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London's communities are set to see an extra 2,000 officers in neighbourhood policing teams after the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games as part of the Metropolitan Police Service's total war on crime. And as part of the Met's approach for total victim care anyone who is a victim of crime will have the offer of police coming to visit them. The new proposals are part of a major new investment in neighbourhood policing beginning in the...

With the flurry of last-minute shopping as the days to Christmas tick down, and festive events and parties filling our calendars, Transport for London and the Metropolitcan Police have issued advice to help shoppers and revellers alike stay safe and avoid crime this December. Busy tubes and buses can be home to opportunist thefts, and police note a spike in pickpocketing and handbag theft around this time of year. TfL advise...

Police have released CCTV footage of a man they wish to speak to in connection with an attack in Archway last month. A 24-year old woman was attacked in her doorway on September 17 this year as she returned home around 4.30am. Her attacker hit her several times on the back of the head with a brick, running off when the victim's screams alerted her family. The man is described as being a light-skinned black man with a high forehead,...

The Metropolitan Police Service is asking Londoners what they feel police priorities should be for the next year. The online survey gives everyone living and working in the capital an opportunity to let the Met know about the issues that are most important to them. Crime in Highgate has historically been fairly low compared to other areas of London, but the area is not completely crime-free. Musician DJ Ironik was stabbed near his home...

Highgate Magistrates' Courtwas closed on Thursday and Friday following extraordinary scenes in which a group of youths chased two teenaged boys into the court building and attacked them with weapons. Two youths aged 14 and 15 were taken to hospital - one with a head injury and the other for injury to the torso area - and later arrested in connection with the affray, which began on the street outside the court at around 11.45am on...

A review of Safer Neighbourhoods Teams (SNTs) in the Metropolitan police area has recommended a reduction in the number of dedicated constables and community support officers working full time in local wards. The proposals are due to be debated at the Metropolitan Police Authority tomorrow. Launched in 2006, Safer Neighbourhoods provides a network of local teams across London to address crime at a neighbourhood level. The teams...

The rapper and anti knife-crime campaigner DJ Ironik has spoken about a stabbing attack that left him hospitalised last November, and his family's decision to leave Highgate following the incident. The grime star, real name James Charters, was attacked and robbed by two men wearing hooded tops on the way home from a gig the early hours of 6 November last year. Charters told The Sun newspaper, "Because of the adrenalin that was...

Hazelville Road Gardens has been transformed from a grim public space associated with crime and anti-social behaviour into a bright new play space thanks to work by Islington's Creating Safer Communities. The work was marked with a community day at Hornsey Lane Estate Community Centre in Hazellville Road. The park was until recently a notorious area for robbery and drug use. The site has been transformed by removing high brick walls...

In an incident befitting his stage name, the rap artist and anti-knife campaigner DJ Ironik was stabbed near his Highgate home in the early hours of Saturday morning. Ironik, real name James Charters, was returning home from a gig in Southend-on-Sea when he was approached by two men wearing dark clothes and hooded tops. The men stabbed Charters in the buttock, seized jewellery and fled the scene. The jewellery was later recovered, but...

Good news for residents on Hillcrest who have been coping with break-ins, mysterious men operating power tools in the middle of the night and people clambering about on roofs at all hours. Not to mention those that have had ladders and tools bags thrown at them by fleeing intruders. The police and Ofcom are now taking the pirate radio problem seriously. That means increased police patrols and more rapid response from police and the...