Rye Lane
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Rye Lane 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 RyeLane@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).
Emmanuel Amponsah
PCSO
Gerard Collier Smith
Police Sergeant
Rhys Evans
Police Constable
Karen Miller
Police Constable
Sahar Musa
Police Constable
Jovana Tanackovic
PCSO
Gerard Collier Smith
Police Sergeant
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 - focus on Rye Lane and surrounding areas on the ward where robberies and hone snatches have been reported. Issued 01 November 2025 |
High visibility and undercover patrols have been increased on Rye Lane and we work closely with specialist units to identify perpetrators and take requisite action. Recent operations have seen a reduction in offences. These proactive operations are ongoing, in the interim we are working with partner agencies namely Trading standards and Home Office immigration officers to target shops selling stolen handsets. Achilles heel tactics are utilised to disrupt the business models and modus operandi of the OCN's. Actioned 05 November 2025 |
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Reduce drug dealing Issued 01 November 2025 |
Rye Lane is a priority ward and has seen an uplift of police officers present on the streets. Officers work with community partner organisations to engage with and identifying habitual drug users and guide them towards supporting services, alongside investigating the supply of drugs and enforcement action. An aim of this is a reduction in thefts, begging and anti-social behaviour. We have recently arrested charged and remanded three of the main drug dealers operating in the area and they are currently on court bail pending upcoming crown court trial for PWITS, concerned in supply class A drugs and Proceeds' of crime offences. We seize criminal assets and seek behaviour orders for persistent offenders, working with partners to remove social housing from subjects committing offences within their communities. In the last three weeks two crack houses have been closed down Actioned 05 November 2025 |
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Anti-social behaviour (ASB) - reduce all forms of ASB, including graffiti, aggressive begging, drug taking, street drinking, littering and prostitution.. Issued 01 November 2025 |
Patrols have increased across the ward and officers work in partnership with Southwark Council to tackle the issues. Engagement with local residents and business owners is ongoing. The team continue to develop proactive operations that specifically target the causes of ASB. Actioned 05 November 2025 |
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Targeting prolific shoplifters operating in and around Rye Lane. Issued 02 October 2025 |
A three month operation targeting shoplifting nominals, utilising covert and overt tactics. Prosecuting and issuing CBO'S, and CPN for suspects and grouping investigations to maximise charge and remand opportunities at crown court. Actioned 02 January 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 Rye Lane are saying are the issues in the area:
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