Hackney Downs

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.hackneydowns@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 Hackney Downs 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

Working to achieve a reduction of violence on the Ward: Gang related and Violence against another person, in particular in relation to women and girls following reports of suspicious males and incidents of sexual harassment in the vicinity of DOWNS PARK. Reports of gang ride-outs into rival territory leading to violent incidents.

High visibility patrols to show presence and deter crime. Targeted stop and search based on intel from the community to remove those with drugs and weapons from the streets.

DRINK & DRUG RELATED ASB

Focusing on high volume of antisocial behaviour being reported by residents who live on the roads surrounding DOWNS PARK fuelled by street-drinking and drug dealing in the local area.

Partnership working and increased patrols in areas affected to reduce numbers of those engaging in ASB and its impact on the community.

THEFT FROM VEHICLE

Focusing on theft from vehicles after various reports of vehicles having been broken into and belongings taken.

Social media campaigns offering crime prevention advice along with door-to-door knocks, leaflet drops and patrols.

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.