New Addington South

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.NewAddingtonSouthSNT@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 New Addington South 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

Reducing youth violence by positive action including arrest and other out of court options. Reduce incidents / work in partnership with other agencies to deal with offenders effectively.

Officers have conducted Hi-Vis patrols in the area to engage with youth and deal with issues that are raised and signpost to partner agencies to help divert youth from crime alongside partner agencies involved in VRU work

Anti-Social Behaviour & Drugs

Educating victims on crime prevention and promoting crime reducing advice on our social media platforms, combined with late night patrols.

Officers conduct patrols in hotspot areas in order to try to reduce ASB whilst keeping the public updated with posts on social media.

Safeguarding

Reducing violent behaviour / Engaging with local groups encouraging good behaviour in a positive manner.

Officers have worked with partner agencies, signposting where we are able.

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.