Squirrels Heath

Welcome to Met Engage,

We're transforming the Met to become a service that truly delivers for you.

Through our new platform Met Engage you can get to know your local officers, help shape how we police your local area and have direct access to key information and advice.

This isn't just a platform for us to tell you what we're doing in your area, it's an opportunity for you to tell us what's concerning you most so we can take action on the things that truly matter to you.

Squirrels Heath 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 SquirrelsHeath@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).

Kiran Hicks

Police Constable

Edward Ireland

PCSO

Chris Mathieson

PCSO

Andrew Meredith

Sergeant

Scott Riches

Police Constable

Abbie Rose-Horne

Police Constable

Daniel Topps

Sergeant

Matt Willison

Inspector

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
Theft of / Theft from Motor Vehicle Issued 30 June 2026	Strategic Aim - to reduce crime, criminal opportunity and fear of crime around acquisitive crime involving vehicles. Operational Aim - intelligence led Enforcement activities to identify offenders and bring them to justice. Engagement and Educational initiative to reduce risk of crime and designing out criminal opportunity. Actions Taken - Day of action / Community Engagement day held with the most effected areas on the ward. Actioned 30 June 2025
Burglary Issued 13 June 2026	Strategic Aim - to reduce crime, criminal opportunity and fear of crime around Burglary. Operational Aim - intelligence led Enforcement activities to identify offenders and bring them to justice. Engagement and Educational initiatives to reduce risk of crime and designing out criminal opportunity. Actions Taken - Community engagement via stalls and walk, talk and do events. Actioned 30 June 2026
Robbery Issued 13 March 2026	Operational Aim - intelligence led Enforcement activities to identify offenders and bring them to justice. Engagement and Educational initiatives to reduce risk of crime and designing out criminal opportunity. Actions Taken - Plain Clothes and Uniformed Patrols by ward officers and the Town Centre Team around the hotspot areas Actioned 30 June 2026

Priority

Action taken

Theft of / Theft from Motor Vehicle

Issued 30 June 2026

Strategic Aim - to reduce crime, criminal opportunity and fear of crime around acquisitive crime involving vehicles.
Operational Aim - intelligence led Enforcement activities to identify offenders and bring them to justice. Engagement and Educational initiative to reduce risk of crime and designing out criminal opportunity.
Actions Taken - Day of action / Community Engagement day held with the most effected areas on the ward.

Actioned 30 June 2025

Burglary

Issued 13 June 2026

Strategic Aim - to reduce crime, criminal opportunity and fear of crime around Burglary.
Operational Aim - intelligence led Enforcement activities to identify offenders and bring them to justice. Engagement and Educational initiatives to reduce risk of crime and designing out criminal opportunity.
Actions Taken - Community engagement via stalls and walk, talk and do events.

Actioned 30 June 2026

Robbery

Issued 13 March 2026

Operational Aim - intelligence led Enforcement activities to identify offenders and bring them to justice. Engagement and Educational initiatives to reduce risk of crime and designing out criminal opportunity.
Actions Taken - Plain Clothes and Uniformed Patrols by ward officers and the Town Centre Team around the hotspot areas

Actioned 30 June 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 Squirrels Heath are saying are the issues in the area:

Agree or not? Have your say now, click here to do the survey