Selhurst

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 Selhurst@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 Selhurst 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 Violent Crime as a Pan London objective working in conjunction with local residents and businesses to focus on hotspots areas and identified individuals

SNT officers have been carrying out high visibility patrols throughout the ward. Officers will be increasing partnerships between local businesses and assisting with crime prevention advice

Traffic Offences

Local residents have raised concerns that a number of road users are committing road traffic offences on the ward.

The team were out and about on 20/01/2025 conducting speed enforcement. The team will continue with this work also concentrating on road users who use their mobile phones whilst driving.

Drug Use

Local residents have raised concerns regard drug use and dealing within certain locations within the Selhurst Ward

The SNT secured a two closure orders in December 2024 - one at Ringstead Court and the other at Elmwood Road. These closure orders were obtained due to a serious nuisance it caused to residents due to drug use.

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.