Barnsbury

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 Barnsbury.SNT@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 Barnsbury 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

CHAPEL MARKET - Focus on all manner of reported ASB, shoplifting, and phone snatches.

Mixed and frequent patrols from a number of officers in different departments at Islington police station. Continued working with the councils Angel BID team to identify trends repeat offenders. Support work around civil injuctions.

Offord Road

Address reports of drug dealing on Offord Road and surrounding areas.

Continued monitoring of reports and regular patrols

Barnard Park

Ongoing issues with ASB and volume crime matters, linked to the new football pitches and issues with poor dog behaviours.

Officers to conduct patrols in the area of the park and the surrounding areas. Work with the local authority to tackle issues with inappropriate dogs and poor behaviour. Ensure that park staff are updated and share information.

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.