10 December 2025
The police have issued an appeal for information about a shooting and stabbing incident in Palmers Green that occurred in June this year. They have released photographs of three suspects.
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12 November 2025
A recent walkabout of reported crime and ASB hotspots in Palmers Green by councillors and senior police officers was prompted by a letter from the local MP passing on concerns from constituents about incidents such as drug dealing carried out in broad daylight, leading to some residents 'withdrawing from their community' due to 'fear and lack of trust'.
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24 September 2025
This month's edition of Safer Neighbourhoods News for Palmers Green ward is now available.
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04 September 2025
On Saturday 6th September the Right2Thrive UK project will open a pioneering Wellbeing Hub in Edmonton Green, designed to tackle the local community's severe problems of youth violence and social inequality.
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29 August 2025
After two men with stab wounds were admitted to the North Middlesex Hospital in the early hours of Thursday morning, police set up a crime incident in Green Lanes, south of the North Circular Road.
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30 July 2025
Community Support Officer Jennifer Arkwright has information on recent burglaries in Palmers Green Ward and advice for everyone on how to keep burglars out.
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09 July 2025
PCSO Jenny Arkwright from the Palmers Green Ward Safer Neighbourhood Team invites members of the public in her ward (and all other wards) to join the Met Engage scheme.
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14 June 2025
Sections of at least four streets in Palmers Green remained cordoned off until the late afternoon on Friday 13th June as police and forensics officers continued to investigate an incident involving gunshots and a stabbing in town centre that occurred in the late evening on Thursday and left the stab victim with life-threatening injuries.
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19 March 2025
Southgate Club director Nicole Charitou summarises the discussions at last Friday's 'Walk, Talk and Do Initiative' meeting dedicated to the subject of girls' and womens' feelings about their safety in Southgate town centre.
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05 March 2025
The Southgate Ward Safer Neighbourhood Team, together with the council's Journeys and Places Team and the Met Police, are running an event on 14th March to find out women's feelings about their safety in Southgate town centre.
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11 February 2025
In the face of a significant spike in pedestrian deaths on London's roads, road danger reduction campaigners are calling on the Metropolitan Police to pay significantly more attention to reducing road danger and eliminating casualties on the capital's roads. You too can join them in responding to a consultation on crime and policing which ends this Wednesday.
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03 February 2025
Officers from safer neighbourhood teams will be providing free anti-theft bike marking at Dr Bike sessions throughout the borough during February. There will be a session at Palmers Green Library on Thursday 6th February between 4pm and 7pm.
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10 September 2024
The police have issued a statement and appeal for information after a teenage boy was found in Green Lanes, Palmers Green, with stab wounds on Monday afternoon. London Ambulance Service sent a helicopter, which landed in Broomfield Park. The victim's condition was assessed as not life threatening or life changing.
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11 May 2024
A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a pensioner in Millicent Grove, Palmers Green, on 7th May.
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21 February 2024
The Metropolitan Police have launched a survey with the aim of finding out Londoners' views about stop and search.
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06 February 2024
Police are treating the New Year's Day fire in St John the Evangelist church as arson. It was preceded by a campaign of misogynistic harrassment of the vicar, Rev Julie Coleman. Repairs and redecoration will cost 'tens of thousands' and the church may be out of use for six months.
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20 December 2023
Images of two crashes in Palmers Green this week. How can we put an end to reckless driving? Why is it not at the top of the police's priorities? Why do magistrates award such lenient sentences to people who endanger the public?
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27 November 2023
Karl Brown, chair of the Palmers Green Ward Panel (CAPE), provides advice about ways of reporting crime.
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27 November 2023
'Report, report and report.' That was the key message for us all emerging from the latest PG CAPE, writes its chair, Karl Brown. Without information, crime statistics will be misleading, and with many more eyes and ears across our community than the police can muster, we are ideally placed to provide intel on potential and actual bad things.
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