Churchfields

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Churchfields 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 Churchfields@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).

Samuel Burt

Sgt

Joshua Dean

Dedicated Ward Officer

Kiren Kamal

Dedicated Ward Officer

Nicholas Sutton

Inspector

Preslav Zimnikov

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
Violence Related Priority At this time of year there is usually an increase in robberies in Churchfields ward, particularly around school times. Issued 28 August 2025	Hotspot foot patrols, unmarked car patrols and plain clothes patrols. Reassurance visits to victims and crime prevention advice – issuing personal safety alarms to vulnerable individuals. Liaising with Woodbridge Secondary and Churchfields Junior Schools. Churchfields Junior – annual engagement with power point presentations was organised. Regular Street Briefings related to Robberies. Weapon Sweeps targeting hidden weapons. Social media engagements. Actioned 12 December 2025
Motor Vehicle Crime Recent crime figures have shown that Churchfields Ward has suffered from increased Motor Vehicle Crime, fly tipping and graffiti located on the South-West side of the Ward and more specifically Grove Road area Issued 28 August 2025	Street briefing and more Police Presence, discussion on every Ward Panel Meeting, regular Police National Computer checks, social media engagements and retrieval of possible and identified as stolen and involved in a crime activity vehicles. Continued efforts are being made to have CCTV installed in the area. Actioned 12 December 2025
ASB & Drug related crime There is an increase in the amount of anti social behaviour in and around the Orchard Estate, police have been informed of drug related crime taking place in the area. Issued 28 August 2025	New Police Hub with increased Police presence in the area, continuous leasing with other partnership agencies from Redbridge council and implementing of partnership working operations. Proactive patrols resulting in stop and searches of the individuals responsible, continuous social media engagements, regular Street Briefing Events and close monitoring of the CCTV in operation. Actioned 12 December 2025

Priority

Action taken

Violence Related Priority
At this time of year there is usually an increase in robberies in Churchfields ward, particularly around school times.

Issued 28 August 2025

Hotspot foot patrols, unmarked car patrols and plain clothes patrols.
Reassurance visits to victims and crime prevention advice – issuing personal safety alarms to vulnerable individuals.
Liaising with Woodbridge Secondary and Churchfields Junior Schools.
Churchfields Junior – annual engagement with power point presentations was organised.
Regular Street Briefings related to Robberies.
Weapon Sweeps targeting hidden weapons.
Social media engagements.

Actioned 12 December 2025

Motor Vehicle Crime
Recent crime figures have shown that Churchfields Ward has suffered from increased Motor Vehicle Crime, fly tipping and graffiti located on the South-West side of the Ward and more specifically Grove Road area

Issued 28 August 2025

Street briefing and more Police Presence, discussion on every Ward Panel Meeting, regular Police National Computer checks, social media engagements and retrieval of possible and identified as stolen and involved in a crime activity vehicles. Continued efforts are being made to have CCTV installed in the area.

Actioned 12 December 2025

ASB & Drug related crime
There is an increase in the amount of anti social behaviour in and around the Orchard Estate, police have been informed of drug related crime taking place in the area.

Issued 28 August 2025

New Police Hub with increased Police presence in the area, continuous leasing with other partnership agencies from Redbridge council and implementing of partnership working operations.
Proactive patrols resulting in stop and searches of the individuals responsible, continuous social media engagements, regular Street Briefing Events and close monitoring of the CCTV in operation.

Actioned 12 December 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 Churchfields are saying are the issues in the area:

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