North Harrow

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 NWMailbox-.SNTNorthHarrow@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 North Harrow 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

PINNER ROAD: Reduce violence against the person - Police receive information of violence across the ward, mainly taking place along Pinner Road and Station Road.

North Harrow Safer Neighbourhoods Officers are conducting regular reassurance patrols along Pinner Road / Station Road, Blenhiem Rd, Cambridge Rd and other hotspot locations where data confirms higher crime locations. This is proven to reduce violence at hotspot locations, near pubs / tubes. Officers have been working with the Harrow council, and other police specialists to conduct live Facial Recognition Operations to assist drive down violent crime against the persons in Harrow. Through working with Harrow police licensing teams, pubs, clubs, bars have all been visited and management advised on ensuring they abide to their Licence Conditions to help make our community safer. Following Live Facial Recognition operations by your local officers, three persons were arrested and of interest to the Courts.

ASB reduction on ward

Anti social behaviour reduction especially around Pinner Road, North Harrow, Cambridge Road and West Harrow tube station.

Daily reassurance patrols of area have seen some reductions in ASB. Total crime on the ward is down since April 2024, as at Jan 25. Your local officers have targetted off licences selling alcohol to drunken persons, thus commiting offences under Licensing Act. Offending shops have been visited with Harrow Council also and designated premises owners advised, along with staff. Fast food delivery drivers have also been engaged and advised. Patrols outside Pinner road shops have also taken place after NowerHill School finish to reduce ASB reports. Consultation with Harrow Council re installation of PSPO signage to deter street offences.

Reduce thefts across ward

To reduce Theft General on the North Harrow ward. In particular supermarket thefts and phone thefts.

Your local Safer Neighbourhoods team have been conducting Community Walk, Talk and Do briefings to discuss local issues. Briefings outside Harrow tube station and West Harrow tube station to advise people of the use of their phones when not paying attention to surroundings. The ward has seen some theft person from suspects on ebikes, though since the arrest of a Harrow resident Your team recently assisted in the arrest of a suspect in Pinner and recovery of ten stolen phones. Business watch meetings have taken place attended by your local team. Local community events with St Albans church and local groups led to a clean up and engagement event in early December. Street briefings in streets across the ward have been conducted with residents to discuss crime prevention tactics, target hardening of business / residential premises and residents feeding information to police via Crime stoppers on 0800555111. y our great interceptor team, his bike was totally destroyed and phone thefts have practically reduced to very little.

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.