Barkingside

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 Barkingside@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 Barkingside 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

Brief descripition - Barkingside has a main transport hub in GANTS HILL, including busy night life venues. Due to the area covering a busy Underground Station, and a variety of community shops, a priority includes tackling Violence Related Offences especially surrounding areas of Violence Against Women And Girls (VAWG).

Actions SPECIFIC: Reduce the fear of assaults by members of the public in public places across Barkingside, including Gants Hill Underground Station, Cranbrook Road, Eastern Avenue and Woodford Avenue. To also gain public confidence in local Policing. MEASURABLE: Success can be measured by the declination of number of reported incidents to Police and positive feedback during community events and engagements with members of the community. This enables Police to seek community opinions, concerns and queries regarding the hotspot areas mentioned in the latter. ACHIEVABLE: Ensure members of the community feel safe and can safely use the locations. Focus is on working with the community including other agencies such as TFL and Redbridge Enforcement, carry out high Vis and plain clothes patrols, VAWG walk and talks, community contact session and stalls set up in busy areas. RELEVANT: Ensure members of the community can safely use the public locations and the public subway. TIMELY: The period between ward panel meetings will be used to monitor the success of this problem-solving process. Resources will also be taken into consideration, Review to take place prior to ward panel meetings which are held 4 times per year. Surveys are also sent out to ward residents to obtain opinions or concerns that are used to monitor success rates of neighbourhood policing.

ASB and Vagrancy

Brief description - Gants Hill Underground station serves as the main transport hub in Barkingside, that serves hundreds members of Public due to its direct link into Central London. Gants Hill Underground is also situated at a busy roundabout junction, that correspondingly attracts vagrancy, begging and general ASB at the traffic lights and subway underpasses.

Actions SPECIFIC: To reduce the number of rough sleepers that beg at public places at Gants Hill and the subway underpasses. General ASB creates a detrimental impact to the quality of life on the ward especially to the local community and residents, regarding feelings of their safety in the area especially during the night. MEASURABLE: This can be measured on reporting incidents to Police and feedback during the community events, drop in surgery, community contact session at Gants hill Library. Monitoring the status of prolific offenders in the area through the usage of Anti-social Behaviour Tickets, Community Protection Warnings and Notices. ACHIEVABLE: The persistent usage of Dispersal orders under section 35-39 of Anti-Social Behaviour and Crime and Policing Act 2014. Utilising powers and legislation enables Officers to disperse Prolific Offenders for 48 hours especially as the area has a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO). Further action and contingencies include the usage of issuing ASB- anti-social behaviour warnings, Community Protection Warnings, and Community Protection Notices. Targeting late night high visibility patrols alongside collaborative joint patrol with REO Redbridge Enforcement Officers and BTP-British Transport Police. RELEVANT: Ensure members of the community can safely use the public locations, public subway (underpass). TIMELY: Following up all procedures to resolve this issue on a timely schedule. Stage one includes ASB warnings, Stage 2 of Community Protection Warnings and stage 3, a Community Protection Notice. Monitoring the usage of these methods will enable prolific offenders to be dispersed from the area and therefore reduce anti-social behaviour.

Motor vehicle crime

Brief description - Barkingside is a very built-up residential ward which means many residents have access to cars both on personal drive ways and on the residential streets. Keyless car entry thefts and other motor vehicle crimes are therefore common. Barkingside ward therefore has put forth the decrease of motor vehicle crime as one of the wards key priorities.

Actions SPECIFIC: Aim to reduce motor vehicle crime in the ward through various initiatives MEASURABLE: Statistics are monitored during the duration of time between quarterly ward panels with residents. Comparing statistics whilst implementing measures to decrease crime in the area enables an efficient way to create a standardised approach that ultimately deters crime. ACHIEVABLE: Officers are to conduct regular high visibility hot spot patrols alongside providing the crime prevention advice to local community and residents. Ensuring residents are advised to obtain Faraday Bag-signal blocker. Street briefing at the various streets including with the local Council to correlate joint initiatives to provide an efficient way of joint partnership working to decrease crime. Patrols are continue in the most recent affected locations are at Inglehurst Garden, Beehive Lane, Collinwood Garden, Wood estate and Gants Hill. RELEVANT: Ensure that every residents of key-less cars are advised accordingly. Door to door enquiries to give best advice and prevention, key-less ignition (Faraday Bag) which is used as the best deterrent against theft of key-less car. TIMELY: The period between ward panel meetings will be used to monitor the success of this problem-solving process. Resources will also be taken into consideration, Review to take place prior to ward panel meetings which are held 4 times per year.

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.