Violent crime makes up 25.8% of all crimes reported in Harrow, and increased when compared year-over-year in the period of May 2022 – April 2023 (Plumplot).
The most common crimes in Harrow are violence and sexual offences, with 5,149 offences during 2022, 5% higher than 2021’s figure of 4,886 offences and a difference of 1.05 from 2021’s crime rate of 19 (CrimeRate).
Greenhill South is the most dangerous neighbourhood in Harrow, followed by Greenhill North in second place (CrimeRate).
What the Harrow Times has reported in the past six months also suggests that the hotspot for the violence and sexual offences like Wealdstone has moved on to the areas surrounding the Harrow Town Centre.
This June, an aggravated burglary on Kenton Road left a 46-year-old man with stab injuries.
A few days back, the police were called to St Anns Road when a fight involving a group of males was reported – two males were arrested after the town centre brawl left one person with facial and head injuries.
A few months earlier, a man was rushed to hospital after a stabbing at the back of St George’s shopping centre in Greenhill Way.
In another incident that month, in nearby North Harrow, a man, aged in his late 50s, was murdered in a fight outside a residential address.
Last November, two teenagers were arrested following a triple stabbing close to Harrow-on-the-Hill station and bus station.
The Harrow Town Centre is in the Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) zone that is thinly implemented.
Odd that all this is happening in the council that is supposed to focus on ‘putting residents first; a clean and safe borough’!
Also, the council administration when in opposition was quite concerned about the crime rate in Harrow and criticised the then administration for being “dismissive” and not doing enough to tackle the crime.
The most common crimes in Harrow are violence and sexual offences, with 5,149 offences during 2022, 5% higher than 2021’s figure of 4,886 offences and a difference of 1.05 from 2021’s crime rate of 19 (CrimeRate).
Greenhill South is the most dangerous neighbourhood in Harrow, followed by Greenhill North in second place (CrimeRate).
What the Harrow Times has reported in the past six months also suggests that the hotspot for the violence and sexual offences like Wealdstone has moved on to the areas surrounding the Harrow Town Centre.
This June, an aggravated burglary on Kenton Road left a 46-year-old man with stab injuries.
A few days back, the police were called to St Anns Road when a fight involving a group of males was reported – two males were arrested after the town centre brawl left one person with facial and head injuries.
A few months earlier, a man was rushed to hospital after a stabbing at the back of St George’s shopping centre in Greenhill Way.
In another incident that month, in nearby North Harrow, a man, aged in his late 50s, was murdered in a fight outside a residential address.
Last November, two teenagers were arrested following a triple stabbing close to Harrow-on-the-Hill station and bus station.
The Harrow Town Centre is in the Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) zone that is thinly implemented.
Odd that all this is happening in the council that is supposed to focus on ‘putting residents first; a clean and safe borough’!
Also, the council administration when in opposition was quite concerned about the crime rate in Harrow and criticised the then administration for being “dismissive” and not doing enough to tackle the crime.
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