From Brent Council
Local residents are invited to a public meeting on Monday 27th January to discuss ongoing efforts to reduce drug and knife crime in Brent.
Chief Superintendent Sara Leach will speak about the steps the police in Brent are taking to cut crime and build trust within the community. She will outline how the police are working alongside the council, local partners, and the community to make Brent a safer place for everyone.
Brent’s commissioned support services will also explain how they help adults and young people who are worried about their own or someone else’s drug use.
The meeting will provide community members with the chance to share their views, voice their concerns and discuss ways everyone can work together to improve safety in the borough.
Attendees will also have an opportunity to meet and ask questions of local police sergeants, police officers, council officers, addiction recovery advocates, and support workers. These representatives will share their ongoing efforts to tackle drug and knife crime and invite feedback on how they can better connect with local communities.
This is an opportunity to hear what has already been done in Brent on these community safety priorities, find out how organisations and individuals can help reduce drug use and knife carrying, and suggest ways forward.
The public meeting is organised by the Brent Safer Neighbourhood Board (SNB) which is made up of community members and partners, including the council. Its role is to scrutinise the police and enable the community to engage with the police. Following the meeting, the SNB will work with the police to ensure action is taken on the issues raised by residents.
The meeting will take place on Monday 27 January, from 6.30-9pm at the Grand Hall in Brent Civic Centre. Refreshments will be provided, and there is no need to register in advance. The event will also be webcast online.
3 comments:
One of the two questions the Chief Superintendent will need to answer are:
1.When will the ward based Safer Neighbourhood teams finally be back to their promised strength (originally 1 sergeant, 2 PCs and 3 PCSOs per electoral ward) and,
2. When will the SNT ward team be solely dedicated to the ward and NOT be constantly taken away for low priority things such as the London Mayor's fire works party.
Local people who dedicate their volunteer time to sit on the Ward Safety Panel feel let down that as a result of the teams being under strength and constantly being taken away local patrols and dealing with local priorities is not possible as intended.
It is time to get the local Police teams up to strength and to keep them patrolling their local areas without being taken away for low priority activities by the Sadiq Khan or anyone else.
We also need all of our local councillors to attend SNT meetings.
If the councillors were attending they would understand the problems we residents face and collectively push for more Police Officers & resources and also push for more Brent Council Enforcement action too.
Police need to be walking our streets engaging with residents we only ever see them driving past.
Unless there's an event day when you will see thousands of police around the stadium - who pays for all the policing there? It should be Wembley Stadium or the FA or the high profile acts performing there not us council tax payers.
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