We are fortunate in St Stephens to have experienced a low incidence of crime and “un-neighbourly” behaviour – long may this continue. Nonetheless, we should maintain a reasonable degree of vigilance to protect ourselves and our community from criminal or disreputable elements and, indeed, traders and others whose activities, merchandise or services are most certainly not in residents’ best interests.

We would now like to develop a better means of communication with you rather than relying on periodic newsletters and we should like as many residents as possible to subscribe to our email address list. If we do not presently have your email address, please let us have it so that we can “keep you in the loop”.

Finally, we should like to bring Crime Stoppers to your attention. Whereas your identity is revealed if you make a 999 call to the police, should you wish to remain anonymous for justifiable reasons, you may call Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111 to pass information on actual or potential crime which will then be passed to the police for action. Crime Stoppers is an independent charity set up nationwide by Lord Ashcroft 25 years ago, just after the murder of PC Keith Blakelock during the Broadwater Farm riots. The phone number is manned 24/7 and charitable status guarantees anonymity for all callers. More information is available at the Crimestoppers website.