Neighbourhood Watch, Meeting Highlights (2-Mar)

If you have any comments or suggestions on how to deter the expected anti-social behaviour in warmer months, please feel free to submit it to the Safer Neighbourhoods Team (SNT).

The next Neighbourhood Watch meeting will be held on Wednesday, 28 April at 7.30pm at LIFRA Hall.

1. PC Mick May, who conducted the walk around Grand Union Place, will be delivering his report on how we could potentially improve security on our estate as soon as it is ready.
2. Watch out for people tailgating you; make sure the doors are closed behind you at all times. Do not allow people into the building if you don't know them.
3. There will be an increased police presence, thanks in part to the 78% majority vote for targeting policing operations achieved at the You Decide event in early February.
4. SNT will include more morning patrols. SNT conducted some early morning patrols and stopped some kids loitering in Candle Street junction with Harford Street.
5. The SNT will let us know about Danger Awareness courses available to us from the Home Office. These will recommence sometime in April.

Safer Neighbourhoods Team

Help the Safer Neighbourhoods Team by reporting any problems, no matter how small, so that they can take action. If more residents report these abuses, then we'll receive more "top priority" policing. Don't suffer in silence. Call 020 8721 2808. You can leave a message and this will be forwarded to patrolling officers (except when they are not on duty patrol).

For non-emergencies, or to report a crime which has already taken place, call 0300 123 1212 (Non-Urgent Police). In an emergency always dial 999.

Bike Marking Event

The Stepney Safer Neighbourhood Team will be holding a Bike Marking event:

Saturday, 20 March 

between 10am and 12 midday 

at The Memorial, Grand Union Place

If you would like your bike marked and registered with Immobilise please come along with your bike. Immobilise helps UK Police forces to identify the owner of lost & stolen goods thousands of times every day. For more details please go to http://www.immobilise.com/

Sky Dish - Tramway and Horseley Courts

The East Thames maintenance team are aware of the defective Sky dishes and are looking into it.  The expected turn-around will be at least a month.  Residents are advised not to call Sky, as they will be charged for an unnecessary call-out.

Request from Neighbourhood Watch

Residents are requested not to put bicycles on their balconies. This is an open invitation to thieves. Please do not encourage robbery in our neighbourhood by tempting criminals.

Temporary Office Closure at 91 Harford Street

East Homes will no longer use 91 Harford Street as the local neighbourhood office as of 25-Feb-2010. A temporary office will open at 60 Ben Jonson Road E1 3NN (opposite the Post Office). Residents requiring visitor permits can contact East Homes head office on 0208 522 3275 and speak to a Neighbourhood Assistant or call CES directly 0844 800 4944. If residents would like home visits they should contact 0208 522 3275 and arrange to see the Neighbourhood Manager, Mr Choudhury. A new office will open on 31-Mar-2010.