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Find out how to keep safe and prevent crime.
Crime prevention activities promote personal safety and target issues such as domestic burglary, street and vehicle crime.
The SafetyNet Partnership have a crime prevention van to enable crime prevention activity to be targeted more closely at communities throughout the borough. The van incorporates side opening doors that open into a wide area.
The van is wheelchair accessible and fully equipped with a wide range of information leaflets and crime prevention products. Inside the rear of the vehicle is a small office area to facilitate private discussions or interviews on sensitive matters.
The vehicle will be widely used for community safety crime prevention events as well as being used by the police, accident prevention unit and other partners.
There are things you can do to make it much less likely that you'll become a victim of crime. We want to raise the level of awareness about some of the community safety issues in Waltham Forest.
‘Acquisitive crime’ covers all crimes where items are stolen or acquired fraudulently. This covers aspects of theft, robbery including street crime, vehicle crime, residential burglary, as well as business and retail crime, which includes shoplifting, fraud and counterfeiting.
You can contribute to the fight against crime by protecting yourself and your property.
Police are warning residents to be vigilant and properly secure their homes following a spate of burglaries. Officers say that criminals are targeting houses and flats with uPVC doors because homeowners are not locking them correctly.
To avoid becoming a victim of burglary, members of the public who have a uPVC front or back door must lift the handle, turn the key fully and then check the door is securely locked.
Most doors have a five-lever dead bolt system which is activated when the inside handle is lifted upwards. If uPVC doors are not locked properly, all but the central bolt can be disarmed and burglars can force the door relatively easily.
Read the police warning on UPVC door burglaries (PDF)
Police are also warning residents not to put their home or car keys near their front door because opportunistic thieves are fishing them through letterboxes and then using them to steal cars or break into the house at a later time.
HEET fits energy efficiency and home security measures, free of charge for older people and low income residents living in Waltham Forest.
Visit the HEET project for more information.
For your quickest route home, live travel updates and last tube and train times contact Transport for London (TfL) travel information on 020 7222 1234 or visit the TfL website.
There are more night buses and night bus routes than ever before, all of which are fitted with CCTV. If you feel unsafe on a bus try to sit downstairs, close to the driver. The following 24 hour bus and night routes serve Waltham Forest:
Read The Little Book of Big Scams produced by the Metropolitan Police (PDF file) or visit the Met Police website.
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