Kenley

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 speak to your local team about policing issues, and find out how you can get involved, you can email them at SNMailbox.KenleySNT@met.police.uk.

In an emergency always call 999.

If it is not an emergency, you can report crime online at www.met.police.uk or dial 101.

We regularly speak to local residents to establish what issues they may be experiencing in the area. The word cloud below represents the issues that residents of Kenley have highlighted as priorities for the area recently. Word clouds are graphical representations of word frequency that give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently. The larger the word in the visual below the more common the word was in the local survey.

We seek to tackle the issues raised by you and your communities in your local area. To 'Have your say' on local issues, please click on the button below to complete a short survey.

Violence Related Priority

Proactive patrol on Kenley Ward to reduce/prevent crime's within the Ward. Patrol known hot spot areas on our Ward. Regular patrols at places known to us as ASB hot spots. GODSTONE RD, OLD LODGE LANE. Concerns were also raised by the community about Domestic abuse. In response officers will continue to raise awareness and publicity on help /support and reporting options in a focus on this aspect of the Violence Against the person priority.

Your SNT team have been out patrolling the hotspot areas. Both on foot and mobile. This has been posted out on recent Police social media. We will continue to support the ward.

THEFT OFFENCES

Raising awareness and carrying out reassurance visits. As well as providing residents with crime prevention advice. Targeting Shoplifters in the Kenley Area.

The team often send out posts about crime prevention and patrol hotspot areas. The ward PCSO has attended a new crime prevention course and will post some useful advice shortly. The Ward Sgt spoke with the Co-op staff and advised yhem to use the 999 system if they feel scared when shoplifters act. Due to this change in the stores actions response officers managed to arrest two suspects. One of the ward offices then linked 8 other offences to one-off the suspects and due to this they were charged with 9 shoplifting incidents and remanded to court.

Vehicle Crime

Reduce motor vehicle crime such as theft and interference by conducting regular patrols.

The Team continues to provide a mobile visible presence with the team Sgt to stop possible offenders and tackle car crime.

In an emergency always call 999. If it is not an emergency, you can report crime online at www.met.police.uk or dial 101.