Brompton & Hans Town

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Brompton & Hans Town 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 Brompton&HansTown@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).

Greig Baker-Doyle

Inspector

Darren Chaplin

Vinnie Costa

Sergeant

Chris Meade-King

Police Constable

Stephanie Mustard

Police Constable

Tyler O'hare

Inspector

Benjamin Tivey

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: To reduce knife-enabled watch robberies in the streets surrounding Brompton Road and Sloane Street. This can be measured by the number of such crimes reported to police. This can be achieved by operations targeting robbery hotspot areas, high-visibility foot and cycle patrols, targeted use of stop and search tactics, and target hardening through crime prevention advice and engagement via social media. This issue has historically been prevalent across AW BCU, and previous years have seen the number of offences rising in the warmer summer months, when victim's watches are more likely to be visible. A number of these offences have received viral coverage on social media, and this type of crime continues to be a matter of concern for Ward Panel members. This will be measured and reviewed at the next Ward Panel meeting (every 3 months). Issued 16 July 2025	Proactive and plain-clothes operations have been carried out across the AW BCU involving officers from specialist police units, which have resulted in the arrest of a number of suspects for watch robbery offences. Officers have also been running regular crime prevention stands, promoting initiatives such as the 'Look up, look out' campaign. Actioned 08 April 2025
Theft From Motor Vehicles: To reduce Theft From Motor Vehicle offences in Hans Place, Egerton Gardens and Lowndes Square. This can be measured by the number of such crimes reported to police in these areas. This can be achieved by high-visibility foot and cycle patrols, plain-clothes deployments in conjunction with pursuit-trained units, targeted use of stop and search tactics, and target hardening through crime prevention advice via social media/leaflet drops and working with RBK&C Council to install signage/CCTV on affected streets. The number of these type of offences has previously peaked over the winter months, leading up to and following on from Christmas. Crime figures show that levels of this type of crime had reduced on the ward by around 50% since Winter 2023, however it is still one of the most prevalent offences on the ward, and recently in February and March 2025 there was a marked increase in these crimes. This concern is shared by Ward Panel members. This will be measured and reviewed at the next Ward Panel meeting (every three months). Issued 16 July 2025	Proactive patrols carried out over the past 12 months as part of Op LUBBOCHI, and more recently intelligence-led patrols linked to a prolific suspect for these offences, who was arrested in March. Crime prevention leaflets have been given out to vehicle owners, as well as crime prevention stands being run on the ward. Actioned 08 April 2025
Residential Burglary: To reduce residential burglary offences occurring across the ward – no current repeat hotspot locations. This can be measured by the number of such crimes reported to police in these areas. This can be achieved by high-visibility foot and cycle patrols, targeted use of stop and search tactics, and target hardening through effective use of cocooning visits, crime prevention advice via social media and face-to-face community engagement events. This number of these type of offences has previously risen over the summer months, when some homes are unoccupied with people away on holiday, and windows left open due to warmer weather. Historically this type of crime also tends to increase in the months leading up to Christmas. This will be measured and reviewed at the next Ward Panel meeting (every three months). Issued 16 July 2025	Burglary crime prevention ('cocooning') visits are carried out to each victim of residential burglary, as well as to neighbouring properties. Regular crime prevention stands have also been run on the ward, as well as proactive intelligence-led patrols targeting known offenders. Actioned 08 April 2025

Priority

Action taken

Robbery:

To reduce knife-enabled watch robberies in the streets surrounding Brompton Road and Sloane Street.

This can be measured by the number of such crimes reported to police.

This can be achieved by operations targeting robbery hotspot areas, high-visibility foot and cycle patrols, targeted use of stop and search tactics, and target hardening through crime prevention advice and engagement via social media.

This issue has historically been prevalent across AW BCU, and previous years have seen the number of offences rising in the warmer summer months, when victim's watches are more likely to be visible. A number of these offences have received viral coverage on social media, and this type of crime continues to be a matter of concern for Ward Panel members.

This will be measured and reviewed at the next Ward Panel meeting (every 3 months).

Issued 16 July 2025

Proactive and plain-clothes operations have been carried out across the AW BCU involving officers from specialist police units, which have resulted in the arrest of a number of suspects for watch robbery offences.

Officers have also been running regular crime prevention stands, promoting initiatives such as the 'Look up, look out' campaign.

Actioned 08 April 2025

Theft From Motor Vehicles:

To reduce Theft From Motor Vehicle offences in Hans Place, Egerton Gardens and Lowndes Square.

This can be measured by the number of such crimes reported to police in these areas.

This can be achieved by high-visibility foot and cycle patrols, plain-clothes deployments in conjunction with pursuit-trained units, targeted use of stop and search tactics, and target hardening through crime prevention advice via social media/leaflet drops and working with RBK&C Council to install signage/CCTV on affected streets.

The number of these type of offences has previously peaked over the winter months, leading up to and following on from Christmas. Crime figures show that levels of this type of crime had reduced on the ward by around 50% since Winter 2023, however it is still one of the most prevalent offences on the ward, and recently in February and March 2025 there was a marked increase in these crimes. This concern is shared by Ward Panel members.

This will be measured and reviewed at the next Ward Panel meeting (every three months).

Issued 16 July 2025

Proactive patrols carried out over the past 12 months as part of Op LUBBOCHI, and more recently intelligence-led patrols linked to a prolific suspect for these offences, who was arrested in March.

Crime prevention leaflets have been given out to vehicle owners, as well as crime prevention stands being run on the ward.

Actioned 08 April 2025

Residential Burglary:

To reduce residential burglary offences occurring across the ward – no current repeat hotspot locations.

This can be measured by the number of such crimes reported to police in these areas.

This can be achieved by high-visibility foot and cycle patrols, targeted use of stop and search tactics, and target hardening through effective use of cocooning visits, crime prevention advice via social media and face-to-face community engagement events.

This number of these type of offences has previously risen over the summer months, when some homes are unoccupied with people away on holiday, and windows left open due to warmer weather. Historically this type of crime also tends to increase in the months leading up to Christmas.

This will be measured and reviewed at the next Ward Panel meeting (every three months).

Issued 16 July 2025

Burglary crime prevention ('cocooning') visits are carried out to each victim of residential burglary, as well as to neighbouring properties.

Regular crime prevention stands have also been run on the ward, as well as proactive intelligence-led patrols targeting known offenders.

Actioned 08 April 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 Brompton & Hans Town are saying are the issues in the area:

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