Join Our Ward Panel

Dear resident 

Would you like to Join our Ward Panel 

A ward panel is a group of community members and partner agencies that meets with a representative of the SNT at least every 3 months to set local SNT ward priorities and hold the SNT to account for issues affecting the community. 

A ward panel will feed information and emerging issues directly to local officers, helping to shape and deliver local priorities and inform supervisors. Ward panel decisions must be evidence-based and inform, influence and involve both the community and police officers as part of a continuous cycle of feedback, review and action.

Ward panels provide opportunities for the community to engage with the police and other partners about the things that matter most in the area where they live. By feeding in information from the wider community and reporting back to the community, ward panel members increase community engagement with policing.

 Ward panel members should involve as many community members as possible in this two-way communication. Ward panel members, through their contacts and influence, should also cascade crime prevention and wider police engagement messaging through the means they decide most appropriate to achieve as wide a reach as possible. 

They should then inform the SNT of any relevant feedback. Ward panels should support the effectiveness of community contact sessions by considering information on their takeup and impact, then contributing community suggestions for different locations and times/events of high footfall that together reach the wide range of community members. Information collected at these sessions should be fed back to the ward panel.

The next Ward Panel will be held on the 23rd of October 2025. If you would like to be part of the ward Panel, please email the Team at; EastGreenwich.SNT@met.police.uk