Safer Spaces - Tollington

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Crime and anti-social behaviour (ASB), particularly drug dealing, are key concerns for Tollington residents. Islington Council and the Metropolitan Police are working together to tackle these issues and improve safety. While the police lead on drug enforcement, the Council supports through services like the Anti-Social Behaviour Service, Community Safety Team, and CCTV network. We also engage with residents and businesses, providing advice and support while addressing environmental improvements. Our ongoing efforts include increased police presence, enforcement actions, outreach patrols, and support for vulnerable individuals. We have created this page to update you on our actions.

Aim

Our aim is to ensure that the residents and visitors of Tollington feel safe regardless of their personal identity, the time of day, or how busy it is.

We know that how safe someone feels can be influenced by many factors – including age, gender expression, race, ethnicity, visible religious affiliation, and expression of sexuality, as well as how dark it is and how many people are outside.

We want residents to feel confident in reporting incidents and in the response they receive. We want you to tell us how you feel and what you would like to see change. We want to know how communities think we should be improving safety and community confidence, how we can better involve and engage communities in our work and how best we can communicate the work we do with you.

Get involved

  • Join us at an event to discuss crime and ASB in your area. See the Key Dates section on the right side of this page

What are we doing to tackle crime and ASB?

We are continuing to work hard to reduce crime and ASB in Tollington, however, we appreciate there is more for us to do and thank you for your patience during this time.

We are:

Increasing Patrols: Both plain clothes and high visibility patrols by the Safer Neighbourhood Team and specialist police units. Police have conducted operations leading to arrests of shoplifters and drug-related crime suspects.

Parkguard Support: Parkguard officers have been working with the police team, conducting proactive patrols based on reports from residents.

CCTV Deployment: Utilising a 24/7 CCTV network and installed some temporary cameras in hot spot areas.

Environmental Improvements: Coordinating efforts to improve specific hot-spots to deter crime. We are planning Environmental Visual Audits to assess what physical improvements can be made to reduce the opportunity for crime and anti-social behaviour.

Community Engagement: We will be setting up some engagement events for residents to attend and speak with us about safety in the area. Keep an eye out for these dates in the Key Dates section.

Providing Support: Engaging vulnerable residents through joint shifts with outreach, drug, alcohol, and health services teams. There are 11 joint shifts per week between the outreach teams, with more individual shifts occurring each day.

Be updated
  • Visit this page for bi-weekly updates on the actions being taken by the police and council along with other partners
  • Sign up to MET Engage to get local updates from your local policing team

What can you do?

Report crime and antisocial behaviour

Islington Police and Islington Council take every report of crime and antisocial behaviour seriously. Every report has an impact and allows us to direct resources to areas of high harm.

Drug dealing and drug taking should always be reported to the police as it is a crime and they must investigate. Do not report these issues to the council Anti-Social Behaviour reporting page or on this web page as it will not be investigated.

Report crime

  • All crime should be reported to the police. This includes drug dealing, drug taking, theft, abandoned vehicles, aggressive begging and crime taking place within a property
  • Report an emergency by phoning 999. An emergency is classified as an immediate risk to life, or likely risk to life
  • Report non-urgent crimes by phoning 101 or report online
  • You can also contact the safer Neighbourhood team to discuss any concerns through Met Engage.

Report anti-social behaviour

  • Anti-social behaviour (ASB) covers a wide range of unacceptable activity that causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to an individual from another household or to the community, or harm to the environment
  • Report antisocial behaviour to Islington Council using the online form. If you do not have access to the internet, you can call 020 7527 7272

Raise concerns about someone sleeping rough

If you are concerned about the wellbeing of someone who is sleeping rough on the streets, call StreetLink on 0300 500 0914 or visit the StreetLink website. This sends an alert to the local outreach team who will visit the location to make contact with the person.

Raise concerns about someone who is unwell

  • If you think someone is unwell, phone 999 and ask for an ambulance. This includes if someone has passed out or is heavily under the influence of drugs or alcohol

Crime and anti-social behaviour (ASB), particularly drug dealing, are key concerns for Tollington residents. Islington Council and the Metropolitan Police are working together to tackle these issues and improve safety. While the police lead on drug enforcement, the Council supports through services like the Anti-Social Behaviour Service, Community Safety Team, and CCTV network. We also engage with residents and businesses, providing advice and support while addressing environmental improvements. Our ongoing efforts include increased police presence, enforcement actions, outreach patrols, and support for vulnerable individuals. We have created this page to update you on our actions.

