Cockfosters

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 Cockfosters.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 Cockfosters 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

The ward priority is now Burglary, as the nights are drawing in these are expected to increase.

The team will review the overnight crimes on the ward and look for trends and establish any linked series. the team will conduct plain clothes and uniformed pro active patrols, we will offer crime prevention visits, and distributed relevant crime prevention advice via OWL and Twitter, we will continue to do this and will be concentrating on prevention.

Theft shoplifting

In response to a spike in thefts at the BP and sainsburies

we will work closely with the venues, identifying CCTV oppurtunites for investigations and actively seek to bring offenders to justice

Motor Vehicle Crime

In response to theft from work vans and theft of high value keyless motor vehicles, .

we will continue to monitor hotspot areas via ANPR / CCTV, we will also distribute relevant crime prevention advice to victims

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.