Tower Hamlets Council holds regular community engagement events, including Community Safety walks, which are also attended by Tower Hamlets Police officers.

There are now three types of events

• The Engagement van parks up in a street of a ward and speaks to passers by, giving crime prevention advise, also inviting people to join Neighbourhood Watch. Some free gadgets or safety goods are available, whilst stocks last.
  
• Community events stall, available during estate festivals, where a stall is available and a CCTV van is also nearby.
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• Safety Walks with Met Police officers, Tower Hamlets and Tower Hamlets Homes enforcement officers, councillors, ward panel chairs and residents.
  

We regularly participate in such events, but as being volunteers, we need more community members, who are free at the time of the events to participate.

In our most recent walks, we saw no councillors or ward panel chairs taking part.

However Tower Hamlets councillors helped promote Neighbourhood Watch at a special walkabout on Chrisp Street Market a couple of months ago.

The number of events has increased considerably with this current council administration. Additionally knife bins also have been recently installed, for which we have asked too.

What is important and can be done in your own time, is create your own local community group and you are able to do so by using the Ourwatch website to use a custom-made, mapped local community Watch group. Register here to do so and contact us or help if needed.

Metropolitan Police organise and hold regular Ward Panels, in each of the 20 wards in Tower Hamlets. Those ward panels set the policing priorities in a ward. That includes were police allocate more time and officers to patrol. Register with OWL to get newsletters from Tower Hamlets Police about this.

• Business Watch
• Crime Prevention
• Events
• Neighbourhood Watch
• Patrols
• Volunteers