London Bridge & West Bermondsey
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London Bridge & West Bermondsey 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 LondonBridge&WestBermondsey@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).
Iain Bartley
Police Sergeant
Paul Durrant
PCSO
Joshua Head
Police Constable
Ali Hizyolu
PCSO
Phil Howes
Dedicated Ward Officer
Kaelon Parkes
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 |
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Robbery / Weapons: This includes all hotspot areas where members of the public are getting robbed of mobile phones, watches and other items mainly around Tooley Street, Borough High Street, St Thomas Street and Tower Bridge Road. This can be from knife point robberies to cycle enabled phone snatches Issued 15 January 2026 |
Ward officers provide a regular police presence in the area to detect and deter criminal activity. These patrols patrols and activities are intel led and focus on times and locations where robbery offences occur. The Safer Neighbourhood Team offer crime prevention advice to members of the public as well as securing additional funding for patrols and signage across the ward area. The team conduct weapon sweeps regularly to in order to remove hidden weapons and prevent their potential use in violent crime. Actioned 15 April 2026 |
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London Bridge & West Bermondsey ward area has a wide array of small supermarkets that are targetted by prolific shoplifters. These individuals are often linked into our other ward priority of Issued 15 January 2026 |
The team regularly use Community Protection Warning and Community Protection Notices to help curb the ASB that is associated with drug use. Stop and search where grounds allow is used and those that are found in possession of drugs are processed in the appropriate manner. The team conduct regular engagement activity with the Street Population sign posting them to services in order to house and rehabilitate. Joint patrols with a specialist NHS nurse dedicated to the Street Population, drugs and alcohol support workers, charity outreach workers and the Street Population lead for Southwark Council. Those committing crime or anti-social behaviour are dealt with appropriately Actioned 15 April 2026 |
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London Bridge & West Bermondsey ward area has a wide array of small supermarkets that are targeted by prolific shoplifters. These individuals are often linked into our other ward priority of drug use and vagrancy. Issued 12 January 2026 |
The Safer Neighbourhoods Team work with venues to identify prolific repeat offenders who account for the vast majority of offences. Actioned 15 April 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 London Bridge & West Bermondsey are saying are the issues in the area:
Latest Alerts
Community Meeting : Sun 31 May 16:00
Hello London Bridge & West Bermondsey residents, our next meet the police meeting will be on the...
Leathermarket Gardens
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ST SAVIOURS ESTATE
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LEATHERMARKET GARDENS AND BERMONDSEY STREET SE1
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Drug users and vagrancy
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Vehicle seizure-Persistent offender
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Local Priorities Personal theft (e.g. pick pocketing, no violence used) Message
Dear Resident, I wanted to provide you with an update regarding Personal theft (e.g. pick pocketing,...
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Upcoming Events
Community Meeting
- The Bermondsey Square Hotel, 9 Bermondsey Square, SE1 3UN
- 31/05/2026 16:00
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