South Tottenham

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 southtottenham@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 South Tottenham 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

1.Violence – This is a broad category that can include all violence types and can include gangs, drugs, domestic assaults, violence against women and vulnerable people, public space safety, alcohol fuelled violence and anti0social behaviour linked to violence. As the days are getting longer in the lead up to summer officers will predominantly target the areas with the heaviest footfall of High Road, Broad Lane and Monument Way. The ward Panel met on the 22/01/25 and the ward priority remains the same. The next panel meeting has been provisionally booked in May.

High Visibility and plain clothes patrols continue on the ward. Previous Operation Pilotis to tackle the ongoing issues had some good results with prolific offenders targeted through the use of stop search and powers under the Anti-Social Behaviour Act. Patrols to continue including VAWG patrols and engagement to reassure the community in that area. Days of Action planned in coming weeks. High Vis patrols targeting known offenders working with other police units. PMP created as per MPS policy for all ward priorities which is updated with police activity and results. High visibility patrols Op Redding covering ward and Retail Park were carried out last week to target offenders using plain clothes patrols and also uniformed high visibility patrols. Op Ratio joint Operation with Seven Sisters Ward is also planned in coming weeks to tackle violence and Robbery. The Ward Panel was carried out on 18/9/24 and the priority was agreed and remains in place. High Visiibility parols planned in the area on the build up towards Christmas with a focus in and around Seven Sisters/Broad Lane and also Tottenham Hale Retail park. High Visibility Patrols to continue in this area a review at the ward panel on the 22/1/25 An enviromental visual audit i o be carried out in Ferry Lane with the support of the design out crime offcer. Additional funding and extra police resourcing also being sough to support with extra patrols during peak times and hours of darkness as their is a real fear of crime in the area. Operation Fresh will see increased high visibiity patrols in the Ferry Lane area to reassure residents. There will also be an enviromental visual audit on the 23rd of April with a police design out crime officer. We are hoping to carry out a walk around with the local commnity and local authority so we can get some feedback on where the anti social behaviour is taking place.

Priority 2 – Theft Person

This was a Robbery Priority but as this has now reduced and the ward is seeing an increase in Theft Person Offences so this priority has changed. Officers tasked to target top 5 offenders in the area and carry out high visibity patrols during peak times using powers under the anti social behaviour act to tackle. Police powers and use of Anti Social Behaviour warning and community protection notices to be also used to tackle low scale Anti Social Behaviour which may also be linked to offences in the area.

High Visibility patrols targeting prolific offenders. Crime prevention throigh use of outreach van and leaflering Tottenham Hale with support of police volunteers. Patrols in hotspot areas and all police powers to be used to tackle offences to include use of ASB warnings and CPN. Patrols continue in this area with a focus on our top offenders in the locality. The team has recently carried out a facial recognition opertation in partnership with Seven Sisters ward and the Town Centre Team where 5 arrests were made for wanted offenders. Seven Sisters and South Tottenham share a ward boundary and there has been an increase in theft offences in this area so this operation was a success in targering wanted offenders who were passin through the area.

Priority 3 – Shoplifting

Shoplifting Tottenham Hale Retail Park. Increase in shoplifting in the area that is impacting the local business community and also contributing to locaised anti social behaviour.

Uniformed and plain clothes patrols in the area trageting top 5 offenders on the ward to continue under Op Redding. Our top 5 offenders continue to be our focus as a team with an arrest by the team for a wanted offender for shoplifting on the 5/4/25 Working closely with Business Crime Reduction Patrnership to tackle the issue. Use of outreach van to provide extra visibilty in the area and also to deliver crime prevention advice to raise awarness. Use of powers under the Anti Social Behaviour Act to support in tackling offenders in the area. To work with Town Centre Teams to also tackle and target offenders in the area.

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.