Community safety unit

What does the Community Safety Unit do?

The Community Safety Unit was established to work to improve the quality of life and keep residents, visitors and employees in the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham safe.

Residents consistently tell us that crime and the fear of crime and anti-social behaviour are their key concerns and we work to address those priorities.

Our role is to put actions in place to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour in the borough. Much of our work is strategic in nature and we work closely with other partners in the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership to achieve this aim.

Partners of the Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnership include:

- London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham
- British Transport Police 
- Metropolitan Police Authority 
- Hammersmith & Fulham Primary Care Trust 
- Metropolitan Police 
- London Fire Brigade 
- National Probation Service 
- The London Ambulance Service

The community safety unit deals with:

- Anti social Behaviour
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol crime
- Hate crime
- Racial harassment and Third Party Reporting
- Priority crimes such as burglary
- Young people and crime 
- Local crime statistics 
- Distraction Burglary
- fear of crime
- Neighbourhood Watch schemes

Publications from the Community Safety Unit:
Crime Reduction Partnership Plan 2008 to 2011 (pdf)
Racial Harassment leaflet (pdf)

Richard Vernon
Head of Community Safety Unit
The Housing Centre 
2nd Floor, 77 Glenthorne Road  
London W6 0LJ

Telephone:  020 8753 2814
Fax:  020 8753 2819
Email: csu@lbhf.gov.uk  or richard.vernon@lbhf.gov.uk