Laycock

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 Laycock.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 Laycock 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

St Mary Magdalene Academy and Highbury Corner Recent increase in robberies around school times in these areas

Use of stop and search powers when justified. Proactive plainclothes patrols in area, and introduction of Operation Trefoil. Engagement and crime prevention to local businesses.

Highbury Corner - ASB/Drugs/begging

Busy location of Highbury Corner and Tube station. Busy area with potential drug use/drug dealing At the McDonald's on Highbury Corner often groups of youth hang around and cause ASB. Women and girls feeling intimidated walking in the area so very much a foucs on VAWG.

To increase patrols in the area and focus on reducing crime and drug use.

Compton Terrace VAWG and drug use/ ASB

Compton Terrace because of its secluded parts and darkened areas has become a haven for drug use and ASB. It is also an unsafe area for women so there is a strong VAWG (Violence Against Women & Girls) focus.

Working with council to brighten areas with street lamps, cut back large amounts of foilage erasing dark hidden areas. Regular patrols by PCSO's in the area.

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.