Canning Town North

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 NE-SNTcanningtownnorth@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 Canning Town North 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

Reduce Robberies in the hot spot areas of Canning Town North

Overt and Covert patrols to target these robberies. Working with other units and wards/boroughs to tackle phone snatches and robbers. Covert patrols in the parks of Canning Town North. Intercepting suspects in cut through and alleyways. Also providing crime prevention advice to warn the community of suspects.

Violence Against Women & Girls

Violence against Girls and Women High visible patrols targeting busy areas such as West Ham Station, Star Park and Memorial Recreation Ground. Crime prevention advice and handing out leaflets. Working with specialist units, Op Furdale, to prevent VAWG.

Overt patrols. Crime prevention advice and lectures at various public meetings. Leafleting around crime hot spots to create awareness.

Anti Social Behaviour/ Drugs

Reduce ASB along with drug users and dealers on the ward Covert patrols targeting ASB in hotspot areas such as Star Park, Avondale Court, Memorial Avenue, Twelvetrees Industrial Park, Barking Road and Clifford Road. Overt patrols to deter and prevent ASB. Diversion by means of referrals, followed by enforcement by means of ASB warnings, CPWs and CPNs.

Hi Vis Patrols along with working with Housing management companies and other local authorities to reduce this on the ward using short and long term problem solving

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.