Childs Hill

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 SNTSX-ChildsHill@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 Childs Hill 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 based offences around Golders Green Crescent, Beechcroft Avenue NW11 and surrounding roads. SNT will be conducting high visibility patrols and weapons sweeps, utilising stop and search where grounds exist as well as gathering intelligence to target and catch offenders. SNT will look to issue Community Protection Notices and seek closure orders on any properties being used by offenders.

Work ongoing

Moped/Cycle enabled Theft offences

Childs Hill SNT will be looking to run a joint operation with Hampstead Garden Suburbs SNT conducting plain clothed, as well as high visibility patrols in order to try to target and deter offenders. Barnet Volunteer Police Cadets will be utilised in order to conduct crime prevention leaflet drops in order to make residents more aware about visual awareness.

Work ongoing

Drugs Misuse/Supply – Mainly around Ridge Road and Sunnyside NW2

SNT will be conducting high visibility patrols, utilising stop and search where grounds exist as well as gathering intelligence to target and catch offenders. SNT will also look to issue Community Protection Notices. SNT will liase with LBB regarding the potential for a barrier to be placed at the entrance of the Ridge Road Car Park, as well as using the Barnet Volunteer Police Cadets to clean up the litter within the car park

work ongoing

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.