Northwood

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 SNTWAMailbox-.Northwood@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 Northwood 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 against women and girls (VAWG) - Officers will be going into schools and giving talks to women/girls in order to give them information on how they can keep themselves safe when out and about.

Officers will liaise with Women's Groups in the area in order to identify 'hot spot' areas so more targeted patrols can be carried out. Initiatives such as public campaigns including Walk and Talk, as well as Street Safe will be carried out by officers on the ward, where they will be meeting with females to address any issues or concerns they may have.

Burglary

Burglary on Rickmansworth Road, Ducks Hill Road / Junction with The Avenue - Officers will conduct high visibility patrols in and around the areas, with the objective of deterring and dealing with offenders and any offences that are present at the time. With officers working alongside multiple agencies and local neighbourhoods co-ordinators this reduces and deters offenders from attending the area. This is an ongoing issue which gets reviewed at each ward panel meeting.

Officers have been conducting high visibility patrols in and around the area, making a point to engage with the locals. Street briefings will be carried out over the next few months in the mentioned areas, to give the local residents the opportunity to get good information from both the police and each other on how to secure their homes. Officers have been doing late night patrols in the area in an attempt to catch/warn off potential offenders, these patrols will continue to occur.

PATROLS OF SHELTERED ACCOMMODATION SETTINGS

Officers to carry out Patrols in and around areas where there is sheltered housing, including but not limited to James Court and St. Johns Court. The aim of this priority will be to help to reduce crime & anti - social behaviour around vulnerable residents and the area in which they live. Officers will work alongside the local authority, private scheme associations and other relevant agencies, to help to reduce crime and anti – social behaviour that may affect residents. This is an ongoing issue which gets reviewed at each ward panel meeting.

Northwood SNT have been conducting high visibility foot patrols in and around the sheltered housing areas, engaging with residents who live there. Officers have also been doing late night patrols in the areas in an attempt to deter any anti – social behaviour, these patrols will continue to occur. Drop in surgeries for residents at those venues have been carried out, this is to give them the opportunity to meet their local police team, for us to provide them with reassurance and for them to get information on how to keep themselves and their belongings safe whilst out and about, especially if out on their own.

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.