Wealdstone South

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Wealdstone South 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 WealdstoneSouth@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).

Yoshni Bandhu

Police Constable

Walkiria De Santana Moura

Police Constable

Adrian Plavie

PCSO

Obaidullah Rauf

PCSO

Lewis Reardon

Police Constable

Alexander Rose

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
Violence – Focus on a reduction in violent crime on Wealdstone High Street. Issued 01 April 2026	The specific object of this priority is to target and identify local criminal groups and individuals committing offences in Wealdstone. High Visibility patrols on the High Street in combination with plain clothes proactive patrols to target key offenders. Operation Turkana & Lapetiss, which focused on Gang Violence and Drug Dealing - resulted in the arrest of ten individuals, Robbery, Possession of an Offensive Weapon, drug supply and possession Actioned 30 June 2026
Wealdstone South SNT is committed in the reduction in Drug Use and ASB along Wealdstone High Street. This will be achieved through joint working with partner agencies and proactive patrols in known street drinking locations to deter ASB and conduct proactive patrols to tackle drug use. Issued 01 April 2026	Daily patrols of Wealdstone South whilst engaging with members of the community on their individual perception of safety. Increase patrols on Friday and Saturday evenings. The team are proactively patrolling hotspot areas, providing a high visibility deterrence against offenders. Plain clothes operations are continually being conducted apprehend prolific offenders. Actioned 30 June 2026
Target and disrupt Shoplifting across the ward. Issued 01 April 2026	Officers continue to conduct both plain clothes and high visibility patrols across the ward to target prolific offenders that operate on Wealdstone High Street. Actioned 30 June 2026

Priority

Action taken

Violence – Focus on a reduction in violent crime on Wealdstone High Street.

Issued 01 April 2026

The specific object of this priority is to target and identify local criminal groups and individuals committing offences in Wealdstone.

High Visibility patrols on the High Street in combination with plain clothes proactive patrols to target key offenders.
Operation Turkana & Lapetiss, which focused on Gang Violence and Drug Dealing - resulted in the arrest of ten individuals, Robbery, Possession of an Offensive Weapon, drug supply and possession

Actioned 30 June 2026

Wealdstone South SNT is committed in the reduction in Drug Use and ASB along Wealdstone High Street. This will be achieved through joint working with partner agencies and proactive patrols in known street drinking locations to deter ASB and conduct proactive patrols to tackle drug use.

Issued 01 April 2026

Daily patrols of Wealdstone South whilst engaging with members of the community on their individual perception of safety. Increase patrols on Friday and Saturday evenings.
The team are proactively patrolling hotspot areas, providing a high visibility deterrence against offenders. Plain clothes operations are continually being conducted apprehend prolific offenders.

Actioned 30 June 2026

Target and disrupt Shoplifting across the ward.

Issued 01 April 2026

Officers continue to conduct both plain clothes and high visibility patrols across the ward to target prolific offenders that operate on Wealdstone High Street.

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 Wealdstone South are saying are the issues in the area:

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