Forest Gate North

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Through our new platform Met Engage you can get to know your local officers, help shape how we police your local area and have direct access to key information and advice.

This isn't just a platform for us to tell you what we're doing in your area, it's an opportunity for you to tell us what's concerning you most so we can take action on the things that truly matter to you.

Forest Gate North Safer Neighbourhoods Team

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 contact to your team about local policing issues, email us at ForestGateNorth@contact.metengage.co.uk or pick an officer to email below. (Please do not use this contact method to report crime, in an emergency always call 999 or you can report crime online at www.met.police.uk or dial 101).

Paolo Gandolfo

Dedicated Ward Officer

Ellie-May Gueran

James Howarth

Sergeant

Irina Hristova

PCSO

Danni Maddox

Sergeant

Brennan Mcilroy

Daniel Window

Inspector

Local Priority Issues

We are committed to tackling the issues that matter most to local communities. Based on our conversations with residents, and the issues they have raised with us, our main priorities are:

Priority	Action taken
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. Issued 17 July 2025	Regular patrols and weapon sweeps. Conducting proactive plain clothes Operation. Actioned 17 September 2025
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. Issued 17 July 2025	Targeted patrols around known areas used by the addicts Actioned 17 September 2025
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. Issued 17 July 2025	Proactive patrols and signposting to appropriate agencies Actioned 17 September 2025

Priority

Action taken

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.

Issued 17 July 2025

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

Actioned 17 September 2025

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.

Issued 17 July 2025

Targeted patrols around known areas used by the addicts

Actioned 17 September 2025

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.

Issued 17 July 2025

Proactive patrols and signposting to appropriate agencies

Actioned 17 September 2025

The word cloud below represents the issues raised by residents through their Local Matters survey. We take this into consideration along with discussions with stakeholders, ward panel meetings and conversations with the public when setting our key priorities

What members in Forest Gate North are saying are the issues in the area:

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