Royal Albert
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Royal Albert 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 RoyalAlbert@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).
Shane Appleton
Police Constable
Adnan Egal
Dedicated Ward Officer
Hanna Kenny
Sergeant
Nathaniel Lamptey
Dedicated Ward Officer
Rob Mckinley
PCSO
Richard Oldfield
Inspector
Imran Saeed
Police Community Support Officer
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 |
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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. Issued 01 January 2026 |
High Visibility Patrols Actioned 01 September 2025 |
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Motor vehicle crime Issued 01 January 2026 |
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. Actioned 01 January 2025 |
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Drugs and ASB Issued 01 January 2026 |
Intelligence led patrols to target this issue. Actioned 01 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 Royal Albert are saying are the issues in the area:
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