Royal Albert

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 NEMailbox-.RoyalAlbert@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 Royal Albert 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

VAWG is of concern on the borough as a whole. Royal Albert Ward has transport hubs with DLR stations, open space areas, hotels and a University campus.

High Visibility Patrols

Motor vehicle crime

Theft of high value vehicles and work vans being broken into to steal tools accounts for the majority of reported crime on the ward. The hotspot locations for these are hotel car parks.

Covert Operations to target this problem

Drugs and ASB

The ward is blighted by drug use and dealing and the ASB that goes hand in hand with this. Hotspot areas for this are ROYAL ALBERT WHARF / ROEBOURNE WAY / DREW ROAD.

Overt and Covert patrols to target this issue.

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.