Crime and Policing

This month's edition of Safer Neighbourhoods News for Palmers Green ward is now available.

The police have issued a statement and appeal for information after a teenage boy was found in Green Lanes, Palmers Green, with stab wounds on Monday afternoon. London Ambulance Service sent a helicopter, which landed in Broomfield Park. The victim's condition was assessed as not life threatening or life changing.

A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a pensioner in Millicent Grove, Palmers Green, on 7th May.

The Metropolitan Police have launched a survey with the aim of finding out Londoners' views about stop and search.

Police are treating the New Year's Day fire in St John the Evangelist church as arson. It was preceded by a campaign of misogynistic harrassment of the vicar, Rev Julie Coleman. Repairs and redecoration will cost 'tens of thousands' and the church may be out of use for six months.

This month's edition of Safer Neighbourhoods News for Winchmore Hill ward is now available.

Karl Brown, chair of the Palmers Green Ward Panel (CAPE), provides advice about ways of reporting crime.

'Report, report and report.' That was the key message for us all emerging from the latest PG CAPE, writes its chair, Karl Brown. Without information, crime statistics will be misleading, and with many more eyes and ears across our community than the police can muster, we are ideally placed to provide intel on potential and actual bad things.

This month's edition of Safer Neighbourhoods News for Winchmore Hill ward is now available.

Enfield Council is seeking input from residents and businesses to help develop its Serious Violence Duty Strategy for the period 2024-25.