Your Role

Personal Safety

Councillors' Surgeries

Face to face surgeries are still suspended whiles the COVID-19 pandemic continues.  Councillors should use alternative methods of contacting residents such as Microsoft Teams meetings, email and telephone calls.

 Our security is your security

Please wear your ID badge at all times when in Council buildings. To ensure high standards of security for all, staff or councillors who don't have ID on display may be challenged.

Please be aware of people following closely behind you as they pass through restricted access doors – also known as 'tailgating'. Please report any suspicious incidents to Security (0208 227 3178)

If you lose your ID card, please contact – 0208 227 3178 or email: securityaccessandid@lbbd.gov.uk 

The Council’s Physical Infrastructure Security Policy can be viewed here. 

Staying safe in an attack

While there is no specific threat identified to council buildings or the borough of Barking and Dagenham, you should always remain on alert. Official advice from the police if you are caught up in a firearm or weapon attack is:

• Run to a place of safety;
• Hide rather than confront; and
• Tell the police by calling 999.

Further information, including a video, can be seen at www.npcc.police.uk/staysafe