Dalston

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 CEMailbox.Dalston@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 Dalston 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

Gillet Square - Class A drug use, supply offences, as well as isolated incidences of violence associated with the consumption and supply of Class A drugs. Previous serious violence in the area has been fuelled by drug related crime.

Robust enforcement of drug related offences in residential areas. High visibility patrols to deter criminality and communication with local residents groups to identify offenders.

ASB and Street Drinking

ASB and Street Drinking around Gillet Square Liaise Youth Clubs to divert youth ASB and safeguard vulnerable young people.

High Visibility Patrols in the area working with local authority enforcement officers. Work with local youth services to set up semi-regular engagement events. Directed engagement

VAWG

Incidences of severe ASB and acquisitive crime related to Class A drug users on residential roads in the north of the ward as well as VAWG offences. Local businesses are experiencing adverse effects due to the high concentration of Class A users and others that are intimidated by the presence of those believed to be supplying Class A drugs.

High-visibility patrols in the area, in addition to issuing ASB/CPW/CPN to individuals found engaging in VAWG and ASB on the footprint. Liaising with local council in roll-out of Neighbourhood Watch programme in the area.

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.