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Crime and anti-social behaviour (ASB), particularly drug dealing, are key concerns for Tollington residents. Islington Council and the Metropolitan Police are working together to tackle these issues and improve safety. While the police lead on drug enforcement, the Council supports through services like the Anti-Social Behaviour Service, Community Safety Team, and CCTV network. We also engage with residents and businesses, providing advice and support while addressing environmental improvements. Our ongoing efforts include increased police presence, enforcement actions, outreach patrols, and support for vulnerable individuals. We have created this page to update you on our actions.

Aim

Our aim is to ensure that the residents and visitors of Tollington feel safe regardless of their personal identity, the time of day, or how busy it is.

We know that how safe someone feels can be influenced by many factors – including age, gender expression, race, ethnicity, visible religious affiliation, and expression of sexuality, as well as how dark it is and how many people are outside.

We want residents to feel confident in reporting incidents and in the response they receive. We want you to tell us how you feel and what you would like to see change. We want to know how communities think we should be improving safety and community confidence, how we can better involve and engage communities in our work and how best we can communicate the work we do with you.

Get involved

  • Join us at an event to discuss crime and ASB in your area. See the Key Dates section on the right side of this page
  • Tell us about an issue in your area using our interactive map
  • Submit ideas for how your area could be improved to reduce crime and antisocial behaviour on our Ideas page

What are we doing to tackle crime and ASB?

Islington Council and the Metropolitan Police are committed to tackling crime and antisocial behaviour in Tollington.

We have:

  • Increased plain clothes and high visibility patrols by the Safer Neighbourhood Team and other specialist policing teams.

  • Police have been supported by Islington Council Parkguard officers who respond to reports of ASB to the council. Parkguard are also tasked weekly, based on intelligence, to complete proactive patrols in hot spot locations often with police or outreach teams.

  • We tasked outreach teams, including drug alcohol and health workers to engage with the street population.

  • In December 2023, the council successfully supported Wipers Youth, Jigsaw, Prospex and Leap in their bid to secure My Ends Funding© through the London Violence Reduction Unit for the wider Finsbury Park area.

  • Utilise an extensive 24/7 CCTV network and deploy temporary CCTV cameras to deter and detect crime.

  • Community Safety have co-ordinated work at specific hot spot locations to tackle the problems reported including environmental improvements to design out crime.

  • Identifying problematic addresses and utilising partnership working to support vulnerable people and use enforcement against perpetrators.

Be updated

What can you do?

Report crime and antisocial behaviour

Islington Police and Islington Council take every report of crime and antisocial behaviour seriously. Every report has an impact and allows us to direct resources to areas of high harm.

Drug dealing and drug taking should always be reported to the police as it is a crime and they must investigate. Do not report these issues to the council Anti-Social Behaviour reporting page or on this web page as it will not be investigated.

Report crime

  • All crime should be reported to the police. This includes drug dealing, drug taking, theft, abandoned vehicles, aggressive begging and crime taking place within a property
  • Report an emergency by phoning 999. An emergency is classified as an immediate risk to life, or likely risk to life
  • Report non-urgent crimes by phoning 101 or report online
  • You can also contact the safer Neighbourhood team to discuss reported drug related crimes via email: Tollington.snt@met.police.uk

Report anti-social behaviour

  • Anti-social behaviour (ASB) covers a wide range of unacceptable activity that causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to an individual from another household or to the community, or harm to the environment
  • Report antisocial behaviour to Islington Council using the online form. If you do not have access to the internet, you can call 020 7527 7272

Raise concerns about someone sleeping rough

If you are concerned about the wellbeing of someone who is sleeping rough on the streets, call StreetLink on 0300 500 0914 or visit the StreetLink website. This sends an alert to the local outreach team who will visit the location to make contact with the person.

Raise concerns about someone who is unwell

  • If you think someone is unwell, phone 999 and ask for an ambulance. This includes if someone has passed out or is heavily under the influence of drugs or alcohol

Crime and anti-social behaviour (ASB), particularly drug dealing, are key concerns for Tollington residents. Islington Council and the Metropolitan Police are working together to tackle these issues and improve safety. While the police lead on drug enforcement, the Council supports through services like the Anti-Social Behaviour Service, Community Safety Team, and CCTV network. We also engage with residents and businesses, providing advice and support while addressing environmental improvements. Our ongoing efforts include increased police presence, enforcement actions, outreach patrols, and support for vulnerable individuals. We have created this page to update you on our actions.

