Northwood Hills

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 SNTWAMailbox-.NorthwoodHills@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 Northwood Hills 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 RELATED CRIME : Violence against Women and Girls - VAWG – Northwood Hills Safer Neighbourhood Team is committed in the reduction in violent crime including in those crime committed against women and girls. This will be done by joint working with partner agencies and proactive policing approach.

Northwood Hills SNT officers are conducting street briefings to advise Women and Girls regarding personal safety. Walk and talk events have been held. Locations where lone females may feel vulnerable have been patrolled. Officers will liaise with Women's Groups in the area in order to identify 'hot spot' areas so more targeted patrols can be carried out.

Anti-Social Behaviour

Reports of ongoing begging in the area of Joel Street, Northwood Hills.

Targeted patrols by ward officers are conducted on Joel Street. The team continue to maintain a high visibility presence during daytime/shopping hours times to safeguard shopper, residents and users of the area.

Drug dealing Joel Street, Waller Drive, Alandell Drive and Briarwood Drive

Preventing the damaging effects of drug dealing from both the dealers of drugs and users of drugs.

Uniformed and plain clothes in the area, utilising stop and search powers. Searching intelligence indicies to understand the problem in the area. Speaking to drug users on a regular basis to offer them advice and where neccessary utilising police powers.

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.