Wanstead Park

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 SNTJI-Wanstead-Park@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 Wanstead Park 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

Ongoing robberies occurring around Wanstead High School.

Targeted patrols in and around the area during times the offences are occurring. Liaising with members of the public to issue crime prevention advice & forming a partnership working model with the council and bordering borough. Street briefing on the roads affected to find out if there are any unreported crimes S - Reduce the number of Robberies M - Use crime statistics to measure crimes occurrence A - Surrounding area on the school can be targeted R - Councillors and members of the public have identified this area T – Over the next three months before the next ward panel meetings

Motor vehicle Theft & Interference

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: Reduce theft of motor vehicle & theft from motor vehicle on key streets on the ward (Woodlands Avenue & surrounding) over the next three months. In accordance of problem orientated policing.

Extra patrols of the affected streets at the specific times they have been reported in a covert manner & high visibility patrols. Partnership working with the council to make residents aware of crime prevention tactics plus provide reassurance. S - Reduce the number of Theft of motor vehicle & Theft from motor vehicle M - Use crime statistics to measure crimes occurrence A - Two main roads within the ward can be targeted R - Councillors and members of the public have identified these roads T – Over the next three months before the next ward panel meetings

Burglary

Increase in burglaries around the Warren Road area.

Extra patrols of the affected streets at the specific times they have been reported in a covert manner & high visibility patrols. Partnership working with the council to make residents aware of crime prevention tactics plus provide reassurance. S - Reduce the number of Burglaries M - Use crime statistics to measure crimes occurrence A - Traget areas of known offences and surrounding streets. High Visability patrols and partnership working. R - Councillors, members of the public and crime statistics have identified these roads T – Over the next three months before the next ward panel meetings

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.