Wealdstone South

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-.SNTWealdstoneSouth@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 Wealdstone South 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

Violence – Focus on a reduction in violent crime on Wealdstone High Street.

The specific object of this priority is to target and identify local criminal groups and individuals committing offences in Wealdstone. Continued Op Nightingale, High Visibility patrols on the High Street in combination with plain clothes proactive patrols to target key offenders. Operation Turkana, which focused on Gang Violence and Drug Dealing - resulted in the arrest of ten individuals, Robbery, Possession of an Offensive Weapon, drug supply and possession

Drugs

Target and disrupt drug related activity across the ward.

Officers continue to conduct both plain clothes and high visibility patrols across the ward to target drug dealing. Officers continue to build a broader intelligence picture on key offenders involved in drug supply across Wealdstone. Operation Turkana, which focused on Gang Violence and Drug Dealing - resulted in the arrest of ten individuals, Robbery, Possession of an Offensive Weapon, drug supply and possession.

Violence Against Women and Girls – VAWG & Anti-Social Behaviour - ASB

Wealdstone South SNT is committed in the reduction in violent crime including those crimes committed against women and girls. This will be achieved through joint working with partner agencies and proactive patrols in known street drinking locations to deter VAWG.

Daily patrols of Wealdstone South whilst engaging with members of the community on their individual perception of safety. Increase patrols on Friday and Saturday evenings. The team are proactively patrolling hotspot areas, providing a high visibility deterrence against offenders. Plain clothes operations are continually being conducted apprehend prolific offenders.

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.