St Mary Cray

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St Mary Cray 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 StMaryCray@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

Harry Donovan

Police Constable

Alex Farmer

Police Sergeant

George Lawrence

Police Constable

Karina Petrova

PCSO

Lily Richards

PCSO

Hazel Woolger

PCSO

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
Shoplifting offences account for the largest proportion of all crime recorded on the ward. The Nugent Retail Park in SMC is known as a hotpot for shoplifting offences and is a significant crime generator. With a large number of retail outlets, the area is frequented by prolific, priority offenders, known to police to be drug dependent who often offend to fund their addiction. Items stolen include cosmetics, meat, alcohol and certain medium to high value clothing. The area is also known for persons approaching shoppers, asking for money in the street, or when standing at cashpoints. They can be verbally aggressive with members of the public who decline to give them money. These crimes and ASB place additional demand on local policing and discourages members of the public from shopping at the location, which in turn has a negative effect upon trade. Issued 24 February 2026	Regular uniformed patrols are carried out along with targeted plain clothes tasking. The police have built strong working relationships with site security and meet regularly for the purposes of information exchange. We will be intelligence lead, targeting our prolific and priority offenders who cause the most harm. The team will work closely with Project Adder, making referrals for those struggling with substance abuse. We will utilise powers under the ASB, Crime and Policing Act to serve ABC’s and Community Protection Notices to curb offending. We will closely monitor outstanding offenders and execute arrest warrants. We will work with local businesses, offering crime prevention advice and support them in making changes to target harden premises. Actioned 24 May 2026
Star Lane and its environs are known as a hot spot for a number of issues namely drug use/supply and associated ASB. The area is also known for the offences of going equipped, vehicle interference and theft of/from motor vehicles. Issued 24 February 2026	The local policing team will address this by increasing patrols in the area and by working in partnership with the council, housing and other agencies to target known offenders. We will support victims and strive to safeguard those considered vulnerable. The team will work closely with Project Adder to make referrals for those struggling with substance abuse. We will use powers under the ASB, Crime and Policing Act to serve ABC’s and Community Protection Notices to curb offending. We will closely monitor outstanding offenders and execute arrest warrants. Actioned 24 May 2026
“Cuckooing“ is defined as the criminal exploitation of vulnerable people, involving the use of their homes as a base for criminal activities, through intimidation, or in exchange for drugs. The impact of persons being cuckooed can be extremely harmful, not just to those directly involved, but to the wider community, through increased drug use/supply and ASB. Issued 24 February 2026	The safer neighbourhoods team will tackle this by safeguarding vulnerable people, through target hardening of victims and locations. We will take a collaborative approach, working closely with partners such a Bromley Council, BDAS , ADDER and mental health services. We will utilise powers provided through the Anti-Social, Crime and Policing Act 2014 to seek closure of affected premises and target those involved in the exploitation of vulnerable residents. Actioned 24 May 2026

Priority

Action taken

Shoplifting offences account for the largest proportion of all crime recorded on the ward. The Nugent Retail Park in SMC is known as a hotpot for shoplifting offences and is a significant crime generator. With a large number of retail outlets, the area is frequented by prolific, priority offenders, known to police to be drug dependent who often offend to fund their addiction. Items stolen include cosmetics, meat, alcohol and certain medium to high value clothing. The area is also known for persons approaching shoppers, asking for money in the street, or when standing at cashpoints. They can be verbally aggressive with members of the public who decline to give them money. These crimes and ASB place additional demand on local policing and discourages members of the public from shopping at the location, which in turn has a negative effect upon trade.

Issued 24 February 2026

Regular uniformed patrols are carried out along with targeted plain clothes tasking. The police have built strong working relationships with site security and meet regularly for the purposes of information exchange. We will be intelligence lead, targeting our prolific and priority offenders who cause the most harm. The team will work closely with Project Adder, making referrals for those struggling with substance abuse. We will utilise powers under the ASB, Crime and Policing Act to serve ABC’s and Community Protection Notices to curb offending. We will closely monitor outstanding offenders and execute arrest warrants. We will work with local businesses, offering crime prevention advice and support them in making changes to target harden premises.

Actioned 24 May 2026

Star Lane and its environs are known as a hot spot for a number of issues namely drug use/supply and associated ASB. The area is also known for the offences of going equipped, vehicle interference and theft of/from motor vehicles.

Issued 24 February 2026

The local policing team will address this by increasing patrols in the area and by working in partnership with the council, housing and other agencies to target known offenders. We will support victims and strive to safeguard those considered vulnerable. The team will work closely with Project Adder to make referrals for those struggling with substance abuse. We will use powers under the ASB, Crime and Policing Act to serve ABC’s and Community Protection Notices to curb offending. We will closely monitor outstanding offenders and execute arrest warrants.

Actioned 24 May 2026

“Cuckooing“ is defined as the criminal exploitation of vulnerable people, involving the use of their homes as a base for criminal activities, through intimidation, or in exchange for drugs. The impact of persons being cuckooed can be extremely harmful, not just to those directly involved, but to the wider community, through increased drug use/supply and ASB.

Issued 24 February 2026

The safer neighbourhoods team will tackle this by safeguarding vulnerable people, through target hardening of victims and locations. We will take a collaborative approach, working closely with partners such a Bromley Council, BDAS , ADDER and mental health services. We will utilise powers provided through the Anti-Social, Crime and Policing Act 2014 to seek closure of affected premises and target those involved in the exploitation of vulnerable residents.

Actioned 24 May 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 St Mary Cray are saying are the issues in the area:

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