Markhouse

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.SNTMarkhouse@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 Markhouse 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

Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG), we are conducting regular patrols in the ward regarding the issue and also joining neighbouring wards to assist in this OP on HIGH STREET E17. There were number of complaints in the past by female member of public reporting of unsolicited remarks and sexual comments/harassment been passed as they go out and about and feel unsafe in public places/area. Officers will target busy areas in the ward to tackle this problem and also to engage with member of public to make awareness.

Targeted patrols took place and number of offenders were issued with ASB warnings regarding their behaviour. Officers have been engaging with female member of public and handing out flyers to make awareness on Violence Against Women and Girls and also explaining about Street Safe app where they can report any low risk non crime related incidents in their local area.

Theft from motor vehicle - Edinburgh Road, Station approach, Queens road, Exeter Road E17.

Theft of and from Motor Vehicles – number of reports from residents in the ward have been reporting theft from motor vehicle on the above locations and surrounding areas. We will put these locations on our default patrols, residents have been advised to contact police if they witness anything in relation to theft of or from motor vehicle.

Officers have conducted the patrols in the locations and also engaged with the local community. Officers reassured the local residents and provided crime prevention advices, Local resident were given Markhouse Ward contact details were provided to residents.

ASB and drugs use at THOMAS GAMUEL PARK E17

Young youth have been loitering in the park and causing ASB and also involved in drug activity. We will patrol this location as our hotspot for drugs and ASB, we will target the location on different times of our shifts specially at/ after home time.

Officers have been targeting this location on various different timings, officers have challenged youth at the location loitering and causing ASB and also conducted numerous stop and searches where ground existed. Number of offenders have been served with ASB warnings and advices were given not to be in the area. Officers will continue to monitor location.

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.