Eastbrook & Rush Green

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Eastbrook & Rush Green 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 Eastbrook&RushGreen@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).

Manar Akach

Sergeant

Lee Richards

Police Constable

Ross Richmond-Clarke

Rick Sweetman

PCSO

Carroll Weeden

Inspector

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
ASB linked to Barking and Dagenham College (Rush Green) Issued 03 February 2026	A reoccurring commitment on the team’s agenda due to the annual turnaround of students, anti-social behaviour (ASB) from a small number of students attending Rush Green’s Barking and Dagenham College will be monitored over the coming months. Historic hotspots, including the Thorntons Farm Avenue alley and the communal areas of the flats in Dagenham Road, will continue seeing patrols, while newly emerging gathering points, including Fourth Avenue, will see a greater presence. Cannabis use and groups obstructing the footway will draw much of the team’s focus, while also ensuring the general safety of both the students and those living on, and passing through, Rush Green. Actioned 03 April 2026
Motor vehicle ASB and crime (ward-wide) Issued 03 February 2026	The broad subject of vehicle crime and vehicle-enabled anti-social behaviour (ASB) will be tackled heading into the New Year, with theft, dangerous parking and speeding being explored. The ward’s previous priority surrounding vehicle ASB outside Rush Green Primary in Dagenham Road, primarily poor parking, will continue to be monitored, with an emphasis on the start of the school day. Along with anticipated assistance from Barking and Dagenham Council’s parking enforcement department, the team will initially look to advise parents parking without courtesy before considering local authority-led measures. Speeding, which has previously impacted residents of Gorseway and Parish Fields, will also be looked into, again leaning on support from the council. Finally, theft of and theft from vehicle offences will see a greater focus, directing advice to owners of at-risk vehicles based on current trends, as well as looking for items of potential value left on display and notifying owners. The team’s exclusive ‘VehicleMania’ initiative will incorporate both aspects. Actioned 03 April 2026
Violence (set by the Met Police) Issued 03 February 2026	Both robbery and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) will shape the team’s approach to removing opportunities for violence on the ward throughout the winter months. Central Park, often used as a cut-through by school children making their way to and from school, will continue to see coverage. This presence will also look to reassure females traveling through the park. Robbery around Barking and Dagenham College will also monitored as part of the team’s college-focused priority around anti-social behaviour (ASB). Meanwhile, the ward’s other green spaces, including the Eastbrookend Country Park and Fels Field, will also see a greater presence to boost confidence among those visiting the parks. The team have provided dedicated patrols across the ward’s open spaces throughout the year, including over 10 miles in October, and will continue to do so into the New Year. Actioned 03 April 2026

Priority

Action taken

ASB linked to Barking and Dagenham College (Rush Green)

Issued 03 February 2026

A reoccurring commitment on the team’s agenda due to the annual turnaround of students, anti-social behaviour (ASB) from a small number of students attending Rush Green’s Barking and Dagenham College will be monitored over the coming months.

Historic hotspots, including the Thorntons Farm Avenue alley and the communal areas of the flats in Dagenham Road, will continue seeing patrols, while newly emerging gathering points, including Fourth Avenue, will see a greater presence. Cannabis use and groups obstructing the footway will draw much of the team’s focus, while also ensuring the general safety of both the students and those living on, and passing through, Rush Green.

Actioned 03 April 2026

Motor vehicle ASB and crime (ward-wide)

Issued 03 February 2026

The broad subject of vehicle crime and vehicle-enabled anti-social behaviour (ASB) will be tackled heading into the New Year, with theft, dangerous parking and speeding being explored.

The ward’s previous priority surrounding vehicle ASB outside Rush Green Primary in Dagenham Road, primarily poor parking, will continue to be monitored, with an emphasis on the start of the school day. Along with anticipated assistance from Barking and Dagenham Council’s parking enforcement department, the team will initially look to advise parents parking without courtesy before considering local authority-led measures. Speeding, which has previously impacted residents of Gorseway and Parish Fields, will also be looked into, again leaning on support from the council. Finally, theft of and theft from vehicle offences will see a greater focus, directing advice to owners of at-risk vehicles based on current trends, as well as looking for items of potential value left on display and notifying owners. The team’s exclusive ‘VehicleMania’ initiative will incorporate both aspects.

Actioned 03 April 2026

Violence (set by the Met Police)

Issued 03 February 2026

Both robbery and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) will shape the team’s approach to removing opportunities for violence on the ward throughout the winter months. Central Park, often used as a cut-through by school children making their way to and from school, will continue to see coverage. This presence will also look to reassure females traveling through the park. Robbery around Barking and Dagenham College will also monitored as part of the team’s college-focused priority around anti-social behaviour (ASB).

Meanwhile, the ward’s other green spaces, including the Eastbrookend Country Park and Fels Field, will also see a greater presence to boost confidence among those visiting the parks. The team have provided dedicated patrols across the ward’s open spaces throughout the year, including over 10 miles in October, and will continue to do so into the New Year.

Actioned 03 April 2026

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 Eastbrook & Rush Green are saying are the issues in the area:

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