The Edgware Ward Panel is made up of 25 members who represent as many parts of the ward's community as possible. The purpose of the Ward Panel is "To be representative of the local community in managing community safety with a view to improving the quality of life to those who live, work or visit the ward". We do this by providing a conduit from people who live, work and deliver social services in the ward to the Edgware (Barnet) Safer Neighbourhood Team, and act as overseers of Public Priorities in relation to Problem Solving Processes (known as "PSPs" or "302s"). In order to achieve this, we meet six times every year to review crime statistics for the ward and using our members' local knowledge, combined with the experience of our Ward Sergeant and his SNT, try to determine where local Police resources should be focussed for the benefit of the ward as a whole.

 

If you would like to join the Edgware Ward Panel, or just like to know a bit more about us, please call the Ward Sergeant on 020 8721 2762 or 0774 779 1197, or have a chat with a member of the team at one of the surgeries or meetings.

Edgware Hub Team

Whilst the SNT look after almost all of Edgware Ward, the Barnet Safer Transport Team have a dedicated team to police Edgware Bus Station and the many bus routes that either terminate, or pass through, Edgware in parts of both Edgware and Hale wards. The Edgware Hub Team, as it is known, is staffed by Police Officers and PCSOs from "the Met" who wear exactly the same uniforms and have exactly the same powers as all other members of the Metropolitan Police Service. The Hub Team works in addition to the SNT, not in place of and a high degree of co-operation between the teams has been promised. We hope to have a dedicate Hub Team page on this site sometime in June 2009.

Edgware Underground Station

Policing responsibility of the Underground Station and the Northern Line trains, track, sidings and facilities falls to the British Transport Police.

 

To view the web site of the BTP area responsible for all of the Underground, please click here.

 

Reporting Crime

It is an anomaly that whilst crime figures in the ward are falling, fear of crime is rising. Both figures cannot be correct. The Ward Panel support the SNT in asking all members of the community to report crime, no matter how trivial you think it is. You can do this online by clicking here, or by telephone or person at Colindale Police Station, or by stopping a member of the SNT when you see them on the street.

 

Edgware is home to the North London Blood Bank. OK, it is technically just across the boundary in Burnt Oak Ward, but it is within The Greater Edgware Metropolitan Tri-Borough area and is such an important place for all of the communities of Edgware and the surrounding wards that we have decided to feature it here. If you can donate blood, you WILL save somebody's life, guaranteed, and that somebody will be someone else's Mum or Dad or brother or sister or son or daughter or husband or wife or partner or loved one. Got the message? Good