Safer Neighbourhood Panels
Safer Neighbourhood Panels (sometimes also called 'Boards') are in place in every London Borough, bringing police and communities together to decide local policing and crime priorities, solve problems collaboratively and make sure that the public are involved in a wide range of other community safety decisions.
The Safer Neighbourhood Panels priorities and core functions are:
- To enable local engagement with the Police;
- To enable local accountability of the police;
- To focus on the Police and Crime Plan key principles and priorities
- To monitor crime performance and public perceptions
- To inform the development of policing priorities in the borough
- To monitor the Metropolitan Police Service support for the delivery of ward panels and community contact sessions
- To engage with the Borough Independent Advisory Groups and other local mechanisms (e.g. neighbourhood watch and stop and search community monitoring groups) to support and inform their work across the borough.
Norwood Forum is endeavouring to attend these SNB meetings for the four wards in our area, click on these links for more information on each: Knights Hill, Gipsy Hill, West Dulwich and St Martins.
These are public meetings, and we will do our best to publish the dates and locations with as much notice as we can provide so you can attted too. We will list these on our Events pages.
If you would like to know more about these meetings, please get in touch: info@norwoodforum.org
The safety of our community is a high priority for Norwood Forum. However, we have taken the decision to end our role as a co-host of the Community Safety Partnership (CSP) with the Lambeth Safer Neighbourhood Board.
An initiative led by our committee colleague Philip Virgo, the CSP will transistion to become a pilot community cluster, co-hosted by the Lambeth Neighbourhood Watch Association, working with and through the local area Neighbourhood Watches and Safe Neighbourhood Panels. Philip is the Development Lead for Neighbourhood Watch for Lambeth.
There are several reasons we have mutually agreed to end our hosting relationship:
1. Data protection: The CSP holds a separate database for distribution of its monthly newsletter. This does not comply with our
Privacy Policy.
2. Accountability: The CSP is described as a 'partnership of equals, not accountable to the Norwood Forum', which makes it very difficult for us to act as a responsible host.
3. Coverage: The CSP has a scope and ambition that expands beyond the geographical area of the Norwood Forum. With our limited resources, we must focus our efforts on our local community in Tulse Hill, West Norwood and Gipsy Hill.
Norwood Forum will continue to maintain key information on community safety on our website under the Useful Info menu tab. This includes
Personal Safety and Help and
Emergency Services, as well as latest news and events on matters of community safety via all of its information platforms - and in doing so will maintain a close working relationship with the CSP.
We plan to have a committee representative attend each of the four Safer Neighbourhood Panel meetings in our area (West Dulwich, St Martin's, Knight's Hill and Gipsy Hill), so we can directly raise issues of concern with the police and keep our community informed on what they are saying as well. We will publish the information gathered on dedicated pages under this Community Safety tab.
What are your main safety concerns?
Please let Norwood Forum know so we can most effectively direct our energies to the issues that matter the most to our community:
info@norwoodforum.org.
You should report all crime by dialling 101: the Police non-urgent crime reporting and enquiries number, or see here on the
Metropolitan Police website for other ways of contacting them, and
here on our website for other police-related advice.
