Lynne Featherstone has welcomed the news from the Metropolitan Police Authority that Highgate is to receive its own Safer Neighbourhood Team.

Highgate sits on the corner of three London Boroughs – Islington, Camden and Haringey – and has been the victim of neglect on occasions, with no individual borough taking overall control.

Lynne Featherstone MP has been campaigning for joined up policing in Highgate for a long time, including when she sat on the Metropolitan Police Authority herself as a member of the GLA before becoming MP for Hornsey & Wood Green in 2005.

Last month Lynne Featherstone wrote to Len Duvall, Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority to ascertain when the Highgate team will be introduced.

Lynne Featherstone MP said:

“I welcome the reply I have received from the Chair of the MPA, informing me that the introduction of the first part of the Highgate Safer Neighbourhood Team will be in April this year.

“For too long Highgate has been at the bottom of the police agenda. At last a historic and geographic wrong will be righted.”