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; – this is a major problem in the town centre and is one of the biggest sources of funding for drug habits. All shops along the town centre are regularly hit with shoplifting almost on a daily occurrence. Shoplifters often use violence against staff in order to commit the offence.
Action taken:
officers to conduct hi visibility patrols to deter shoplifters and also plain clothed ops in town centre to target known shoplifters. Regular contact is in place with the stores to allow them to report all offences and provide officers with CCTV.
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Priority:
ASB, street drinking and rough sleeping. This is often accompanied with violence, drugs and shoplifting. This is the main focus of concern on the ward and is a ward wide issue.
Action taken:
Officers regularly conduct hi-vis patrols and plain clothed patrols in the town centre and are working with Merton council CCTV to identify repeats offenders and deal with them accordingly.
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Priority:
Drugs; Complaints regarding Drugs in Figges Marsh ward has increased mainly within the town centre and surrounding car park and estates
Action taken:
to combat this Figges Marsh SNT will increase uniformed and plain clothed patrols in and around Mitcham Town Centre, Saddlers Close and surrounding area.