevent and deter any Anti-Social Behaviour and to deal with individuals causing ASB (issuing of Community Protection Warning). Officers are in contact with local businesses to ensure right support is given to the residents.

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.