East Ham South

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 EastHamSouth.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 East Ham South 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

Violence against women & vulnerable people (VAWG). High Street South, E6

Officers regularly patrol these areas in relation to this priority, officers engage with those who are often targeted with perceived vulnerable, recently officers have given leaflets with advice to vulnerable and elderly women who have been targeted for their gold jewellery.

Drugs

Drug dealing and drug use. In hotspot areas, including open spaces / parks and building blocks.

Officers carryout regularly routine patrols on the ward hotspot areas to deter the use and taking of drugs. To identify suspects in relevant crime reports so they can be arrested, individuals matching the description of suspects are often stopped and searched.

Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB)

Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB). Begging, loitering and Street Drinkers.

Community matters - To assist as much as possible to prevent any ongoing ASB issues, begging, loitering and Street Drinkers or problems in Communal areas of building blocks and open spaces.

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.