Finsbury Park

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 SNTNI-.FinsburyPark@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 Finsbury Park 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

Violence Against Women & Girls continues to be priority for your Finsbury Park SNT. Community concerns continue to be specific to the area of Finsbury Park Station & Blackstock Road.

Your SNT team will impliment the following actions: Visible patrols in your areas of concern. Work in Partnership with your local authority to implement preventative measures to see a reduction in such crime, whilst increasing public confidence. Work with seldom heard communities to ensure that a wider capture of fears and concerns are accounted for to enable the best possible policing response.

Violence against the person offences

Targeting areas where violence against the person offences are recorded, increasing patrols and engagement with the public.

We will continue to be visible in our policing. We will actively target those areas are considered a 'hotspot' for violent offences. We are working with our partners to see other tactics used. This includes dual patrolling with security teams to strengthen & widen patrol areas. We have made Violent Offences a priority for both Op Nightingale & Clear, Hold, Build. With these government led initiatives, we are supported in providing additional patrol hours.

Robbery & Theft Person

Theft & Robbery remains the highest crime type on Finsbury Park with the bulk of offences occuring in and around Finsbury park tube station/Seven Sisters road etc.

In similarity to both of our priorities to target VAWG, Violent offences, we will use similar tactics with the addition and plain clothed patrols to identify offenders and remove them from your streets. We are working with our specialist colleagues in proctive teams to use the very best tactics and knowledge to see our detection & reduction rates improve.

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.