Join Us - This Thursday for a Safer Communities Engagement Day - Tredegar Square 9am-12 midday and 5-7PM

 

Concerned about Crime and ASB levels in our streets?

This Thursday morning and evening the Borough’s Community Safety Team, Police Safer Neighbourhood Teams and community safety partners will be in Tredegar Square.

In the morning (9-12) the council's safer communities mobile unit will be available with safer communities officers on board, as well as  police officers and Tower Hamlets Enforcement Officers (THEOs). There will be opportunities for residents to speak to their local Safer Neighbourhood Operations team, report any issues and seek advice.

In the evening (5-7PM) there will be a walkabout which gives residents a chance to highlight concerns of crime and anti-social behaviour (ASB) in our neighbourhood. You will have the opportunity to speak directly to senior officers in the police, council and partner agencies about your local concerns and emerging crime and ASB issues.

This is your Chance to let the powers that be know your concerns

There is an increasing tendency for those who live outside our 13 MEOTRA streets to think we live in some insulated bubble. But we don't. It is more Truman Show. Things may appear all hunky-dory from the outside, but the sirens don't always go past. They often stop.

Actually post-lockdown it has been a particularly tough 12 months or so in our area with residents suffering significant levels of Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB), numerous muggings (often unreported), a growth in car crime (again mostly unreported) as well as a several fatalities on our streets.

Any ideas/solutions?

Pop along and let the police and other parties know what you think they could, or indeed should, be doing to tackle problems.

Increased lighting on Lichfield Road, securing Tredegar Square Gardens from dawn to dusk (like it was for many years), tackling the Morgan/Tredegar Square/College Terrace accident Black Spot, the NOx-related ASB on Clinton/Lichfield/Morgan/YouNameIt. Which of these register with you or do you have problems you wish to highlight?

Location: Tredegar Square

Date: 26th January

Time: 9-12; 5-7

If you are unable to come, but have concerns you wish to raise, then please email info@meotra.org.uk and our Chair will make sure your concerns are passed on.

Accident Crash Map

Anti-Social Behaviour in Tredegar Square

The other week Anti-Social Behaviour reached a new low in Tredegar Square with a car being driven into the middle of Tredegar Square one night for a party.

Since COVID first came to town Tower Hamlets Council have stopped locking the Square. This was understandable when we were all trying to maintain social distancing and going for exercise at all hours. But now it is just being done to save money.

Apparently our balloon blowing, happy crack NOX inhaling visitors, decided to open up the Square's gates and drove a car into the park at around 10.30 one night. They continued to clown around with their balloon party packs until the police came along with their blues and twos flashing.

If you witnessed this bizarre incident please get in touch with any further details you may have so MEOTRA can put this to the council and local police team. Any photos would be especially welcome.

Currently the under-resourced police are having to come far too often to sort out this easily preventable ASB. We know the police have better things to do with their time and are ramping up our efforts to get the gates locked like they have have been for many, many years.

Safer Communities Engagement Day in Tredegar Square (26/01/2023)

On Thursday the 26th January 2023 our council's safer communities mobile unit will be coming to Tredegar Square. It will be here 9am to 12pm and there will be a safety walkabout from 5PM-7PM.

It will provide us with a face to face opportunity to speak with the police, council officers and partner agencies about our local concerns. If you unable to attend, or are shy, then please drop us a note with any concerns (What, When, Where etc) and we will pass it on anonymously for you.

Information about police ward panel meetings will also be available ( this was discussed in a previous MEOTRA post recently).

Safer Neighbourhood Meeting 22nd February

Residents may wish to attend the above meeting. In recent months MEOTRA has received numerous reports about ASB and suspected drug dealing in our area and the above meeting will provide an ideal opportunity to help shape policing priorities.

Drug dealing seems to be taking place on 4-5 of our streets in particular. Typically, deals follow the pattern: man waits on street; flash car drives up; window slides down; quick exchange of "stuff" and then they both go their separate ways. 

Both PC Megan Bushell of Bow West Safer Neighbourhood Team and Cllr Josh Peck are aware of the issue and ask that we call 101 to report people waiting on street corners for deals. Give as much info as you can (time, car number plates, descriptions, etc).

Each week the police allocate a portion of their resources according to reported crime. So regular reports do make a difference. 

Our Annual General Meeting: This Thursday Evening

This Thursday evening is MEOTRA's Annual General Meeting at 7.30PM in the Epiphanus church, Lichfield Rd.

The agenda is below, but we are particularly pleased to have two guest speakers: A TFL representative to discuss the CS2 Cycle superhighway upgrade taking place literally on some of our doorsteps; and Megan Bushell from the Metropolitan Police's local neighbourhood team.

This is a rare opportunity to raise any issues you may have regarding the CS2 scheme (ie the introduction of two banned right turns from Burdett Road into Mile End Road and also Mile End Road into Burdett Road)

Megan from the Metropolitan Police, who is I'm sure already known to many residents, will discuss issues including anti-social behaviour in Clinton Road and the increase in burglaries in Lichfield Road.

Please do make an effort to come along and raise any questions and voice any concerns you may have.

Agenda:

1. Welcome
2. Apologies for absence
3. Minutes of 2014 AGM
4. Treasurer’s Report 
5. Chairman’s Report
6. Election of committee officers
7. Any other business
8. Guest Speaker from TFL discussing the CS2 Cycle Superhighway followed by questions
9. Guest Speaker Metropolitan Police Officer Megan Bushell followed by questions
10. Close of AGM