Gospel Oak

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 SNTEK-GospelOak@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 Gospel Oak 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

Drug related offences around the Queens Crescent, Lismore Circus and surrounding areas. Combating the street dealers that deal in these areas and the population that use drugs. Which lead to littering, noise disturbance and other types of ASB behaviour.

Your Gospel Oak team are increasing their patrols, working alongside stakeholders and partners to help decrease this offence type. Officers are combating this offence type by conducting stop and search, arresting suspects as well as issuing ASB warnings.

VAWG/Gang/Knife Crime/Violence

Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG), Gang, knife and violent related crimes. No one should feel unsafe when out and about around the Queens Crescent and surrounding areas.

Your Gospel Oak team have increased patrols around the area, patroling in full uniform and plain clothes. Also working alongside partner agencies to make the Queens Crescent area a safer place to be.

Burglary

Residential and/or commercial burglary offences, working with partners and stakeholders to prevent and drive offences of this nature down.

Your ward team work closely with partner agencies to increase patrols in the area of Gospel Oak. Also working with local stakeholders to bring awareness of prevention measures, to help local residents combat this type of crime.

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.