Canonbury

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 NI-CanonburyWard@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 Canonbury 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

Targeting Theft in the street occurring in Canonbury, we aim to reduce these further and target those carrying this crime.

Carry out high visibility patrols in areas affected by theft – particularly along Essex Road in order to deter would-be offenders. Patrols in area will also build relationships with those who live/work in the area and reassure residents.

Drugs related ASB

Engagement and proactive patrols around Essex Road to prevent drug activity. High visibility patrols with regular sweeps to prevent Drug related crime.

Carrying out High Visability patrols based on intelligence.

Cuckooing of homes Priority

New River Estate has had previous tentants to be taken adventage off. Drug dealers using there address to facilitate there crimial activity.

Carrying out high visibility patrols in the area , identifing any possible addresses being used for Cuckooing and then working with the Council to support tenants and take action against the offenders. (PMP Number to be upated)

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.