Longthornton

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 Longthornton@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).

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 Longthornton 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

There is continuing ASB around the area of Rowan Road. This includes street drinking, begging and drug use

Regular patrols both in isolation and with partners from the council.

Drug use in parks and open spaces

We have had recent reports of drug use in open spaces and parks.

Regular patrols during times we expect to see the drug use. This has been particularly prevalent during the recent summer months.

Burglaries

Increase in reported offences. Officers will continues with actions to reduce this trend by targeting hot spot areas with hi visibility patrols. Officers will continue to follow up reported incidents with contact to the victim and local enquiries.

Victims will receive a face to face engagement to provide addition reassurance whilst offering crime prevention advice and pathways to supported services. SNT to complete pro-active shifts during the times where this is most likely to happen.

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.