Operated by: Metropolitan Police Service
https://www.met.police.uk/area/your-area/met/Islington/ClerkenwellCurrent Priorities
Issue
Theft Exmouth Market
Action
Targeted plain clothes and uniformed patrols, focusing on restaurants and licensed premises in order to detect, deter, displace offenders.
Engagement with premises management in order to discuss target hardening and customer awareness
Issue
Cuckooing is a behaviour where a person or persons control and or intimidate a vulnerable person in order to use their address for anti-social and or illegal activties.
Action
Police are proactively monitorning new reports coming in to establish if they may be linked to cuckooing.
When this is identified, officers will be adopting a multi-agency approach to provide support and assistance to the persons affected and taking positive action to identify, detain and prosecute those suspected of this behaviour.
Issue
Wilmington Sq/Granville Sq/Percy Circus - Ongoing reports of drug misuse and dealing of controlled drugs in this area.
Action
Police are actively patrolling and targetting this area, with a mix of uniform and plain clothes patrol, in order to proactively target those dealing controlled drugs in the area.
Liaision with St Mungo's hostels on Rosebery Avenue and Wharton Street as there is a belief that some of their residents are involved in this behaviour.
Upcoming Events
ASB Surgery
An indoor one-to-one consultation session.
Where: Finsbury Library 245 St John Street EC1V 4NB
When: 12 June 2025 at 14:00 - 12 June 2025 at 15:00
Bike marking scheme
A one-to-one consultation session in conjunction with bike marking.
Where: City University
When: 1 July 2025 at 11:00 - 1 July 2025 at 16:00
Ward Panel meeting
A meeting of the panel members to discuss local concerns and to and set priorities for the local police team.
Where: City University
When: 17 July 2025 at 18:00 - 17 July 2025 at 19:30