Enfield Labour Calls for Public Feedback on Crime and Safety Concerns

Enfield Labour has today launched a survey for Enfield residents to tell us about their views on community safety in Enfield. The survey can be filled out here. This follows the letter from Cllr Ergin Erbil, the leader of Enfield Council to Sir Mark Rowley, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. In that letter, Cllr Erbil called on the Metropolitan Police to re-examine their decision to close the front counter at Edmonton Police Station, which would leave Enfield without a front counter for residents to report crime in person.

Cllr Erbil said “We’re building a safer Enfield thanks to support and funding from the Labour government and the Labour Mayor of London, and thanks to the hard work of our council, volunteers and community groups, and partners. Thanks to more funding and close partnership work, we’re cutting crime.

We’re really proud of the work we have done with the police recently. Operation Pisces in Edmonton led to over 800 arrests and counting as part of a Clear-Hold-Build project. We’ve also worked with the police and council officers on our Weekend Park and Town Centre Patrols over the summer, which led to a reduction in crime and antisocial behaviour across our parks. Residents and businesses told us they felt safer because of the extra presence and the high-visibility patrols in parks and town centres, including Pymmes Park, Jubilee Park, Town Park, Albany Park, and others.

Over 60 local venues have signed up to our Women’s Safety Charter, helping women and girls feel safer when travelling, working, or socialising.

We secured £420,000 from the Mayor of London’s Violence Reduction Unit to expand youth mentoring and diversion projects, alongside our ongoing youth clubs, Summer University, and street work.

We are also tackling extremism through staff training, school workshops, close work with the Police and Home Office, and building stronger links between local faith groups.

As Enfield’s Labour council we’ve introduced funds like the Opening Doors community fund, for groups in Ponders End and Edmonton to tackle serious violence. We’ve introduced security patrols on our council-owned housing estates.

We’ve also made sure that every neighbourhood has a named, contactable police sergeant, who is available to deal with local issues, thanks to funding from the government and our Mayor.

Community safety is one of Enfield Labour’s top priorities. By working together, we are reducing crime, preventing harm, and building a safer, stronger Enfield.

Fourteen years of Tory cuts to police budgets and to the number of police on our streets left Labour with a massive job to do, to take back control of our streets. The Tories left all public services underfunded, undervalued, and on their knees, including our frontline police teams.

We believe that Police should be closer to the communities they serve, so we are calling for a new Policing Hub for Enfield. This will provide Safer Neighbourhood officers with a dedicated base to improve our response to issues such as antisocial behaviour, theft, and vandalism.

Enfield Labour will always listen to our communities. They know what solutions work for their areas. I’d encourage as many Enfield residents as possible to fill out Enfield Labour’s Community Safety Survey, to let us know what they want from our Police and our Council Community Safety teams.