Rotherhithe

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 speak to your local team about policing issues, and find out how you can get involved, you can email them at SNTMD-.Rotherhithe@met.police.uk.

In an emergency always call 999.

If it is not an emergency, you can report crime online at www.met.police.uk or dial 101.

We regularly speak to local residents to establish what issues they may be experiencing in the area. The word cloud below represents the issues that residents of Rotherhithe have highlighted as priorities for the area recently. Word clouds are graphical representations of word frequency that give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently. The larger the word in the visual below the more common the word was in the local survey.

We seek to tackle the issues raised by you and your communities in your local area. To 'Have your say' on local issues, please click on the button below to complete a short survey.

Violence Related Priority

ASB/Bicycles- Work with local council to try and tackle the problems of the cycle lanes and the dangers it poses to public both on and off road.

We are working with Southwark Council to tackle the issues with the new cycle lane that has been opened recently. We have seen a number of incidents and near misses with cyclists and we are working with the council to see if there is a way to make it safe for everyone.

Theft snatches/Robbery

Theft snatches/Robbery- Phone Thefts around Canada Water station and Anti-social Behaviour issues concerning youths and intimidation. Residents and underground staff have been complaining that this is happening too often. Officers will step up patrols in the area and hand out information about phone safety and advise public.

We have been working with local community to try and make them aware of the issues surrounding theft snatches, We have been paying close attention to the Canada Water tube station area with flyers and visibility patrols to make people aware while using their mobile phones to be vigilant.

ASB / Drugs on estates

Disrupt Deter and reduce ASB and Drugs at local hotspots by being visible and doing regular patrols.

We take calls regularly to incidents and investigate reports of any Drug dealing in the area. The more we are seen the more trust we can build with our local community.

In an emergency always call 999. If it is not an emergency, you can report crime online at www.met.police.uk or dial 101.