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, Police Sergeant, London Bridge & West Bermondsey, Chaucer)

Iain Bartley

Police Sergeant

Paul Durrant (Metropolitan Police, PCSO, London Bridge and West Bermondsey)

Paul Durrant

PCSO

Joshua Head (Metropolitan Police, Police Constable, London bridge and west Bermondsey)

Joshua Head

Police Constable

Ali Hizyolu (Metropolitan Police, PCSO, London Bridge & West Bermondsey)

Ali Hizyolu

PCSO

Kaelon Parkes (Metropolitan Police, Police Constable, London Bridge & West Bermondsey)

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

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 02 October 2025

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 02 October 2025

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 02 October 2025

The Safer Neighbourhoods Team work with venues to identify prolific repeat offenders who account for the vast majority of offences.
Charges are served on these individuals and officers seek Criminal Behaviour Orders that can then be enforced to curb further behaviour in this area. The ward team have been successful in securing significant a high number of charges on persistent offenders.

Actioned 02 October 2025

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

Beggars, Rough sleepers and street drinkers across the ward though mainly Borough High Street, London Bridge station area and Tooley Street causing various Anti-social Behaviour such as rowdiness around shop areas and mess left near residential areas as well drug use.

Issued 02 October 2025

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 02 October 2025

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

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Community Meeting : Tue 04 Nov 18:00

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31/10/2025 16:26:59

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Ward Panel Meeting- 15/01/2026 7PM at Southwark Police Station : Thu 15 Jan 19:00

Dear Residents of London Bridge & West Bermondsey, Your local policing team invite you to join...

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31/10/2025 14:10:40

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Ward Panel Meeting- 15/01/2025 7PM at Southwark Police Station : Mon 27 Oct 11:16

Dear Residents of London Bridge & West Bermondsey, Your local policing team invite you to join...

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27/10/2025 11:20:08

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Patrols and arrests

London Bridge and West Bermondsey SNT carried out some patrols of our estates and park areas on Satu...

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26/10/2025 18:42:57

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Invitation - New Met for London!

Good Afternoon, I hope you are well. As Superintendent for Southwark, I want to personally thank you...

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25/10/2025 15:18:42

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Joint Partnership Success – Operation Roscoea, Southwark

Joint Partnership Success – Operation Roscoea, Southwark We’re pleased to share the success of Opera...

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25/10/2025 12:25:00

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Creasy Estate, Swan Mead and the Harold Estate

SNT have responded due to the reports of drug users coming onto the Creasy Estate and have increased...

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24/10/2025 10:04:17

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Robbery patrols

SNT are aware from speaking with our local community that phone snatches is high on the list of crim...

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24/10/2025 09:48:26

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