Edgware (Barnet)

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Edgware - Barnet 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 Edgware-Barnet@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).

Theodore Ayers-Harris

Police Constable

Vivek Bhushan

Police Constable

Billy Crosby

Sergeant

Nigel Freestone

PCSO

Nathan Law

Police Constable

Jonathan Padilla

PCSO

Costin Rusu

PCSO

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
ASB in the Edgware town centre with a particular focus on restoring the public and key stakeholder trust in the police. Encouraging people to return to the town centre and feel safe to work, commute and shop there. Issued 28 October 2025	Increased patrols at peak times Working with Broadwalk Shopping Centre and shops to empower them to feel safer and report shopliftings and assaults on staff. Joined up working with the Safer Business Network to share intelligence and data to reduce shoplifting. Greater enforcement of the Public Space Protection Order (I.E street drinking and ASB around Bakery Path and the Train/Bus Station) Actioned 28 October 2025
Robbery and open space violence (Including Violence against Women and Girls) A focus on robbery and street violence (Including VAWG), in the entirety of the ward, not just the town centre. Issued 28 October 2025	Hold regular VAWG events to identify areas of concerns with women and girls (I.e Walk and talks) Better joined up working with NW Priority Crime Unit (Robbery team) to share intelligence and proactively target known robbery nominals Target knife carriers through innovative and new policing tactics. Increase patrols around school finish time where we see a spike in robberies. Actioned 28 October 2025
Burglary Reduction in Burglary offences with a lean towards education and prevention. Burglary is a problem that effects the whole ward and analysis would suggest this is done by travelling criminals, targeting high value vehicles and smaller items like jewellery and currency. As a ward team it is imperative we educate the people of Edgware to protect themselves against this sort of crime Issued 28 October 2025	Hold at least 3 Burglary Outreach events per month (Street briefings and security checks) Proactively identify and challenge security issues whilst on routine patrols Liase with NW Burglary Team to identify patterns of offending in the area to give the most up to date advice. Actioned 28 October 2025

Priority

Action taken

ASB in the Edgware town centre with a particular focus on restoring the public and key stakeholder trust in the police. Encouraging people to return to the town centre and feel safe to work, commute and shop there.

Issued 28 October 2025

Increased patrols at peak times
Working with Broadwalk Shopping Centre and shops to empower them to feel safer and report shopliftings and assaults on staff.
Joined up working with the Safer Business Network to share intelligence and data to reduce shoplifting.
Greater enforcement of the Public Space Protection Order (I.E street drinking and ASB around Bakery Path and the Train/Bus Station)

Actioned 28 October 2025

Robbery and open space violence (Including Violence against Women and Girls)

A focus on robbery and street violence (Including VAWG), in the entirety of the ward, not just the town centre.

Issued 28 October 2025

Hold regular VAWG events to identify areas of concerns with women and girls (I.e Walk and talks)
Better joined up working with NW Priority Crime Unit (Robbery team) to share intelligence and proactively target known robbery nominals
Target knife carriers through innovative and new policing tactics.
Increase patrols around school finish time where we see a spike in robberies.

Actioned 28 October 2025

Burglary

Reduction in Burglary offences with a lean towards education and prevention.
Burglary is a problem that effects the whole ward and analysis would suggest this is done by travelling criminals, targeting high value vehicles and smaller items like jewellery and currency.

As a ward team it is imperative we educate the people of Edgware to protect themselves against this sort of crime

Issued 28 October 2025

Hold at least 3 Burglary Outreach events per month (Street briefings and security checks)
Proactively identify and challenge security issues whilst on routine patrols
Liase with NW Burglary Team to identify patterns of offending in the area to give the most up to date advice.

Actioned 28 October 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 Edgware (Barnet) are saying are the issues in the area:

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