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Rise in drug taking and dealing on the Harringay Ladder passage way

I am increasingly concerned about the level of open drug taking and dealing on the passageway by people both in groups and on their own. I have seen this even on the school run at 8am by the local primary school. I would like to ask local councillors, 'safer' neighbourhood police and the community safety teams (if indeed there are any left) what is proactively being done to address this? I have barely seen any police presence on the Ladder for a while.

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Permalink Reply by MD on October 7, 2019 at 9:01

Yep, we've noticed this too. Do we have any community police assigned to this area any more? It certainly doesn't feel like it. 

Permalink Reply by Hugh on October 7, 2019 at 10:56

Yes, there is still a neighbourhood policing team. They now run what they call Street briefings roughly once a week. You can find details about this month's here.

I'm not sure how well patronised they are. The "events" are listed giving the location as a road only. I suppose you go to the road at the appointed time and spot the police. You can then chat with them about any issues of concern.

They also attend the Ladder Community Safety Partnership (LCSP) sessions on the second Thursday of every month. They are held at 7.00pm in the back room of the single storey building next to the church at the bottom of Allison Road.

As the name tells us, the LCSP was established with policing in mind. But it also has a planning focus and will pick up on other issues that any of the open-to-all-meeting attendees want to discuss.

The Harringay Met Police Neighbourhood policing pages are as follows:

If you're particularly concerned about an issue, you can attend any of these meetings. It's also worth raising the matter with your local councillors and local MP.
Permalink Reply by Shar on October 8, 2019 at 10:28

Thanks Hugh, those are useful bits of info.

Though I do often wonder do the cops not notice the drug activity unless there's a critical mass of local resident outrage? 

Permalink Reply by Hugh on October 8, 2019 at 11:11

They do, but, as I'm sure you've heard, cutbacks mean that resources are very limited.

My understanding is that following major operations tagretting drug delaing around Duckett's Common/Turnpike Lane a couple of years back, the dealing was displaced in our direction. 

Permalink Reply by MD on October 8, 2019 at 10:56

Thank Hugh, that's really useful info.

Permalink Reply by Michele on October 16, 2019 at 0:24

The link for St Ann's seems to show one of the crime hotspots being St Ann's Hospital - very strange!!

Permalink Reply by Michele on October 16, 2019 at 0:29

All of the meetings you refer to seem to be on the ladder according to the link provided???

Permalink Reply by Hugh on October 16, 2019 at 9:41

I’m not sure which particular link you were talking about. I provided four links in my comment. First link was to meetings regarding the Haringey Ladder because this thread is about drug dealing in the Passage. Further down in that comment there are also links for the police in St Ann’s and Seven Sisters wards as well. Hope you can find what you need by following one of those.

Permalink Reply by Hugh on October 16, 2019 at 12:00

PS: The next combined St Ann's & Seven Sisters Street Briefing is listed at www.harringayonline.com/events/st-ann-s-ward-neighbourhood-police-s...

Permalink Reply by John McMullan on October 7, 2019 at 11:59

I don’t disagree that perhaps the passage enables this, but pre school run dealing is quite common and trickier to do on the ladder because of the one-way system for the dealer’s cars.

Permalink Reply by Mavic Starfish on October 8, 2019 at 12:41

Unfortunately I see blatant + not so blatant drug dealing on a daily basis just outside Turnpike Lane right now and even pointed it out to a fully loaded police car, who were there to target fare dodgers.  If it was displaced its back again with a vengeance - 2 x stabbings at the top of Langham Road a few weeks ago, turf warfare  https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/two-arrested-after-three-men-...

Permalink Reply by John McMullan on October 15, 2019 at 19:19

I mean that it's not so obvious when it's done inside a car. Dealer drops by when you call them at 7am because you're coming down and you hop outside into their car. They drive along a bit, you swap cash for a bag and then you get out and go back inside to your friends.

Getting your drugs from kids in the street should be a bigger crime than selling them.

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