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Here’s the latest on mobile phone theft in your area. 🔵 Muswell Hill SNT Crime Update 🔵
📅 Reporting Period: 14 August 2026 to 24 August 2026
Dear Residents,
I hope you are well.
Please find below a summary of incidents reported within the Muswell Hill area during the above period.
🚨 Violence Against the Person
🔹 ASB Reports x3
• Under investigation.
🔹 ABH - Queens Avenue
• Under investigation.
🔹 Common Assault & Battery - Muswell Hill Broadway
• Under investigation.
🔹 Common Assault & Battery - Muswell Hill Road
• Victim was grabbed around the neck by a suspect known to them.
🔹 Attempted Robbery (Business) - Muswell Hill Road
• Under investigation.
🔹 Attempted Robbery (Personal) - Grand Avenue
• Under investigation.
🏪 Business Crime
🔹 Burglary (Business & Community) - Muswell Hill Broadway
• Victim had their phone stolen from behind a shop counter.
🔹 Malicious Communications - Muswell Hill Broadway
• Unknown suspect made a number of threatening phone calls to the victim.
🔹 Racially & Religiously Aggravated Intentional Harassment - Muswell Hill Broadway
• Under investigation.
⚠️ Public Order
🔹 Section 4 Public Order Act Offence - Fortis Green Road
• Suspect made threats towards the victim, causing fear of violence.
🚗 Vehicle Crime
🔹 Theft from Motor Vehicle - Cranley Gardens
• Under investigation.
🔹 Theft from Motor Vehicle - Summerland Gardens
• Two male suspects wearing high-visibility jackets stole tools worth approximately £2,000 from a victim's vehicle.
🛍️ Theft Offences
🔹 Shop Theft - Muswell Hill Road
• Under investigation.
🔹 Shop Theft - Muswell Hill Road
• Unknown suspect stole health products valued at £310.
🔹 Shop Theft - Muswell Hill Road
• Unknown suspect stole health products valued at £93.
🔹 Domestic-Related Theft Person - Muswell Hill Area
• Under investigation.
🔹 Theft from Person - Fortis Green Road
• Mobile phone stolen from the victim's bag whilst inside a store.
🔹 Theft in a Dwelling - Fortis Green Road
• Theft of a bag by a suspect known to the victim.
💊 Drugs
🔹 Unlawful Importation of a Controlled Drug - Muswell Hill Area
• Under investigation.
🛡️ Crime Prevention Advice
✅ Protect Your Phone & Personal Property
Keep phones, wallets and bags secure and out of sight when shopping.
Avoid placing valuables on counters, tables or unattended in public places.
Enable location tracking and security features on mobile devices.
✅ Vehicle Security
Remove all valuables and tools from vehicles whenever possible.
If tools must be left in a vehicle, store them out of sight and consider additional security measures such as tool marking, alarms or lockable storage boxes.
Be vigilant of suspicious activity around parked vehicles and report concerns promptly.
✅ Business Security
Keep staff belongings and mobile phones secured and away from public access areas.
Ensure CCTV systems are operational and provide good coverage of tills, counters and entrances.
✅ Report Suspicious Activity
If you witness suspicious behaviour, please report it.
In an emergency or if a crime is in progress, call 999.
For non-emergency matters, contact police via 101 or report online.
Thank you for your continued support and vigilance in helping to keep Muswell Hill safe.
Kind regards,
PC Robbie Bures
Muswell Hill Safer Neighbourhood Team 👮♂️🚓
 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. | 
