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:
Shoplifting on the High Street
Action taken:
To target the persistent offenders committing a large volume of crime on a small number of venues. SNT officers will work with the targeted venues to quickly share information and evidence to secure convictions.
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Priority:
Speeding on the Cator side of the ward.
Action taken:
Officers from Penge SNT will look to conduct sporadic speed enforcement operations in the area. These operations will be conducted at times around school opening and closing when the majority of the speeding is reported. Penge SNT have a good relationship with the Met Police traffic department who have targeted the area on multiple occasions recently and will look to continue this going forward.
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Priority:
Drug dealing in Penge
Action taken:
There has been a marked increase in addresses being cuckooed as well as the associated drug dealing. After several notable successes the priority is to continue to take action against problem addresses.