Farnborough & Crofton
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Farnborough & Crofton 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 Farnborough&Crofton@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).
Stuart Baker
Inspector
Ben Cross
Police Constable
Alice Hammick-Smith
Sergeant
Michael Harden
PCSO
Shannon Pews
Police Constable
Julia Smith
PCSO
Harry Wilcox
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 |
|---|---|
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Reduce violent offences on the ward including, ASB with violence. Issued 15 April 2026 |
hi visibility patrols, identify individuals with a view to deter Actioned 16 July 2026 |
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Tackle prolific shoplifters across the ward Issued 15 April 2026 |
work with shopkeepers on reporting crime, work to identify individuals and deter from offending Actioned 16 July 2026 |
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To reduce the use of off road bikes and quads in the ward’s parks and open spaces, especially Darrick and Newstead Woods, and Farnborough Church Fields and other locations. By means of pro-active and plain clothes operations, and by encouraging the public to report with full descriptions to enable us to identify repeat offenders, issue Section 59 warnings and seize bikes where appropriate. Issued 15 April 2026 |
By means of pro-active and plain clothes operations, and by encouraging the public to report with full descriptions to enable us to identify repeat offenders, issue Section 59 warnings and seize bikes where appropriate. Actioned 16 July 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 Farnborough & Crofton are saying are the issues in the area:
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