Your Safer Neighbourhoods Team
Your Safer Neighbourhoods Team is a group of Met police officers dedicated to serving your community. The team is made up of officers based in your area (or 'ward'), supported by additional officers from the wider area.
We work closely with local authorities, community leaders and residents to decide our policing priorities for the area. This helps us to find useful, long-term solutions to local problems, while maintaining our wider focus on reducing crime across London.
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Crimes and priorities
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Priority:
Action taken:
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Priority:
Reduce ASB in Sidcup High Street
Action taken:
High visibility patrols on Sidcup High Street to reduce ASB
Plain clothes patrols on Sidcup High Street to target ASB.
Engagement with businesses to identify ongoing trends, including providing crime prevention advice and support reporting to police.
Met Engage posts to provide crime prevention advice.
Appropriate use of ASB powers including the use of Acceptable Behaviour Contracts (ABC), Community Protection Notice Warning (CPNW) and Community Protection notices (CPN).
Engagement with educational premises to reduce ASB. -
Priority:
Reduce Shoplifting in Sidcup High Street
Action taken:
High visibility patrols in Sidcup High Street, utilising stop and search powers where appropriate
Plain clothes patrols in Sidcup High Street
Proactive operations to target and deter shoplifting offences.
Crime prevention stalls
Reassurance visits to impacted businesses
Met Engage posts providing crime prevention advice.
Business engagement to ensure reporting of offences. -
Priority:
Reduce Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) offences
Action taken:
High visibility intelligence led patrols in areas impacted area's
Plain clothes patrols to reduce offending
Reassurance visits to victims of crime
Crime Prevention stalls offering crime prevention advice.
Met Engage posts to provide crime prevention advice.
Arrest enquiries for High Harm Offenders to reduce offending.
Business engagement to provide crime prevention tactics.