Eastbury

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Eastbury 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 Eastbury@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).

Kacper Brzezinski

PCSO

Steven Burkey

Police Constable

Christopher Dwyer

Sergeant

Christopher Pearce

Inspector

Joseph Pocknell

PCSO

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
Priority 3: Robbery (Ward Wide Focus mainly Gale Street and Upney Lane) Issued 17 March 2026	• Robbery (ward wide focus) – Targeted Hi Visibility Robbery patrols on Gale Street and Upney Lane to prevent Robbery’s which mainly occur during the school runs and rush hours. • Also, we try to encourage residents and the victims of the robberies to report the crime that has occurred. • Officers from Eastbury ward have been also conducting plain clothes patrols in Gale Street . • Work with the JO Richardson School to tell the teachers to encourage their students to report any crime mainly robbery’s. • Officers will be conducting patrols and taking calls when they are in the area to protect victims and secure evidence, to bring prosecution to those who commit these crimes. Actioned 17 March 2026
Priority 1: VAWG priority Ripple Road (near shops), Upney Lane. VAWG (Upney Lane Station) – Providing visible patrols in areas where women have reported feeling unsafe. Issued 17 March 2026	•Educating the community about identifying and reporting harassment or abuse. • We also encourage anyone who experiences or witnesses' harassment, abuse, or violence to report it. Your voice is vital in helping us tackle these crimes –https://www.police.uk/pu/notices/streetsafe/street-safe/ •Partnering with local organisations to offer support to survivors and raise awareness. •The three main key hot spots in Eastbury Ward for VAWG are Upney Lane train station, Essex Road and Lambourne Gardens. • Police are also conducting regular patrols in hot spots for VAWG and where Women feel unsafe in Eastbury Ward. •Eastbury officers have worked together with LLBD council to fix a gate where a padlock was broken near Upney Lane station on Lambourne Gardens were Eastbury Ward have identified that it’s a VAWG hot spot. Actioned 17 March 2026
Priority 2: ASB/Theft of and Theft from Motor vehicles (Ward Wide Focus Mainly Ripple Road, Blake Avenue) Issued 17 March 2026	• There have been reports of groups hanging around the location causing ASB or doing drugs in vehicles and in block of flats and that they use Nitrous Oxide canisters and drugs. This mainly happens in the evenings. • Eastbury Ward has worked with the ASB officer and the council in order to address this issue. Also, we have: • Patrols around the area mainly in evenings and during the day. • Increasing Patrols in the area • Engaging with residents • Encouraging residents to report crime if they witness it. • Officers from Eastbury have also conducted Cuppa with a Copper near Blake avenue on the main road on Ripple road. • Officers from Eastbury have also conducted reassurance visits in the area of victims of burglaries and other victims and encourage residents to report any sort of crime. Also, Eastbury SNT contact card has been given to residents and Met Engage leaflet. . Actioned 17 March 2026

Priority

Action taken

Priority 3: Robbery (Ward Wide Focus mainly Gale Street and Upney Lane)

Issued 17 March 2026

• Robbery (ward wide focus) – Targeted Hi Visibility Robbery patrols on Gale Street and Upney Lane to prevent Robbery’s which mainly occur during the school runs and rush hours.
• Also, we try to encourage residents and the victims of the robberies to report the crime that has occurred.
• Officers from Eastbury ward have been also conducting plain clothes patrols in Gale Street .
• Work with the JO Richardson School to tell the teachers to encourage their students to report any crime mainly robbery’s.
• Officers will be conducting patrols and taking calls when they are in the area to protect victims and secure evidence, to bring prosecution to those who commit these crimes.

Actioned 17 March 2026

Priority 1: VAWG priority Ripple Road (near shops), Upney Lane.
VAWG (Upney Lane Station) – Providing visible patrols in areas where women have reported feeling unsafe.

Issued 17 March 2026

•Educating the community about identifying and reporting harassment or abuse.
• We also encourage anyone who experiences or witnesses' harassment, abuse, or violence to report it. Your voice is vital in helping us tackle these crimes –https://www.police.uk/pu/notices/streetsafe/street-safe/
•Partnering with local organisations to offer support to survivors and raise awareness.
•The three main key hot spots in Eastbury Ward for VAWG are Upney Lane train station, Essex Road and Lambourne Gardens.
• Police are also conducting regular patrols in hot spots for VAWG and where Women feel unsafe in Eastbury Ward.
•Eastbury officers have worked together with LLBD council to fix a gate where a padlock was broken near Upney Lane station on Lambourne Gardens were Eastbury Ward have identified that it’s a VAWG hot spot.

Actioned 17 March 2026

Priority 2: ASB/Theft of and Theft from Motor vehicles (Ward Wide Focus Mainly Ripple Road, Blake Avenue)

Issued 17 March 2026

• There have been reports of groups hanging around the location causing ASB or doing drugs in vehicles and in block of flats and that they use Nitrous Oxide canisters and drugs. This mainly happens in the evenings.
• Eastbury Ward has worked with the ASB officer and the council in order to address this issue. Also, we have:
• Patrols around the area mainly in evenings and during the day.
• Increasing Patrols in the area
• Engaging with residents
• Encouraging residents to report crime if they witness it.
• Officers from Eastbury have also conducted Cuppa with a Copper near Blake avenue on the main road on Ripple road.
• Officers from Eastbury have also conducted reassurance visits in the area of victims of burglaries and other victims and encourage residents to report any sort of crime. Also, Eastbury SNT contact card has been given to residents and Met Engage leaflet.
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Actioned 17 March 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 Eastbury are saying are the issues in the area:

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