Aim

Our aim is to ensure that the residents and visitors of Tollington feel safe regardless of their personal identity, the time of day, or how busy it is.

We know that how safe someone feels can be influenced by many factors – including age, gender expression, race, ethnicity, visible religious affiliation, and expression of sexuality, as well as how dark it is and how many people are outside.

We want residents to feel confident in reporting incidents and in the response they receive. We want you to tell us how you feel and what you would like to see change. We want to know how communities think we should be improving safety and community confidence, how we can better involve and engage communities in our work and how best we can communicate the work we do with you.

Get involved

  • Join us at an event to discuss crime and ASB in your area. See the Key Dates section on the right side of this page

What are we doing to tackle crime and ASB?

We are continuing to work hard to reduce crime and ASB in Tollington, however, we appreciate there is more for us to do and thank you for your patience during this time.

We are:

Increasing Patrols: Both plain clothes and high visibility patrols by the Safer Neighbourhood Team and specialist police units. Police have conducted operations leading to arrests of shoplifters and drug-related crime suspects.

Parkguard Support: Parkguard officers have been working with the police team, conducting proactive patrols based on reports from residents.

CCTV Deployment: Utilising a 24/7 CCTV network and installed some temporary cameras in hot spot areas.

Environmental Improvements: Coordinating efforts to improve specific hot-spots to deter crime. We are planning Environmental Visual Audits to assess what physical improvements can be made to reduce the opportunity for crime and anti-social behaviour.

Community Engagement: We will be setting up some engagement events for residents to attend and speak with us about safety in the area. Keep an eye out for these dates in the Key Dates section.

Providing Support: Engaging vulnerable residents through joint shifts with outreach, drug, alcohol, and health services teams. There are 11 joint shifts per week between the outreach teams, with more individual shifts occurring each day.

Be updated
  • Visit this page for bi-weekly updates on the actions being taken by the police and council along with other partners
  • Sign up to MET Engage to get local updates from your local policing team

What can you do?

Report crime and antisocial behaviour

Islington Police and Islington Council take every report of crime and antisocial behaviour seriously. Every report has an impact and allows us to direct resources to areas of high harm.

Drug dealing and drug taking should always be reported to the police as it is a crime and they must investigate. Do not report these issues to the council Anti-Social Behaviour reporting page or on this web page as it will not be investigated.

Report crime

  • All crime should be reported to the police. This includes drug dealing, drug taking, theft, abandoned vehicles, aggressive begging and crime taking place within a property
  • Report an emergency by phoning 999. An emergency is classified as an immediate risk to life, or likely risk to life
  • Report non-urgent crimes by phoning 101 or report online
  • You can also contact the safer Neighbourhood team to discuss any concerns through Met Engage.

Report anti-social behaviour

  • Anti-social behaviour (ASB) covers a wide range of unacceptable activity that causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to an individual from another household or to the community, or harm to the environment
  • Report antisocial behaviour to Islington Council using the online form. If you do not have access to the internet, you can call 020 7527 7272

Raise concerns about someone sleeping rough

If you are concerned about the wellbeing of someone who is sleeping rough on the streets, call StreetLink on 0300 500 0914 or visit the StreetLink website. This sends an alert to the local outreach team who will visit the location to make contact with the person.

Raise concerns about someone who is unwell

  • If you think someone is unwell, phone 999 and ask for an ambulance. This includes if someone has passed out or is heavily under the influence of drugs or alcohol

  • Safer Spaces Survey

    We know that crime and anti-social behaviour is of concern to residents and visitors of Tollington. Islington Council and the Metropolitan Police are aware that drug dealing, and drug use are of particular concern.  

    We are working closely to coordinate a multi-agency approach to address the issues affecting residents and visitors. This has included increased police presence, the use of enforcement powers to disrupt criminal activity, outreach patrols to engage with vulnerable people to offer support and engaging with businesses affected by the issues. 

    We recognise that hearing concerns and experiences of residents in the ward is key to us being able to effectively respond to your concerns, and that updating residents what actions we have taken as a result of your feedback is vital in improving community confidence.  

    How you can get involved 

    We are asking you to support us by completing this survey to tell us how we are doing and what more needs to be done. 

    The feedback we receive will help us direct our efforts to improve this approach and how we communicate using this platform in future.  

    We hope to use what we have learned from this survey to inform action plans and target resources to address the issues identified. 

    There will be a prize draw each month and one participant who has completed this survey will receive a £50 voucher.  

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Page last updated: 12 Jun 2026, 06:43 PM