Aim

Our aim is to ensure that the residents and visitors of Tollington feel safe regardless of their personal identity, the time of day, or how busy it is.

We know that how safe someone feels can be influenced by many factors – including age, gender expression, race, ethnicity, visible religious affiliation, and expression of sexuality, as well as how dark it is and how many people are outside.

We want residents to feel confident in reporting incidents and in the response they receive. We want you to tell us how you feel and what you would like to see change. We want to know how communities think we should be improving safety and community confidence, how we can better involve and engage communities in our work and how best we can communicate the work we do with you.

Get involved

  • Join us at an event to discuss crime and ASB in your area. See the Key Dates section on the right side of this page
  • Tell us about an issue in your area using our interactive map
  • Submit ideas for how your area could be improved to reduce crime and antisocial behaviour on our Ideas page

What are we doing to tackle crime and ASB?

Islington Council and the Metropolitan Police are committed to tackling crime and antisocial behaviour in Tollington.

We have:

  • Increased plain clothes and high visibility patrols by the Safer Neighbourhood Team and other specialist policing teams.

  • Police have been supported by Islington Council Parkguard officers who respond to reports of ASB to the council. Parkguard are also tasked weekly, based on intelligence, to complete proactive patrols in hot spot locations often with police or outreach teams.

  • We tasked outreach teams, including drug alcohol and health workers to engage with the street population.

  • In December 2023, the council successfully supported Wipers Youth, Jigsaw, Prospex and Leap in their bid to secure My Ends Funding© through the London Violence Reduction Unit for the wider Finsbury Park area.

  • Utilise an extensive 24/7 CCTV network and deploy temporary CCTV cameras to deter and detect crime.

  • Community Safety have co-ordinated work at specific hot spot locations to tackle the problems reported including environmental improvements to design out crime.

  • Identifying problematic addresses and utilising partnership working to support vulnerable people and use enforcement against perpetrators.

Be updated

What can you do?

Report crime and antisocial behaviour

Islington Police and Islington Council take every report of crime and antisocial behaviour seriously. Every report has an impact and allows us to direct resources to areas of high harm.

Drug dealing and drug taking should always be reported to the police as it is a crime and they must investigate. Do not report these issues to the council Anti-Social Behaviour reporting page or on this web page as it will not be investigated.

Report crime

  • All crime should be reported to the police. This includes drug dealing, drug taking, theft, abandoned vehicles, aggressive begging and crime taking place within a property
  • Report an emergency by phoning 999. An emergency is classified as an immediate risk to life, or likely risk to life
  • Report non-urgent crimes by phoning 101 or report online
  • You can also contact the safer Neighbourhood team to discuss reported drug related crimes via email: Tollington.snt@met.police.uk

Report anti-social behaviour

  • Anti-social behaviour (ASB) covers a wide range of unacceptable activity that causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to an individual from another household or to the community, or harm to the environment
  • Report antisocial behaviour to Islington Council using the online form. If you do not have access to the internet, you can call 020 7527 7272

Raise concerns about someone sleeping rough

If you are concerned about the wellbeing of someone who is sleeping rough on the streets, call StreetLink on 0300 500 0914 or visit the StreetLink website. This sends an alert to the local outreach team who will visit the location to make contact with the person.

Raise concerns about someone who is unwell

  • If you think someone is unwell, phone 999 and ask for an ambulance. This includes if someone has passed out or is heavily under the influence of drugs or alcohol
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Tell us about an issue in Tollington

2 months

You are invited to tell us where antisocial behaviour and crime is happening, tell us what issues you are experiencing and when you are most affected using this mapping tool. 

This information will help us target our resources, such as outreach support or Parkguard and police patrols. this tool can also help us identify where environmental improvements can design out crime.  

Tell us about an issue in your area

1. Click the green button 'Go To Map'

2. On the left-hand side of the map, click the + symbol. This will bring up 6 pins, each outlining a different issue (e.g. drug taking).

3. Click and hold the pin you want to place, and move it to the exact location using your cursor.

4. Unclick to place the pin. Once placed, add a comment about the issues you're seeing. You can also add an image.

5. Add as many pins as you wish.

*IMPORTANT: you should not report crime or antisocial behaviour using this map. This is an interactive tool for you to tell us where your concerns are. If you are here to report crime or antisocial behaviour, click back to the main page and report using one of the options listed. We will use the results of this map to target crime prevention initiatives*

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Page last updated: 20 Nov 2024, 03:28 PM