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Here’s the latest on mobile phone theft in your area. 🚔 Dear Residents,
I hope you are well. Apologies for not updating you all for a few of weeks.
📊 Please find below a brief update on reported incidents within the area between 22nd June 2026 and 18th July 2026.
🔹 Affray 📍 Oakwood Crescent – Disturbance in the street.
🔹 ABH (Actual Bodily Harm) 📍 Marwood Square – Fight at location.
🔹 Common Assault & Battery x2 📍 Muswell Hill & Church Crescent – Under investigation.
🔹 Common Assault & Battery 📍 Muswell Hill – Object thrown in victim's direction.
🔹 Common Assault & Battery 📍 Muswell Hill Broadway – Suspect grabbed victim's shoulder.
🔹 Attempted Theft from Person 🚲 📍 Muswell Hill Broadway – Suspect on a bicycle attempted to grab a mobile phone from the victim's hand.
🔹 Attempted Theft from Person 🚲 📍 Muswell Hill Road – Four suspects on E-bikes.
🔹 Burglary – Business & Community 🏪 📍 Muswell Hill Broadway – Store was closed when a suspect forced entry and stole two bottles of alcohol.
🔹 Residential Burglary 🏠 📍 Muswell Hill Road – HMO property; suspect entered an insecure room and stole cash.
🔹 Criminal Damage 🚪 📍 Princes Avenue – Damage caused to a door.
🔹 Criminal Damage 🪟 📍 Muswell Hill (exact location unknown) – Rear window smashed; nothing stolen.
🔹 Domestic Allegations x3 🏠 Under investigation.
🔹 Possession of Class B Drugs 💊 📍 Muswell Hill – Under investigation.
🔹 Racially/Religiously Aggravated Criminal Damage 📍 St James Lane – Under investigation.
🔹 Racially/Religiously Aggravated Intentional Harassment x2 📍 Fortis Green Road, Muswell Hill – Under investigation.
🔹 Residential Burglary of Unconnected Building 📦 Parcels stolen from a communal area by a female suspect.
🔹 Robbery (Personal) 📍 Muswell Hill Broadway – Under investigation.
🔹 Robbery (Business) x2 🏪 📍 Muswell Hill Broadway – Under investigation.
🔹 Section 4A Public Order x2 📍 Muswell Hill Broadway – Under investigation.
🔹 Section 4A Public Order 🚌 📍 Muswell Hill Broadway – Male reported staring at victim on a bus.
🔹 Sending Indecent or Grossly Offensive Communications 📱 📍 Muswell Hill – Under investigation.
🔹 Theft from Motor Vehicle x5 🚗 📍 St James' Lane, Wood Vale, Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill Road & Wellfield Avenue. Unknown suspects entered vehicles and stole: • Mobile phone • Front number plate • Parcel shelves (x2) • Catalytic converter
🔹 Theft from Shop x4 🛍️ 📍 Muswell Hill Broadway & Fortis Green Road. Unknown suspects stole: • Clothing (£1,000) • Perfumes (£270) • Cookware (£275) • Sports drinks (£130) • Health products (£190) • Alcohol (£400)
🔹 Theft from Person x4 📍 Muswell Hill Broadway & Alexandra Park (near Grove Café). Property stolen: • Bank card • Phone snatch by suspect on a bicycle (x2) • Purse stolen from bag
🔹 Theft of Pedal Cycle 🚲 📍 Cranmore Way – Unknown suspect stole a bicycle from outside a property.
🔹 Theft Other 📍 Woodland Rise – Under investigation.
⚠️ Please remain vigilant, ensure homes and vehicles are secured, and report any suspicious activity via 101, online, or 999 in an emergency.
👮♂️ Thank you for your continued support. Together, we can help keep Muswell Hill a safe place to live, work and visit.
All the best,
PC Robbie Bures & PCSO BADRELDIN
 We’ve put hundreds more officers on the frontlines of community crime-fighting teams, upping visible patrols in the right ‘hot spots’ so we can deter and catch criminals. These officers are working hard to bear down on mobile phone crime in London, arresting phone thieves on the street, shutting down vendors trading stolen devices and dismantling international criminal gangs. We have now almost halved phone theft in Westminster, where it was most concentrated, following an intensive crackdown which has seen hundreds of arrests and thousands of phones recovered. After campaigning by the Met, Apple has also made a global change to its security system that better ensures stolen phones cannot be reused or resold – disrupting a highly organised international business model worth millions. But we know there is more to do. That’s why we’re stepping up our use of technology, increasing our operations and working with phone companies to make it less appealing for criminals to commit these crimes in the first place. You can report an incident of theft online at https://www.met.police.uk. | 
