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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:
ASB - this is more specifically in relation to youth and the school children, focusing on activity around Foots Cray Meadows and wild life offences.
Action taken:
High visibility vehicle patrols will occur through out the shifts to prevent and deter any Anti social behaviour and foot patrols around foots cray meadows to tackle ASB and wildlife offences.
Cycle patrols will also be conducted through the meadows to tackle ongoing issues.
Any persons caught or identified as causing ASB will be given warnings. If continued ASB occurs then further measures will be implemented, which may include Acceptable Behaviour Contracts (ABC), Community Protection Notice Warning (CPNW), Community Protection Warning (CPN), arrest and possible charges for any offences.
Any wildlife offences will be reported and investigated -
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:
Crime prevention events to prevent offences.
Cocooning around offences, street briefings and Operations
Road safety speeding operations on various points of the ward.
Joint MV crime proactive operations with Kent Police.
Crime Prevention messaging through Met Engage.
High visibility and plain clothes Patrols will be conducted throughout shifts to combat these problems. -
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 at establishments and engagement with licensee's to identify and deter offenders.
Arresting outstanding high harm offenders to reduce offending.