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After speaking to residents every week over the past months, the same message keeps coming back,& my residents feel unsafe.

Happy New Year Lancaster Gate residents.

After speaking to residents every week over the past months, the same message keeps coming back, my residents feel unsafe.

Sadly, we have seen crime become more brazen and frequent. We are lucky to have great officers in our Safer Neighbourhood Team ( SNT) but there are only two. We used to have 10 officers in our SNT.

Residents have told me a police presence would make them feel safer. Sadly our SNT is too thin on the ground and criminals know this.
Victims don’t bother to report crime anymore as they don’t believe the police will respond. This is a dangerous situation. We need a local police presence people can rely on and criminals fear.

As a Councillor, I do not have the power to request more police. It is the Mayor of London who allocates police resources in London and he has let Lancaster Gate residents down, so I am petitioning him for more police officers.

Please sign and forward on if you agree. 

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This article originally appeared on BBC News on 17 March. A Westminster councillor has accused the local authority of failing to protect residents and visitors from dangerous illegal car meets. Councillor Rachael Robathan, a Conservative representing Knightsbridge and Belgravia, said she has pressed the Labour administration for more than a year to introduce tougher measures. She is calling for the roundabout at the top of Exhibition Road to be resurfaced with a high‑friction material to deter racing and drifting, along with an injunction that would give police stronger enforcement powers. She said she organised a meeting at City Hall in January 2025 with cabinet support officers to push forward the resurfacing, where a quote was obtained for the work but no progress has followed. She told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: "It is really disappointing that this administration, despite my repeated calls over the last 15 months, has completely failed to implement measures which would keep our residents and visitors safe."