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:
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Priority:
Burglaries within Cator Estate.
Action taken:
- Conduct intelligence-led patrols in hotspot locations.
- Proactively stop and search suspects where grounds exist.
- Execute warrants where intelligence supports enforcement activity.
- Work with burglary investigation teams to identify series-linked offenders.
- High-visibility patrols during peak offending times.
- Increased reassurance patrols following offences.
- Increased use of Met Engage for crime prevention messaging -
Priority:
Parcel Theft around Kidbrooke Park Road. Reduce parcel theft from residential addresses, communal entrances and collection points through enforcement, prevention and engagement.
Action taken:
- Conduct targeted plain-clothes and high-visibility patrols during peak delivery periods.
- Utilise CCTV opportunities from local authorities, housing associations and private premises.
- Conduct crime prevention visits to repeat victim households.
- Use Met Engage and social media messaging around seasonal peaks (Black Friday, Christmas and Prime Day).
- Encourage registration and use of property marking schemes where appropriate. -
Priority:
Theft of motor vehicles and motor vehicle interference in Westcombe Park.
Action taken:
- Visit repeat victims and provide crime prevention.
- Work with vehicle owners in hotspots to encourage improved security measures
- Patrol during peak offending times identified through crime analysis.
- Obtain community intelligence regarding suspicious vehicles and offenders
- Monitor known offenders linked to vehicle crime.