Fairlop
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Fairlop 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 Fairlop@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).

Syed Ali
Police Constable

Dean Birch
PC

Ian Creppy
PCSO

Kamini Howes
Sergeant

Sita Johal
PCSO

Luke Stevens
Police Constable

Nicholas Sutton
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 |
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Barkingside High Street has seen a regular increase from youths involved in ASB and youth violence. There has been a decrease in crimes whereby knives and weapons have been used, on the high street, however, ward panel members want this to stay as priority linked in with Violence against women and girls as a concern. Issued 15 July 2025 |
Fairlop ward officers to patrol hotspot areas, on the ward, carry out high Hi-Viz patrols and interact with school children, this has been ongoing, when youths are coming to meet other schools youths, on Barkingside High Street. Regular weapon sweeps will be ongoing in this vicinity. Actioned 15 August 2025 |
ASB/Drugs/prostitution - Trehearn/Trelawney/Saltash Alleyways Issued 15 July 2025 |
Fairlop ward officers will be carrying out regular patrols in the alleyways of Trehearn, Trelawney and Saltash, there is an alleyway shaped as a H runs behind these streets, resident have complained of recent drug dealing, smoking and prostitution, and fly tipping we will patrol this area on every shift. Actioned 15 August 2025 |
This priority remains the same as the past ones due to being ratified by the most recent ward panel as it is still a concern that the residents feel SNT should be focusing on: Reduction of theft of motor vehicle & theft from motor vehicle on key streets on the ward (Hughes Road Estate & surrounding) over the next three months. In accordance of problem orientated policing. Issued 15 July 2025 |
High visibility patrols have been conducted in Redbridge sports centre, due numerous thefts from motor vehicles, mainly the catalytic convertors being stolen. Advice given to management and staff and leaflets provided on advice to prevent this from happening. In our contact sessions we have and will continue to give our crime prevention material on car prevention crime. The areas where the vehicle crime has been significant has been the Redbridge Sports Centre, The Power League, and Fencepiece Road. Actioned 15 August 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 Fairlop are saying are the issues in the area:
Latest Alerts

Local Priorities Anti Social Behaviour Concern Update
Dear Resident, Thank you for taking the local priority survey recently, we note that you highlighte...

Local Priorities Drug dealing - Warrant Executed
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Local Priorities Theft Of Motor Vehicles Message
Dear Resident,I wanted to provide you with an update regarding the theft of motor vehicles, which p...

MISSING PERSON APPEAL - Can you help?
We are continuing our investigation to locate a missing person. Can you help us locate Jamal who is ...

Local Priorities Theft Of Motor Vehicles Message
Dear Resident,I wanted to provide you with an update regarding the theft of motor vehicles, which p...

Police Cadets In Redbridge Are Recruiting New Members - Do You Know A Young Person Who Would Benefit?
We are looking for young people age 13 - 18 years old to join Redbridge Cadets from September. The g...

Local Priorities Violence against women and girls Update
Dear Resident, Thank you for taking the local priority survey recently, your ongoing feedback about ...

Local Priorities Shoplifting Message
Dear Resident, I wanted to provide you with an update regarding Shoplifting, which people around you...
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