North Hanwell

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 northhanwell@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 Hanwell 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

This is an ongoing priority set for the team. Previously the team has conducted a lot of work tackling drug related issues with some great success. Victims – Local residents and commuters. Offenders – Unknown suspects involved in drugs misuse. Locations – open spaces Churchfields and surrounding area. The problem is shared with Dormers Wells, Norwood Green SNT. Drug users and dealers congregate in towpath by the river Brent. Time – Reported all times during the day and late evenings.

Short term plans: 1. More High visibility patrols in the area to deter such activity and reassure the general public. 2. Plain-clothes patrols to apprehend perpetrators and to bring them to justice. Medium term plans: 1. Set up a residents association for better communication 2. Briefing completed sourcing of extra officers to attend location as wider problem. 3. Liaison with Ealing Outreach team for assistance as part of Operation Adder. 4. Environmental Visual Audit conducting by police design out crime team.

Ward Priority 2 - Drugs – Brent Valley Golf and surrounding area

This is an ongoing priority set for the team in relation to area being used by individuals to smoke drugs and cause ASB. Victims – Local residents and commuters. Offenders – Unknown suspects involved in drugs misuse. Locations – open spaces Oakley Close and surrounding area. Time – Reported all times during the day and late evenings.

Short term plans: 1. More High visibility patrols in the area to deter such activity and reassure the general public. 2. Plain-clothes patrols to apprehend perpetrators and to bring them to justice. Medium term plans: 1. Set up a residents association for better communication 2. Briefing completed sourcing of extra officers to attend location as wider problem. 3. Liaison with Ealing Outreach team for assistance as part of Project Adder.

Ward Priority 3 - Bordars Road, Hanwell, W7

This is an ongoing priority set for the team in relation to drug dealing and ASB in the area. Previously there several drug dears operating from the area. Victims – Local residents and commuters, school children. Offenders – Previous offenders Locations – Bordars Road and alley way leading to Marston Court and shops on Greenford Avenue, Hanwell, W7. Time – Reported all times during the day and late evenings.

Short term plans: 4. More High visibility patrols in the area to deter such activity and reassure the general public. 5. Plain-clothes patrols to apprehend perpetrators and to bring them to justice. Medium term plans: 3. Set up a residents association for better communication 4. Briefing completed sourcing of extra officers to attend location as wider problem. 6. Liaison with Ealing Outreach team for assistance as part of Project Adder.

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.