The Tottenham Mandem Crew are a gang

Gang

A gang is a group of people who, through the organization, formation, and establishment of an assemblage, share a common identity. In current usage it typically denotes a criminal organization or else a criminal affiliation. In early usage, the word gang referred to a group of workmen...

 based in Tottenham

Tottenham

Tottenham is an area of the London Borough of Haringey, England, situated north north east of Charing Cross.-Toponymy:Tottenham is believed to have been named after Tota, a farmer, whose hamlet was mentioned in the Domesday Book; hence Tota's hamlet became Tottenham...

, North London that began on the Broadwater Farm

Broadwater Farm

Broadwater Farm, often referred to simply as "The Farm", is an area in Tottenham, North London, straddling the River Moselle. The eastern half of the area is dominated by the Broadwater Farm Estate , an experiment in high-density social housing built in the late 1960s...

 estate prior to the Broadwater Farm riot

Broadwater Farm riot

The Broadwater Farm riot occurred around the Broadwater Farm area of Tottenham, North London, on 6 October 1985.The events of the day were dominated by two deaths. The first was that of Cynthia Jarrett, an African-Caribbean woman who died the previous day from a stroke during a police search of her...

 in 1985. One of the early members and later leader Mark Lambie, jailed in 2002, was a suspect in the murder of PC Keith Blakelock

Keith Blakelock

The death of PC Keith Blakelock, an officer with the London Metropolitan Police, occurred on 6 October 1985 during rioting on the Broadwater Farm housing estate in Tottenham, north London...

 during the riots.

The gang is composed of over a dozen affiliated sets, according to geographical location. These include Star Gang/Stargang, Bloodline, Broadwater Farm, Reed Road Crips, Bruce Castle Kings, West Green, Chestnut Black Gang, Ida Bloodstarz, NPK, Philip Lane Boys, Scotland Green, Tower Gardens Black Bandana Gang (New Youngers Set), Stonebridge Mandem (Ermine/Plevna/Stonebridge), Broad Lane, Suffolk & Twyford Goons, Tiverton Piru & Ida Piru.

History

The gang began as a drug dealing collective on the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham. Police crack-downs have targeted certain gang members for serious crimes and drug enforcement in the specific geographical locations of Tottenham Mandem (NPK) sets has been practiced however the gang remained despite turnover of original members due to cyclical recruitment of younger members.They have another gang in EN3 called NR Riderz which went and was in the riots in wood green.

Rivalries

Between 1996 and 2004 over a dozen murders were attributed to the gang rivalry between the NPK and Hackney Boys. More recently NPK gang members have been imprisoned for the murder of Gary Guthrie and ongoing violence between the NPK set and rivals Shankstarz from neighbouring Edmonton

Edmonton, London

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 in 2009. Somerford Grove became an ally of the Tottenham boys when a gang member from Somerford Grove stabbed a member of Wood Green. The gang member was later identified by police

Police

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and jailed but jumped bail. A female who was later identified by the Metropolitan Police was part of the violence.