Hatch End

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 hatchend.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 Hatch End 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

Reduce drug related activity along the High Street, Uxbridge Road. Conduct high visibility patrols in the local area along with violence against the person patrols in areas of concern that have been identified via Street Safe.

Patrols of open spaces, parks and residential streets. Engagement with community members to identify local issues and discuss individual perceptions of safety. Multiple community patrols held weekly across the ward. Patrols of Hatch End High Street, local transport hubs and licensed premises to ensure relevant legislation is being adhered to. Recent positive detections for drug possession offences in the vicinity of Chantry Road following proactive operations by ward officers.

Burglary Reduction

The local community has asked the Hatch End Team to reduce residential burglary through increased crime prevention awareness. We endeavour to visit each victim of this crime type to offer crime prevention and target hardening advice. We will utilise social media platforms to provide crime prevention advice to a broader audience. We will conduct high visibility patrols utilising predictive crime mapping locations to effect a targeted response to crime trends.

Proactive operations targeting offenders using vehicles as part of their criminality. This has led to multiple seizures of vehicles for various motoring offences. We have deployed a laserlite speed gun to detect speeding motorists along Courtney Ave following a recent road traffic collision attributed to speed. Targeted patrols employing both marked and unmarked police vehicles 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 to all residents using OWL (Online Watch Link).

MV Crime Reduction

Our community has identified theft from motor vehicles as a primary concern for residents. Hatch End officers will endeavour to reduce instances of theft from motor vehicles through a combination of practive operations and raising crime prevention. Officers will visit every victim of this crime type. We will use social media platforms to give crime prevention advice to make it difficult for offenders to target vehicles.

Operation Kellerton, a targeted, data led response to theft from motor vehicle crime in Hatch End. The operation employs targeted proactive patrols in crime hot spots along with crime prevention advice to residents. Regular X posts regarding recent positive detections for crime as a result of this operation. Visible presence along streets that have high instances of theft from motor vehicle to raise awareness and make it harder for criminals to target vehicles.

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.