We have received the attached letter Letter from Mayor of London Re More Police, Safer Streets with regards to our petition where we collected over 800 signatures and presented this to the London Mayor via our GLA Representative Keith Prince.
This response is very disappointing especially as we have seen increases of Knife Crime, Anti-Social Behaviour, Drug Use and Dealing within the Harold Wood and Harold Hill areas which comprise of three wards – Harold Wood, Gooshays and Heaton Wards. Recent stabbings and fatalities along with anti-social behaviour in our communities demonstrate that our local Safer neighbourhood Police Teams are in need of more Police resource. In our petition we stated that the Policing ratio for this area we believe is insufficient and more Police Officers should be allocated to these areas and that residents would like to see more regular patrols, more ‘stop and search’ powers and more education about drug running (County Lines) to our young and vulnerable residents. Unfortunately, it seems that none of this was taken into account.
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