Community safety
Creating a safer, better Barnet
The Community Safety team works with a range of partners (primarily the Police) to reduce and prevent crime and promote community safety in its widest sense. Their work includes:
- Anti social behaviour co-ordination
- Hate crime co-ordination
- Domestic Violence co-ordination
- CCTV (Closed-circuit television)
- Third Party Reporting sites - where victims can report crimes in a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere
Crime has been identified as one of the highest priority concerns for residents of the borough, despite actual crime figures showing Barnet time and again to be one of the safest boroughs in London.
Working together produces results
Barnet’s Safer Communities Partnership is working hard to change people’s perceptions, reassure all the borough’s communities and put in place effective and innovative schemes to cut crime and tackle the related issues, such as drug and alcohol misuse and enviro-crime.
In Barnet, we believe the way forward to create a safer, stronger community is by partnership working, between the council, police and a number of other organisations.
The public, private and voluntary groups which make up Barnet’s Safer Communities Partnership are:
- Barnet Council
- Metropolitan Police
- London Fire Brigade
- London Probation Service
- Barnet Primary Care Trust
- CommUNITY Barnet
In addition, board meetings are observed by representatives from:
More information
- Safer Communities Strategy for Barnet 2008-2011
(PDF:440KB) - The Barnet Crime and Disorder Substance Misuse Strategic Assessment summary (PDF:56KB)
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