Hoxton West

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Hoxton West 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 HoxtonWest@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).

Nicholas Bolton

Sergeant

Lewis Brooks

Caroline Burke

PCSO

Stephen Dudley

Dedicated Ward Officer

Aysel Durmaz

PCSO

David Lamb

Inspector

Callum Murray

Dedicated Ward Officer

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
Drug Supply Target hotspots and prolific offenders involved in drug supply Issued 30 September 2025	Drug supply operation - One arrest and several ASB warnings issued Actioned 27 June 2025
Burglary Proactive visible policing around areas suffering with residential burglary Issued 30 September 2025	Crime prevention - changing to night shifts in order to proactively patrol Actioned 29 August 2025
HOXTON WEST SNT in relation to the drug dealing issues around the MURRAY GROVE N1 vicinity. Local knowledge by the SNT has indicated that drug dealers, who appear to originate from ISLINGTON, loiter throughout the day outside the WENLOCK CAFE. They then appear to be involved in drug transactions in the surrounding areas. It is not known if this is Class A or Class B drugs which are involved. Information received has also indicated that gang members loiter at night, predominately around the BLETCHLEY COURT N1 vicinity. Information has also indicated that residents are finding the area intimidating late at night due to the presence of males loitering around in the area. Issued 30 September 2025	Groups of youths gather in WENLOCK ST and often this area is used for phone snatches ASB is also an issue in this area. SNT do proactive patrols and very often change shifts to later shifts to take into account when these problems are occurring and issuing ASB WARNINGS, CPW, CPN and also arresting individuals where crime is committed. Actioned 30 September 2025

Priority

Action taken

Drug Supply
Target hotspots and prolific offenders involved in drug supply

Issued 30 September 2025

Drug supply operation - One arrest and several ASB warnings issued

Actioned 27 June 2025

Burglary
Proactive visible policing around areas suffering with residential burglary

Issued 30 September 2025

Crime prevention - changing to night shifts in order to proactively patrol

Actioned 29 August 2025

HOXTON WEST SNT in relation to the drug dealing issues around the MURRAY GROVE N1 vicinity. Local knowledge by the SNT has indicated that drug dealers, who appear to originate from ISLINGTON, loiter throughout the day outside the WENLOCK CAFE. They then appear to be involved in drug transactions in the surrounding areas. It is not known if this is Class A or Class B drugs which are involved. Information received has also indicated that gang members loiter at night, predominately around the BLETCHLEY COURT N1 vicinity. Information has also indicated that residents are finding the area intimidating late at night due to the presence of males loitering around in the area.

Issued 30 September 2025

Groups of youths gather in WENLOCK ST and often this area is used for phone snatches
ASB is also an issue in this area.
SNT do proactive patrols and very often change shifts to later shifts to take into account when these problems are occurring and issuing ASB WARNINGS, CPW, CPN and also arresting individuals where crime is committed.

Actioned 30 September 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 Hoxton West are saying are the issues in the area:

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