Hackney Central

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Hackney Central Safer Neighbourhoods Team

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 HackneyCentral@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).

Rabiah Adamu

Police Community Support Officer

Cherif Bensidhoum

PCSO

James Bishop

Sergeant

David Lamb

Inspector

Fang Lim

Local Priority Issues

We are committed to tackling the issues that matter most to local communities. Based on our conversations with residents, and the issues they have raised with us, our main priorities are:

Priority	Action taken
Working towards a reduction in Violence including with or without Injury, Robbery and Sexual Offences across the ward. Focusing in areas where women and girls feel most vulnerable. The team will conduct high visibility patrols in areas such as Hackney Downs Rd, Clarence Rd, Hackney Central Overground St and Hackney Downs Overground St and low lit street lighted areas. There will also be a distribution of crime prevention literature and advice around keeping safe and reporting incidents. Walk and Talk Community Contact sessions. Issued 28 July 2025	Officers will increase patrols across all hotspots on the ward where gang nominal tend to frequent. SNT officers will conduct patrols of hotspots where levels of violent crime have been identified and weapons sweeps joint operations with specialist search teams, joint work with other units, the council and housing enforcement officers and share intel to identify any problem areas on the ward so patrols can be tailored to deter violent crime. SNT officers will also plan plain clothes patrols to stop and search nominals and passing on intelligence. Actioned 28 July 2025
(COMMUNITY NOMINATED). During the course of the latest CAP meeting, Panel members have raised the following concerns. Drug dealers/users and street drinkers in the area of the Pembury Place, Dalston Lane, Amhurst Road and its surrounding areas has become a constant issue. This is occurring almost daily at various times. Panel members and local resident have requested police patrols. Daily patrols in problem locations. A mixture of high visibility and covert foot patrols will also be carried out. Team to work with local authority and other partners to find long term solution to curb ASB in the above mentioned areas. Issued 28 July 2025	Officers will continue to engage with the street drinkers to build positive rapport which helps when asking the groups to move on from the area. When this does not work ASB warnings, CPW, CPN, Dispersal Orders will be given in order to escalate the situation due to persistent ASB which residents and business owners complain about. Officers will link in with Project Adder and the ASB team in order to deal with this ongoing issue. Actioned 28 July 2025
(COMMUNITY NOMINATED). Ward Panel members have also agreed that Theft of/from motor vehicle crimes is an issue and should be dealt with. Hackney Central SNT will conduct and focus its patrols where there has been an increase in motor vehicle crimes and pedal cycles including E-Bikes. Officers will distribute crime prevention advice leaflets, give advice around target hardening and best practice vehicle crimes. Daily patrols in problem locations. A mixture of high visibility and covert foot patrols will also be carried out. Issued 28 July 2025	Officers will continue to inform residents about how to keep their vehicles safe and also provide face to face crime prevention advice or via leaflet drops. Officers will increase their presence now the nights are getting longer and conduct patrols on late shifts as part of community reassurance and target areas where vehicle crime is likely due to poor street lighting. Actioned 28 July 2025

Priority

Action taken

Working towards a reduction in Violence including with or without Injury, Robbery and Sexual Offences across the ward. Focusing in areas where women and girls feel most vulnerable. The team will conduct high visibility patrols in areas such as Hackney Downs Rd, Clarence Rd, Hackney Central Overground St and Hackney Downs Overground St and low lit street lighted areas.
There will also be a distribution of crime prevention literature and advice around keeping safe and reporting incidents. Walk and Talk Community Contact sessions.

Issued 28 July 2025

Officers will increase patrols across all hotspots on the ward where gang nominal tend to frequent. SNT officers will conduct patrols of hotspots where levels of violent crime have been identified and weapons sweeps joint operations with specialist search teams, joint work with other units, the council and housing enforcement officers and share intel to identify any problem areas on the ward so patrols can be tailored to deter violent crime. SNT officers will also plan plain clothes patrols to stop and search nominals and passing on intelligence.

Actioned 28 July 2025

(COMMUNITY NOMINATED). During the course of the latest CAP meeting, Panel members have raised the following concerns. Drug dealers/users and street drinkers in the area of the Pembury Place, Dalston Lane, Amhurst Road and its surrounding areas has become a constant issue. This is occurring almost daily at various times. Panel members and local resident have requested police patrols. Daily patrols in problem locations. A mixture of high visibility and covert foot patrols will also be carried out. Team to work with local authority and other partners to find long term solution to curb ASB in the above mentioned areas.

Issued 28 July 2025

Officers will continue to engage with the street drinkers to build positive rapport which helps when asking the groups to move on from the area. When this does not work ASB warnings, CPW, CPN, Dispersal Orders will be given in order to escalate the situation due to persistent ASB which residents and business owners complain about. Officers will link in with Project Adder and the ASB team in order to deal with this ongoing issue.

Actioned 28 July 2025

(COMMUNITY NOMINATED). Ward Panel members have also agreed that Theft of/from motor vehicle crimes is an issue and should be dealt with. Hackney Central SNT will conduct and focus its patrols where there has been an increase in motor vehicle crimes and pedal cycles including E-Bikes. Officers will distribute crime prevention advice leaflets, give advice around target hardening and best practice vehicle crimes. Daily patrols in problem locations. A mixture of high visibility and covert foot patrols will also be carried out.

Issued 28 July 2025

Officers will continue to inform residents about how to keep their vehicles safe and also provide face to face crime prevention advice or via leaflet drops. Officers will increase their presence now the nights are getting longer and conduct patrols on late shifts as part of community reassurance and target areas where vehicle crime is likely due to poor street lighting.

Actioned 28 July 2025

The word cloud below represents the issues raised by residents through their Local Matters survey. We take this into consideration along with discussions with stakeholders, ward panel meetings and conversations with the public when setting our key priorities

What members in Hackney Central are saying are the issues in the area:

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