Shirley North

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 SNMailbox-.ShirleyNorthSNT@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 Shirley North 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

Following further reports of ASB and drug related crime we will Continue to hold crime prevention advice meetings at the community centre and to carry out foot patrols and mobile patrols in marked and unmarked vehicles.

Orignally this related to the Longheath Gardens estate. Officers have been patrolling around that area and held community engagement meetings, following this we have seen a reduction in ASB reports. Whilst there is a reduction in reports on Longheath Gardens there has been an increase on the Stroud Green estate, as a result officers will be carrying out regular patrols and carrying out stop and searches around the estate where grounds exist.

Theft from motor vehicle

There have previosuly been a number of motor vehicle crimes occuring in The Glade/Gladeside. The ward team focussed on crime prevention through street breifings in thea rea as well as patrols in both marked and unmarked vehicles to deter and catch any potential offenders. This seemed to have the desired effect with a significant reduction in motor vehicle thefts in the area for a period of time. However, there appears to be an increase in these type of offences on the ward again.

Through the use of contact sessions, street briefings and proactive patrolling the team aim to reduce the level of crime occuring on the ward through education on how to prevent our residents from becoming victims.

Drug Related ASB

There have been a number of reports and comments made by residents of Woodmere avenue about possible drug related ASB involving people parked up in vehicles, we will be conducting patrols along Woodmere avenue and Woodmere gardens and will be holding street briefings in the area.

Reports of Drugs on Woodmere avenue have continued, officers have been patrolling the area and along Woodmere Gardens, some stop and searches have already been carried out and officers will continue to patrol the area and engage with anyone found to be loitering in vehicles in the area. There have recently been three postivie stop and searches for drugs and one occassion a knife was also recovered by officers from one of the individuals.

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.