St Katharine's & Wapping

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St Katharine's & Wapping 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.

To contact to your team about local policing issues, email us at StKatharine's&Wapping@contact.metengage.co.uk or pick an officer to email below. (Please do not use this contact method to report crime, in an emergency always call 999 or you can report crime online at www.met.police.uk or dial 101).

Darren Bond

Sergeant

James Dove

Police Constable

Aaron Hamilton

PCSO

Frank Hartley

Inspector

Sandra Monteiro De Sousa

PCSO

Megan Wells

Police Constable

Local Priority Issues

We are committed to tackling the issues that matter most to local communities. Based on our conversations with residents, and the issues they have raised with us, our main priorities are:

Priority	Action taken
Drug & substance mis-use, Dealing and associated violence / anti-social behaviour Issued 01 November 2025	These offences are key drivers of anti-social behaviour a major concern to our community and as such are a key priority for the teams’ daily policing activities. Using intelligence led policing to target regular uniform reassurance patrols, and plain clothes operations, to focus on hotspots and key offenders. These patrols include weapons sweeps to disrupt gang violence and maintain the safety of our community as well as partnership work with local council and housing association which continues to improve safety and deter offending. To support these front-line policing activities our PCSO’s are focused on encouraging the uptake of Met-Engage the information from which assists us in focusing our efforts. Actioned 01 February 2026
Business Crime Issued 01 November 2025	The team remains focused on reducing theft offences affecting local businesses. Using intelligence led policing to target regular uniform reassurance patrols, and plain clothes operations, to focus on hotspots and key offenders. Additionally, the team is deployed on ‘action weeks’ where these offences are the teams primary focus. In support of these actions the team continues to develop and maintaining links with our local businesses and business groups, such as the safer Business Network, to improve crime reporting and security arrangements. To support these front-line policing activities our PCSO’s are focused on encouraging the uptake of Met-Engage Actioned 01 February 2026
Residential Burglary & theft Issued 01 November 2025	The team remains focused on reducing all theft offences with particular focus on burglary and residential theft (parcel theft, theft from outbuilding and garages) that are naturally particularly concerning our residents. Using intelligence led policing to target regular uniform reassurance patrols, and plain clothes operations, to focus on hotspots and key offenders. The team has and will continue to flex shift patterns to target times that’s these offences are committed to give an agile response to this challenge. To support these front-line policing activities our PCSO’s are focused on encouraging the uptake of Met-Engage. Actioned 01 February 2026

Priority

Action taken

Drug & substance mis-use, Dealing and associated violence / anti-social behaviour

Issued 01 November 2025

These offences are key drivers of anti-social behaviour a major concern to our community and as such are a key priority for the teams’ daily policing activities.
Using intelligence led policing to target regular uniform reassurance patrols, and plain clothes operations, to focus on hotspots and key offenders.
These patrols include weapons sweeps to disrupt gang violence and maintain the safety of our community as well as partnership work with local council and housing association which continues to improve safety and deter offending.
To support these front-line policing activities our PCSO’s are focused on encouraging the uptake of Met-Engage the information from which assists us in focusing our efforts.

Actioned 01 February 2026

Business Crime

Issued 01 November 2025

The team remains focused on reducing theft offences affecting local businesses.
Using intelligence led policing to target regular uniform reassurance patrols, and plain clothes operations, to focus on hotspots and key offenders.
Additionally, the team is deployed on ‘action weeks’ where these offences are the teams primary focus.
In support of these actions the team continues to develop and maintaining links with our local businesses and business groups, such as the safer Business Network, to improve crime reporting and security arrangements.
To support these front-line policing activities our PCSO’s are focused on encouraging the uptake of Met-Engage

Actioned 01 February 2026

Residential Burglary & theft

Issued 01 November 2025

The team remains focused on reducing all theft offences with particular focus on burglary and residential theft (parcel theft, theft from outbuilding and garages) that are naturally particularly concerning our residents.
Using intelligence led policing to target regular uniform reassurance patrols, and plain clothes operations, to focus on hotspots and key offenders.
The team has and will continue to flex shift patterns to target times that’s these offences are committed to give an agile response to this challenge.
To support these front-line policing activities our PCSO’s are focused on encouraging the uptake of Met-Engage.

Actioned 01 February 2026

The word cloud below represents the issues raised by residents through their Local Matters survey. We take this into consideration along with discussions with stakeholders, ward panel meetings and conversations with the public when setting our key priorities

What members in St Katharine's & Wapping are saying are the issues in the area:

Agree or not? Have your say now, click here to do the survey

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