Clayhall

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 Clayhall@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 Clayhall 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 description - Violence related or violence driver and can include gangs, drugs, domestic violence and ASB. During the summer months there is usually an increase in ASB and robberies in open spaces on Clayhall ward.

Actions SPECIFIC – reduce the fear of assaults by members of the public in public places across Clayhall ward such as Clayhall Park, Redbridge Recreation Ground and Roding Valley Park. MEASURABLE – Success can be measured by the number of reported incidents to police and any change in attitude from the community who use the locations previously mentioned. 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 cloths patrols. Patrols dictated by data provided by crimint and crime reports RELEVANT – Ensure members of the community can safely use the public locations as highlighted on the Clayhall smart survey 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.

Robbery

Brief description - Reduce number of robberies. This location has recently seen a slight increase in robberies of Beal school pupils while leaving school. Younger pupils are usually targeted due to their vulnerability. The subway is natural cover for any suspects.

Actions SPECIFIC – reduce the fear of assaults in public places near Beal High School focusing on School pupils who use the underpass, which runs under the WOODFORD AVENUE exiting near LORD AVENUE and carry out weapons sweeps in the surrounding area. MEASURABLE – Success can be measured by the number of reported incidents to police and any change in attitude from the pupils who use the underpass. ACHIEVABLE – Ensure the community especially Beal Pupils feel safe and can safely use the underpass. Focus is on working with the community including other agencies such as TFL and carry out high vis and plain cloths patrols. Patrols dictated by data provided by crimint and crime reports RELEVANT – Ensure school pupils can safely use the subway, which runs under the WOODFORD AVENUE exiting near LORD AVENUE highlighted on Beal School survey 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.

ASB

Brief description - Rough sleepers engaged in begging in the area are causing mainly women to feel in fear of their safety when using the underpass at the A12 Redbridge Round About.

Actions SPECIFIC – reduce the fear of assaults in the subway under the Redbridge Roundabout focusing on members of the public mainly females who use the underpass and surrounding areas near to Redbridge station. MEASURABLE – Success can be measured by the number of reported incidents to police and any change in attitude from the community who use the underpass and station. ACHIEVABLE – Ensure the community especially women feel safe and can safely use the underpass and the area around the station. Focus is on working with the community including other agencies such as TFL and Redbridge Enforcement, carry out high vis and plain cloths patrols. Patrols dictated by data provided by crimint and crime reports RELEVANT – Ensure women can safely use the subway near to Redbridge underground station including surrounding area highlighted on Clayhall SNT smart survey 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.