St Helier

Shoplifting offences

St Helier Ward and other teams will aim to tackle and reduce shoplifting offences and bring offenders to justice by;
- Completing operations on Morden High Street targeting those committing theft offences
- Working with business premises to ID offenders through the use of CCTV or other enquiries
- Work with other teams within the Metropolitan police to secure convictions where there is appropriate evidence of an offence
- Patrol areas where there are a higher number of shoplifting offences as part of a typical daily deployment

Shoplifting offences do continue to occur, as a team we will continue to run operations in the town centre, both ourselves and working with council teams and store detectives on days of action to target theft offences
So far we have run three operations in the Morden area, leading to the arrests and charges of numerous offenders as well as other disposals such as on the spot fines or banning notices for other offenders not suitable for arrest.

1 male was sentenced to 20 months in prison for associated theft offences

Burglary

Officers and PCSO's will visit all victims of burglary, offering re-assurance and crime prevention advice to the community.
Working in partnership with our investigation teams we will look to identify any evidential leads, such as CCTV to pursue offenders and bring justice to victims.

We have run two pro-active operations in the area in 2026, both resulting in reduced reports of burglary and motor vehicle crime in the associated time frame, as well as a number of arrests completed for a variety of offences.

Motor-vehicle crime - both theft of and theft from motor vehicle

Pro-active operations have taken place in an attempt to tackle this issue, officers working extended or additional shifts has taken place targeting areas of high motor-vehicle crime which has lead to arrests of offenders during the deployments.

We have run two pro-active operations in the area in 2026, both resulting in reduced reports of burglary and motor vehicle crime in the associated time frame, as well as a number of arrests completed for a variety of offences.

Preventing thefts from can be achieved from not leaving any money or valuables in unattended vehicles