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Phone and bag snatch watch Street theft reported by residents

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Reports feed the hotspot map within a minute and the monthly summary shared with the Safer Neighbourhoods team.

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—snatches reported this month

Last 12 months

Reports submitted from this page appear here. None yet for the last 12 months.

If it just happened

Hotspots

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Heat density across submitted reports. We don't show individual incidents - points are rounded to ~110m (a city block) so victims can't be identified.

Recorded crime · Home Office One to two months behind

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recorded by police in and around E20

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reported by residents here

These two counts measure different things and should not be added together. Most street thefts are never reported to the police, and police records include incidents nobody mentioned on EVH.

Locations are snapped to anonymised map points, so a crime shown on a street did not necessarily happen on it. Counts also only include what was reported to the police.

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Alerts for nearby snatches
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Stay safe

Keep your phone away at the kerb - most snatches are from the road.
Set a short auto-lock so a stolen phone locks fast.
Turn on Stolen Device Protection in your settings.
Related tracker Parcel theft tracker Also theft, but a different problem — what gets taken from lobbies rather than from people.
Location privacy
Every pin is rounded to about 110m before storage, so the map shows a stretch of street rather than an address.
What "raised" means
A rolling 30-day count compared with the previous 30 days. There is no fixed threshold — street theft is too sporadic for one to be meaningful.
This is not a police report
Reporting here helps neighbours and gives us numbers to take to the ward panel. It does not notify the Met — call 101 or report online for that.
Why the two counts differ
Resident reports and Home Office records measure different things and are never combined. Most street thefts are never reported to the police, and police records include incidents nobody mentioned here. Police locations are also snapped to anonymised points, which is why they are a separate strip and never appear on the map above.