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Police are appealing for help and information after a woman sustained serious injuries during an unprovoked assault in Seven Sisters Road, N4, on Friday, 15 February 2013. The pregnant victim, aged in her 30s, was assaulted underneath the bridge by Finsbury Park LT Station at approximately 6.30pm by a man. She sustained a facial injury believed caused by a knife and a shoulder injury. She was taken to hospital and later released....

Action from Islington Police and Islington Council has led to the closure of two suspected "crack houses" in Finsbury Park. Highbury Magistrates' Court granted a Drug Closure Order at a flat in Seven Sisters Road, which runs until 20 January, and another at a flat in Williamson Street, which runs until 26 March. Islington Police, in partnership with the council and Circle 33 Housing Trust, secured the closure orders...

A former off-licence boss was been given 120 hours of community service and a £1,000 bill on Thursday after illicit alcohol and tobacco was found in his shop. Officers from Islington Council Trading Standards team and HMRC visited Supreme Supermarket at 171 Seven Sisters Road, N4, run at the time by Ozkan Ulgudur, on February 24. They seized 30 bottles of illicit Glen's Vodka, 8000 illicit Marlboro cigarettes, and 2.75kg of...

London's communities are set to see an extra 2,000 officers in neighbourhood policing teams after the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games as part of the Metropolitan Police Service's total war on crime. And as part of the Met's approach for total victim care anyone who is a victim of crime will have the offer of police coming to visit them. The new proposals are part of a major new investment in neighbourhood policing beginning in the...

Police are asking the public to be vigilant and appealing for witnesses and information following several recent late night robberies in the grounds of Finsbury Park. The most recent incident took place between about 0300 and 0330 hours on Saturday 15 October. The victim, a 39 year-old man, was sitting on a bench in the park, near the running track, on the Manor Road side of the park, when he was approached by a group of about five or...

What can we do to make our neighbourhood safer? Identify a problem Find a solution Make it work! Who can take part? Primary and secondary schools, youth groups, ... Entrants will be split by age; under 11, 11-14, 15-19 SNAC projects should be imaginative, practical, affordable, sustainable and locally based. To support you, funding is available up to £200 per project and your local safer neighbourhoods officer is available...

Did anyone spot BoJo this at Finsbury Park Station this morning, talking about how crime on the capital's transport network has decreased? The Mayor chose our local Tube stop as the setting for his talk on how crime has dropped by up to 30% on London's buses, trains and tubes; a figure that is way ahead of crime in general. More information can be found here

A survey by property website FindaProperty found that Finsbury Park is one of the most common places in London for break-ins and thefts from vehicles. The research found that wealthy Chelsea was top of the list for vehicle theft (that is, criminals actually driving off with a car) and that Belgravia headed the league for vehicle break-ins, but Finsbury Park was runner up in the list of thefts from cars. As the owner of a car that...

After a wobbly first day online, the new street-by-street crime data mapping system at www.police.uk seems to have settled down. The number of information requests being made by worried - or curious - UK residents logging in to find out how many crimes and anti-social activities are taking place locally brought the site down for much of Tuesday; but the system now seems to be working, and anyone with an online connection can simply...

Tollington and Finsbury Park Safer Neighbourhoods Teams are working with Islington Council on an operation to tackle drug-related crime and antisocial behaviour by groups of young people around Finsbury Park in response to concerns raised by local people. A five-month dispersal zone has been introduced around the Wray Crescent Park, Six Acres and Andover estates, giving police the power to move on groups of two or more youths likely...