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:
Road Safety including Mopeds and E-Bikes on Sidcup High Street
Action taken:
High visibility and plain clothes patrols, focusing on driving offences involving motorbikes, mopeds and E-bikes.
Speeding operations on main roads focusing on speeding offences, driving not in accordance with a driving license and driving without insurance.
Drivers found to be committing road traffic offences will be reported for court consideration or points and fines on driving licenses. -
Priority:
Sidcup High Street crime focus on ASB
Action taken:
High visibility patrols on Sidcup High Street with businesses engaged with regarding ongoing trends, including providing crime prevention advice and support reports made to police.
Any persons caught or identified as causing ASB will be given warnings initially if the first time. If continued ASB occurs then further measures will be implemented, which include Acceptable Behaviour Contracts (ABC), Community Protection Notice Warning (CPNW), Community Protection Warning (CPN), arrest and charges for any offences. -
Priority:
Burglary
Action taken:
High visibility patrols in high impacted areas in Sidcup
Plain clothes patrols in impacted areas to reduce offending
Crime prevention stalls to give residents advice and reassurance
street briefings
reassurance visits