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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There has been a notable rise in the reporting of dog related offences across the ward. Offences include dogs being dangerously out of control in both public and private settings, as well as possessing prohibited breeds without an exception certificate.
Action taken:
The local policing team will be intelligence led, identifying hotspot locations and look to problem solve through targeted interventions, timely investigations and partnership working. We will also be proactive in encouraging responsible dog ownership at various community events and through Social Media messaging.
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Residents report excessive speed by motorists at various locations throughout the ward. Officers are committed to holding two speed awareness/enforcement operations across the ward cluster and where possible, will include input from Roads Transport Policing Command (RTPC) and utilize ANPR technology to identify offenders and contribute to road safety as part of our commitment to vision zero.
Action taken:
Officers are tasked to carry out speeding operations at hotspot locations, identified through intelligence and local community feedback. These operations often involve working in partnership with Safer Transport and the Roads Policing Unit, who have access to specialist equipment/vehicles specific to the task. Officers are tasked with meeting roads policing objectives as part of Bromley Council's Community Impact Days.
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"Cuckooing" is defined as the criminal exploitation of vulnerable people, involving the use of their homes as a base for criminal activities, through intimidation, or in exchange for drugs. The impact of persons being cuckooed can be extremely harmful, not just to those directly involved, but to the wider community, through increased drug use/supply and ASB.
Action taken:
The safer neighbourhoods team will tackle this by safeguarding vulnerable people, through target hardening of victims and locations. We will take a collaborative approach, working closely with partners such a Bromley Council, BDAS, ADDER and mental health services. We will utilise powers provided through the Anti-Social, Crime and Policing Act 2014 to seek closure of affected premises and target those involved in the exploitation of vulnerable residents.