Bush Hill Park

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Bush Hill Park 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 BushHillPark@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).

Girvan Johnson

PCSO

Aaron King

Sergeant

Richard Lee

Inspector

Imran Mehmed

Police Constable

Jaya Morley

PCSO

Grace O'donoghue

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
Bush Hill Park Ward Priority 3: Bush Hill Road and environs - recent analysis of data indicates an increase in theft from motor vehicle and also theft of motor vehicle within this area. These have been opportunistic thefts from unlocked vehicles and also targeting keyless entry vehicles using signal relay devices. How you can help - always lock your vehicle and remove valuabes from view. Consider the use of steering locks, Faraday bags for keys (to jam signals) and private bollards that can be installed onto drive ways to act as a barrier. Issued 01 January 2026	1. High visibilty patrols in hotspot areas during key times 2. Plain clothes operations to identify and disrupt offenders. 3. Crime prevention visist/advice work shops. 4. Future communty engagement stalls. If you would like to be involved then please reach out the the DWO for the SNT. Actioned 03 January 2026
Bush Hill Park Ward Priority 1: Hyde Park Avenue was identified as an area for ASB and drug taking. This was brought to SNT attention by ward panel members who attended the last meeting on the 02/10/2025. This will be shown as ward priority 1 for Bush Hill Park. PMP Reference - PMP/24947/25 Issued 31 October 2025	Patrols will take place within this area and the environs that surround it. Focus will be on a garages section near to the road and towards the cemetery. This will be a mixture of hi visibility and also plain clothes patrols. Although the focus will be ASB there will also a drive to help prevent burglary in the area through crime prevention advice. Patrols continue within this area and have expanded to include Firs Lane. Actioned 03 January 2026
Bush Hill Park Ward Priority 2: Village Road/Park Avenue Burglary patrols. Conduct High Visibility Presence. Attended to speak with victims of burglary via reassurance calls, observe for cameras in the vicinity and encourage home owners to forward possible audio visual evidence (via EVIDENCE invite)to police. Engagement via social media (Online Watch Link & X), give crime prevention advice to victims and letting the public aware of related incidents in the area. Getting people to engage in new strategies to improving their home security. PMP Reference - PMP/82924/24 Issued 02 September 2025	Officers from this ward will shortly undergo cycle training, this will give the team more flexibilty to attend and patrol hot spot areas. Recent night time deployments of the areas have allowed officers to patrol at times when this crime is more likely to be committed. Update Officers have been conducting patrols in an effort to both prevent and detect crime. Part of the prevention stratergy continues to be advice to residents, particularly the elderly around home security and mitigation ideas. Actioned 03 January 2026

Priority

Action taken

Bush Hill Park Ward Priority 3: Bush Hill Road and environs - recent analysis of data indicates an increase in theft from motor vehicle and also theft of motor vehicle within this area. These have been opportunistic thefts from unlocked vehicles and also targeting keyless entry vehicles using signal relay devices.
How you can help - always lock your vehicle and remove valuabes from view. Consider the use of steering locks, Faraday bags for keys (to jam signals) and private bollards that can be installed onto drive ways to act as a barrier.

Issued 01 January 2026

1. High visibilty patrols in hotspot areas during key times
2. Plain clothes operations to identify and disrupt offenders.
3. Crime prevention visist/advice work shops.
4. Future communty engagement stalls.

If you would like to be involved then please reach out the the DWO for the SNT.

Actioned 03 January 2026

Bush Hill Park Ward Priority 1: Hyde Park Avenue was identified as an area for ASB and drug taking. This was brought to SNT attention by ward panel members who attended the last meeting on the 02/10/2025. This will be shown as ward priority 1 for Bush Hill Park. PMP Reference - PMP/24947/25

Issued 31 October 2025

Patrols will take place within this area and the environs that surround it. Focus will be on a garages section near to the road and towards the cemetery. This will be a mixture of hi visibility and also plain clothes patrols. Although the focus will be ASB there will also a drive to help prevent burglary in the area through crime prevention advice.
Patrols continue within this area and have expanded to include Firs Lane.

Actioned 03 January 2026

Bush Hill Park Ward Priority 2: Village Road/Park Avenue Burglary patrols. Conduct High Visibility Presence. Attended to speak with victims of burglary via reassurance calls, observe for cameras in the vicinity and encourage home owners to forward possible audio visual evidence (via EVIDENCE invite)to police. Engagement via social media (Online Watch Link & X), give crime prevention advice to victims and letting the public aware of related incidents in the area. Getting people to engage in new strategies to improving their home security. PMP Reference - PMP/82924/24

Issued 02 September 2025

Officers from this ward will shortly undergo cycle training, this will give the team more flexibilty to attend and patrol hot spot areas.
Recent night time deployments of the areas have allowed officers to patrol at times when this crime is more likely to be committed.
** Update ** Officers have been conducting patrols in an effort to both prevent and detect crime. Part of the prevention stratergy continues to be advice to residents, particularly the elderly around home security and mitigation ideas.

Actioned 03 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 Bush Hill Park are saying are the issues in the area:

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