St Mary's & St James'
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St Mary's & St James' Safer Neighbourhoods Team
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 contact to your team about local policing issues, email us at StMary's&StJames'@contact.metengage.co.uk or pick an officer to email below. (Please do not use this contact method to report crime, in an emergency always call 999 or you can report crime online at www.met.police.uk or dial 101).
Jayne Carpenter
pc
Andrew Field
Inspector
Sophie O'driscoll
Police Constable
Sophie Plumb
Police Constable
Agnieszka Wlodarczyk
Police Community Support Officer
Local Priority Issues
We are committed to tackling the issues that matter most to local communities. Based on our conversations with residents, and the issues they have raised with us, our main priorities are:
| Priority | Action taken |
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Shoplifting at the Angel Shopping Center and surrounding. Still a high volume of shoplifting. Shoplifters are blatantly enter shops and take whatever they want with no challenge. Issued 04 August 2025 |
Officers will increase joint patrols at core times with a focus on the reported location and surrounding areas,engage with staff and management. Actioned 04 August 2025 |
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Street Drinkers and Drug Users have make the park unsafe for other MOPS. Residents report ASB and in at the park. Recently, 3 people set up tents which encouraged a lot of street drinkers and deterred families from using the park. There were also reports of drug use, littering and some more serious allegations that were never substantiated. Issued 04 August 2025 |
Uniform and plain clothes patrols of the area of Cannonbury Gardens and surrounding areas at key times focusing on engagement and disruption activities with groups. Actioned 04 August 2025 |
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Ongoing reports of anti-social behavior on vulnerable neighbors, Carers and other residents by specific children. This has escalated to stones being thrown from balconies and physical violence from parents of the children. Issued 04 August 2025 |
Uniformed patrols and plain clothes patrols of the area of Gough House and surrounding areas at key times focusing on engagement and problem solving efforts between the parties. Actioned 04 August 2025 |
The word cloud below represents the issues raised by residents through their Local Matters survey. We take this into consideration along with discussions with stakeholders, ward panel meetings and conversations with the public when setting our key priorities
What members in St Mary's & St James' are saying are the issues in the area:
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