Canons

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 Canons.SNT@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 Canons 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. Patrols in Canons Park and the Canons Park and Stanmore Park tube station’s area's. Utilise social media accounts to publicise police activities in the areas, i.e. patrols, weapon sweeps, arrests, partnership working, good news stories etc. Proactive engagement with members of the public and stakeholders to identify anti-social or criminal activity inside the area and the surrounding environs.

Daily HVP/Plain clothes patrols in the relevant areas and members of the public spoken with to identify issues and their individual perception of safety, Weekly Walk, Talk and Do Events held.

Burglary

To target burglary hotspots on the ward in an aim to deter any potential burglaries through increased crime prevention awareness. Visit every victim of this crime type and offer crime prevention and target hardening advice. Use social media platforms to give crime prevention advice. High Visibility patrols in predictive crime mapping locations.

Traffic operations targeting offenders using vehicles in crime. Targeted patrols in predictive crime mapping hot spot areas. Extensive Crime prevention advice given to all victims of this crime. Crime prevention messages to be sent out on social media (twitter) and to all residents using OWL (Online Watch Link)

M/V crime

Reduce theft of/from Motor vehicles by conducting targeted reassurance patrols and awareness sessions i.e. street briefings.. Work with multi-agency partners to share information / intelligence and assist with operations to tackle this crime type.

Victims of crime contacted and provided with crime prevention advice. HVP (High Visibilty Patrols) conducted.

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.