High Street

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.SNTHighStreet@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 High Street 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 Violence Against Women and Girls The Violence against Women and Girls initiative is a new campaign run by MET. The VAWG was formed to fight crime against women and girls and improve parks and streets safety Plan: 1.Protecting women and girls in public spaces 2. Improve park safety for women and girls 3. Rebuild the trust from the community

Ward Priorities VAWG – High Street SNT officers have put in a lot of work and effort in ensuring that female members of the public feel safe around WALTHAMSTOW, We have a weekly deployment to tackle problem areas, We carry out 1-2-1 VAWG patrols with female members of the community at least once a week. We have also focused our joint partnership working with LBWF around VAWG, We patrol with parking enforcement and ASB officers to solve issue around VAWG. We handout leaflets along with Street safe QR code, which allows members of public to suggest improvements in areas they feel most vulnerable We are the top performing borough in the MET and we have made several VAWG related arrest. We have also taken part in HATE CRIME awareness stand with LBWF to raise general awareness around the community.

Robbery

My Priority – Reducing Robberies in the HIGH STREET WARD The plan is to reduce the current robberies recorded on the HIGH STREET WARD and surrounding streets. This has been highlighted by the local residents and member of the public. The main aims is to: 1.Reduce the Robbery Reduce Theft Person 2.Built public confident

Robberies – Robberies on High street SNT has been on a decline, A 50% reduction in robberies over the past few months and overall crime reduction has seen crime levels drop to its lowest over the past few months. We have had a number of positive arrest for robberies and offensive weapons, these arrest have been followed by ASB warnings, CPW and CPN’s issued to the culprits restricting movement and behaviours around the High Street. We have already conducted and have a few further planned joint operations with violent crime taskforce and partner agencies in order to ensure the crime levels remain low.

Drink related ASB

There had been several complaints about drink related ASB on the ward.

The HIGH STREET SNT Have been patrolling the ward various time of the day on daily basis. A joint operation has been arranged with LBWF enforcement officers and STT. A number of CPNs have been issued.

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.