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Local Police Response - 2010 Style

Safer Neighbourhood Policing was launched by the Metropolitan Police in April 2004. So...after more than six years how is it working out?Yesterday morning at 7:45am in broad daylight after being awoken by a tapping sound I spotted a stranger standing next to my car in the drive of my house. By the time I'd put on dressing gown and slippers and unlocked the front door he had disappeared. When my wife got in the car to go to work at 8:45 am she saw that the front offside small window of the car had been shattered.At 9:30am my son called me on his way to work to tell me that the passenger door of a van had been smashed just 50 yards from my house. Later in the morning I found out a neighbour across the road had his car front door window smashed.I got onto the Met's web site and noted the two telephone numbers for my Ward (Cleveland) Safer Neighbourhood Police (SNP). I called both numbers (020 8721 2920 and 07879 694696). I got no reply to either number and to my amazement neither number offered me the opportunity to leave a message.I then emailed the Cleveland SNP using the email address on the Met web site.At 6:30pm last night I called both telephone numbers again and got no answer and no messaging service from either. This morning at 10:15am I called both numbers and got no response. I've had no response to my email.14,000 people live in Cleveland Ward. Its population is the same as the Cathedral City of Eley in Cambridgeshire. Eley has a Police Station which is open six days a week. Cleveland Ward Ealing has no Police Station and the Cleveland Police don't answer phone calls or emails. So quite how does this constitute a local Police service? Can anyone advise me here?

Eric Alan Leach ● 5362d9 Comments

You were lucky you were not arrested and prosecuted for harrassing the burglars  by complaining about them. Ealing Police are not interested in the law they are obsessed with Political Correctness and targets. A friend of mine was (unsuccessfully) prosecuted by some very rude, corrupt, and unpleasant police for assault when he tried to act the "Good Citizen". Ealing Police view the residents of Ealing as a problem, not as employers.

Eugene Wroblewsi ● 5349d

The Borough commander or his Superintendent - Community will be there to answer questions such as these.S

Sue Kendrick ● 5352d

This is all well and good.But why has no Police or PCSO person contacted me about my giving  them a description of the man who was breking into cars and vans in daylight in The Draytons early morning 8th November, 2010? I'm more interested in action than attending a talk shop.

Eric Alan Leach ● 5352d

Ealing Community & Police Consultative Group will be meeting in the Liz Cantell room at the Town Hall on Wednesday 24 November at 7pm.  (Refreshments from 6.30pm) Come and have your say. More details from the Group Secretary on 020 8896 0925 or ecpcg@btconnect.com

Sue Kendrick ● 5353d

whoops - try againhttp://www.ealingtoday.co.uk/default.asp?section=community&spage=common/conpolicesurvey001.htm

Editor ● 5360d

There is a current online MPS consultation following Halloween/Bonfire Night  - but it ends soon.How Are Local Police Performing?Your views required for online surveyhttp://www.ealingtoday.co.uk/default.asp?section=community&spage=common/conpolicesurvey001.htm:Annemarie

Editor ● 5360d

Does this sad tale also indicate that the new Commander needs to get on his bike now to ensure that we have better police communications while under his watch. I hope he has had a good long think about the website and perhaps runs a consultation on how the police should tell the community on what they are doing.

George Knox ● 5360d

Thanks for that Robert.As it happens I bumped into a Cleveland PCSO yesterday in Cleveland Park, and he emailed me a response last night.The 020 8721 2920 is an official telephone number for Cleveland SNT Police and he was very surprised that it didn't work on the three occasions I rang it. He had no idea why the 07879 694696 was on the Met Police web site as a Cleveland SNT Police telephone number. However he is new in the job and it may be an old number. This is worrying as it implies that the Met Police web site is not maintained properly.

Eric Alan Leach ● 5360d

Eric, Try this mobile 07879 69496 for PC Steve Robinson of Cleveland SNT and there is a drop-in surgery at Pitshanger Library from 1730-1900hrs on the 16th November which may be helpful as a follow-up. For a crime report number Ealing via 0300 123 1212 but for effective local policing the SNT sergeant or PC need to know of these incidents and you may have a good description to relay. A few uniforms in the area would be helpful too.From our local viewpoint the Metropolitan Police Authority is selling off perfectly sited police stations (Norwood Green just being sold and Greenford next in the frame) instead of keeping them as bases for the SNT teams leading to some odd locations such as under a GWR railway arch (NG) or Sainsburys (WE). This would be against the wishes of many residents including local officers as a show of hands at ward forums would indicate. Hope that Chief Superintendent Andy Rowling uses some clout to save Greenford and reopens Hanwell at least for SNT teams, but hasn`t managed to reverse MPA policy so far.           

Robert Darke ● 5360d