East Finchley

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Through our new platform Met Engage you can get to know your local officers, help shape how we police your local area and have direct access to key information and advice.

This isn't just a platform for us to tell you what we're doing in your area, it's an opportunity for you to tell us what's concerning you most so we can take action on the things that truly matter to you.

East Finchley 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 EastFinchley@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).

Hamza Akhtar

Dedicated Ward Officer

Emmanuel Asare-Bekoe

Sergeant

Janice Lovell

Dedicated Ward Officer

Nkemdirim Ofo

Inspector

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
Violence Against Women and Girls in Parks and open spaces Tackling violence against women and girls deterring and detecting crime, providing visibility and reassurance and increase public confidence in policing Issued 16 July 2025	Hi-Vis patrols along the High road and the Train station. Re-assuring women and Girls though engagement. Linking up with the local Pubs on the safe place scheme and giving encouragements. Actioned 16 July 2025
Increase in vehicle crimes in certain areas of the community. This is mainly due to the fact that the community is close to the A406 and the nearby streets are the ones that fall victim to these crimes. Issued 16 July 2025	Provide a visible police presence in identified Hot-spot areas for prevention and public reassurance. Using Social Media to give crime prevention advice where its possible to do so. Actioned 16 July 2025
ROBBERY This has been opened due to a spate of robberies over the last couple of weeks The main aims of this priority are to: * Reduce mobile phone snatches * Improve crime prevention * Improve public awareness on the problem Issued 16 July 2025	Increase foot patrols around hotspot area; High Road N2, areas around the Tube station. Link up with school officers on educating the local schools on crime prevention methods. Actioned 16 July 2025

Priority

Action taken

Violence Against Women and Girls in Parks and open spaces
Tackling violence against women and girls deterring and detecting crime, providing visibility and reassurance and increase public confidence in policing

Issued 16 July 2025

Hi-Vis patrols along the High road and the Train station.
Re-assuring women and Girls though engagement.
Linking up with the local Pubs on the safe place scheme and giving encouragements.

Actioned 16 July 2025

Increase in vehicle crimes in certain areas of the community. This is mainly due to the fact that the community is close to the A406 and the nearby streets are the ones that fall victim to these crimes.

Issued 16 July 2025

Provide a visible police presence in identified Hot-spot areas for prevention and public reassurance.
Using Social Media to give crime prevention advice where its possible to do so.

Actioned 16 July 2025

ROBBERY
This has been opened due to a spate of robberies over the last couple of weeks
The main aims of this priority are to:
* Reduce mobile phone snatches
* Improve crime prevention
* Improve public awareness on the problem

Issued 16 July 2025

Increase foot patrols around hotspot area; High Road N2, areas around the Tube station.
Link up with school officers on educating the local schools on crime prevention methods.

Actioned 16 July 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 East Finchley are saying are the issues in the area:

Agree or not? Have your say now, click here to do the survey

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