Redbridge Safer Neighbourhood Board (RSNB)

RedbridgeCVS is funded by the Mayor’s Office for Policing & Crime (MOPAC) to administer the Redbridge Safer Neighbourhood Board (RSNB).

Priorities and Core Functions

The priorities and core functions of the Board are to:

enable local engagement with the Police;
enable local accountability of the police;
focus on the Police and Crime Plan key principles and priorities - putting victims first and reducing inequalities; keeping children and young people safe; tackling violence against women and girls and tackling hate crime and intolerance.
monitor crime performance and public perceptions (community confidence);
inform the development of policing priorities in the borough;
monitor MPS support for the delivery of ward panels and community contact sessions; and
engage with Borough Independent Advisory Groups and other local mechanisms e.g. Neighbourhood Watch and Stop and Search Community Monitoring Groups to support and inform their work across the borough.

Membership

The current membership of the Board is:

Cllr Khayer Chowdhury - Cabinet Member for Crime, Safety & Community Cohesion
Chief Inspector Lisa Butterfield - Chief Inspector for Neighbourhood Policing
Chief Inspector Chris Nixon - Neighbourhood Policing
Inspector Yasar Noori - Safer Neighbourhood Team, Metropolitan Police Service
John Richards - Head of Community Safety, London Borough of Redbridge
Valerie Scanlon - Community Safety Officer
Head of Civic Pride & Enforcement, London Borough of Redbridge
Habib Rehman - Chair of the Police Independent Advisory Group
Stephen Phillips - Representative of Independent Custody Visitor Panel
Julie Bradley - Stop & Search Community Monitoring Group
Will McIntosh - Redbridge Secondary Headteacher
Two Representatives of Redbridge Youth Council
Two Redbridge Neighbourhood Watch Ward Coordinators.

Ward Panel Representatives

Lucky Azfal
Noel Judge - Chair of Redbridge Safer Neighbourhood board
Varsha Joshi
Dennis Weeks

Voluntary and Community Groups

Voluntary and Community Sector organisations are represented as follows:

AgeUK Redbridge
Anti-Tribalism Movement
Frenford Clubs
Jewish Care, social and community support.
One Place East
Redbridge Equalities & Community Council
Redbridge Faith Forum
Refugee & Migrant Forum of Essex and London.

Meetings

The RSNB meets four times a year and all meetings are held in public. Non-members of the Board may raise questions for a limited time at the end of each agenda.

Please note that meetings are held in person. Members of the public are asked to register to attend here.

Officers and Administrator

The Chair of the Board is Noel Judge, representing Chadwell Ward Panel.

The Vice-chair of the Board is Julie Bradley, representing Stop and Search Monitoring Group.