London Fields

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.LondonFields@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 London Fields 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 Theft from Person/ Theft of Mobile Phones/Theft from MV

High visibility patrols to show presence and deter crime in hotspot areas. Targeted patrols and stop & search based on intelligence from the community. Cocooning Vistits to educate/give crime prevention advice. Regular Community Events to deliver crime prevention advice and build trust and confidence.

Drugs / Supply / Possession

Working to achieve a reduction of drug supply / dealing on the ward. Also ASB caused by Drug dealing, supply, Possession.

High visibility patrols to show presence and deter crime. Execute warrants at addresses identified by intel that are involved in dealing ans supplying drugs. Targeted stop and search based on intel from the community Use of s.35 legislation has been effective and will be used when relevant to disperse drug users. Regular joint patrols with Hackney Council Enforcement Officers.

ASB Cycling on Footpath / Theft of Cycles

** To deter theft of Cycles around the Broadway Market and London Fields Park. Also to deter cycling on the pavements and speeding e-bikes

Social media campaigns offering crime prevention advice. Bike marking events and community stalls offering practical advice, registering bikes with 'Bike Register' to safeguard against theft.

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.