Bow West

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.BowWest@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 Bow West 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

There has been an increase in phone snatching and robberies taking place along Bow Road. Members of the community have also expressed concerns in relation to members of the public cycling on the pavement. Police will work with Tower Hamlets Enforcement Officers along Bow Road in order to prevent this. Police will also conduct high-visibility patrols along the road and provide crime prevention advice.

Bow West Safer Neighbourhood Team along with Safer Transport conducted a proactive operation along Bow Road and Mile End. High visibility and plain clothed foot patrols also plain clothes vehicle patrols continue to take place.

ASB/Vehicle Disruption

Concerns have been raised by members of the community regarding speeding vehicles and anti social behaviour within vehicles along Tredegar Square and Litchfield Road. Please report any specific vehicle registrations and times this is taking place on the Met Police website or through 101.

A number of disruption letters have been sent to registered keepers , along with increased patrols in the later hours of our shifts.

Drug Dealing - Malmesbury Estate

Officers are looking to increase the relationship and engagement with members of the Malmesbury Estate. Officers will be conducting a number of events on the estate in the coming months and will look to engage more with the local community. Reports in the area of drug dealing

A number of contact session have been completed , and increased patrols have continued within the estate.

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.