Monkhams

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 Monkhams.snt@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 Monkhams 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

Our systems indicates the hotspot for violent offences to be around The Broadway, likely linked to priority 2. This priority is to reduce violent offences

SPECIFIC – Reduce the number of violent offences in the Broadway, Woodford Green MEASURABLE – This will come in the form of crime data analysis for this period to see if violent offences are reduced ACHIEVABLE– This priority is achievable for the ward team and will be done through a mixture of tactics: • High visibility patrols in the area at peak times • Engagement with local businesses about how to protect themselves • Plain clothes deployment • Targeting violent offenders in the area RELEVANT: This priority was agreed unanimously at the most recent ward panel meeting on the 17th June 2024 and is impacting on the quality of life for residents and businesses in the ward. 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 quarterly.

Anti-Social Behaviour

Reduce the number of ASB incidents on and around The Boradway, Woodford

SPECIFIC – Reduce the number of ASB incidents on The Broadway MEASURABLE – This will come in the form of crime data analysis for this period to see if incidents are reduced ACHIEVABLE - This priority is achievable for the ward team and will be done through a mixture of tactics: • High visibility patrols in the area • Requesting a camera from Redbridge Council • Plain clothes deployment • Targeting theft suspects in the area RELEVANT: This priority was agreed unanimously at the most recent ward panel meeting on the 17th June 2024 and is impacting on the quality of life for residents and businesses in the ward. 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 quarterly.

Deal with potential drink drivers on the High Road, Woodford

Ward panel members raised concerns about potential drink drivers leavng a pub on the High Road, Woodford and were also causing issues due to inconsiderate parking at the same pub

SPECIFIC – Monitor and reduce parking issues on High Road, Woodford and related driving offences to a nearby pub MEASURABLE – This will come in the form of data analysis for this period to see if related activity is reduced ACHIEVABLE - This priority is achievable for the ward team and will be done through a mixture of tactics: • High visibility patrols in the area • Liaise with relevant units to conduct operations in the area • Speak with the landlord to reaffirm expectaitons under their licensing agreement RELEVANT: This priority was agreed unanimously at the most recent ward panel meeting in the October 2024 and is impacting on the quality of life for residents and businesses in the ward. 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 quarterly.

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.