Wards policing
consultation forms - tell us what you think
About Safer City Wards
Safer City Wards is how we have implemented neighbourhood
policing in the Square Mile. (Metropolitan Police area will know it
as Safer
Neighbourhoods (opens in a new window)).
When the Government announced it was changing the way local
communities were policed, introducing this neighbourhood-policing
approach, most of us in the City felt we had been doing it for
centuries.
Here our style of wards policing has made our services very
accessible to our communities, and has enabled us to tailor our
services to each section of the community.
Adopting the neighbourhood-policing framework, though, goes even
further, changing the way our wards teams are structured and
extending neighbourhood policing beyond the wards team, beyond the
divisions and across the Force. It means working hand in hand with
our partners - particularly through our
Safer City Partnership to identify the issues that concern the
community and then working together to resolve those issues.
In a nutshell, it is putting what the community wants at the
heart of what we do and taking into account of the diverse needs of
our diverse community by offering people a range of ways to engage
with us.
Mike Bowron
City of London Police Commissioner