Forest Gate 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 ForestGateNorth.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 Forest Gate 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

Concerns have been raised around a large group of young people loitering on Tower Hamlets Road and surrounding areas that are potentially drug dealing. In response to this coming to light, officers are conducting patrols more regularly in the areas concerned.

Regular patrols and weapon sweeps. Conducting proactive plain clothes Operation.

Drugs

Concerns were raised by the community about drug dealing within the magpie park area. In response to this officers will perform a number of targeted patrols over the next three months, specifically but not exclusively in magpie park and Tower Hamlets Road where more detailed issues have been highlighted.

Targeted patrols around known areas used by the addicts

ASB Cormorant Road

Concerns raised by residents of an address of a cuckooed resident. The people attending the address are drug users and causing problems for all residents of the block including ASB that seems to be connected to this. In response to this officers are going to conduct high visibility patrols on the ward not just specifically in this area, in the hope that this will deter this behaviour and reduce the ASB related incidents. There is also a closure order in place for this address.

Proactive patrols and signposting to appropriate agencies

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.