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:
Motor Vehicle Crime and Road Safety - This is in relation to all motor vehicle offences, including speeding, driving with no insurance, driving not in accordance with a driving licence and theft of and theft from a motor vehicle.
Action taken:
High visibility and plain clothes Patrols to reduce motor vehicle offences.
Crime prevention events to provide crime prevention advice to residents and victims of crime.
Cocooning around offences
Street briefings.
Road safety speeding operations on various points of the ward.
Joint MV crime proactive operations with Kent Police.
Crime Prevention messaging through Met Engage. -
Priority:
VAWG and violence reduction in and around Bexley Village
Action taken:
High visibility and plain clothes patrols in and around Bexley Village to tackle and reduce violence offences, including violence against women and girls (VAWG).
High visibility operations at Bexley Train Station and businesses in Bexley Village to reduce offending and identify offenders.
Licensing visits and checks at establishments
Engagement with licensee's to identify and deter offenders.
Arresting outstanding high harm offenders to reduce offending. -
Priority:
Reduce Burglary offences
Action taken:
Through conducting intelligence led high visibility patrols in impacted areas.
Plain clothes patrols with use of stop and search where appropriate.
Arresting outstanding high harm offenders impacting the ward.
Resident engagement through street briefings and crime prevention stalls.
Crime prevention messaging through Met Engage