Shirley North

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Shirley North 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 ShirleyNorth@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).

Kieran Green

PCSO

Sonia O'mahony

Police Constable

Sian-Louise Poole

Police Constable

Nathan Saville

Sergeant

Andrew Smith

Inspector

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
Shirley North ward priority Drug related ASB We continue to receive concerns of drug related ASB along Woodmere Avenue in particular the stretch of road that runs adjacent to Ashburton playing fields. This is particularly form vehicles using this area as a place to park and consume drugs, with a variety of drug paraphernalia and large amounts of litter left behind. Issued 22 January 2026	High visibility patrols have been conducted in the affected area and will continue with the use of stop and search powers where grounds exist. There will also be consideration for community protection warnings and notices to be issued to those who persistently cause ASB within the area. Engagement with residents has also been completed to offer reassurance and highlight police presence within the area. Actioned 04 March 2026
Motor Vehicle Crime ASB Reports of vehicle related ASB have been reported by local resident of Shirley Oaks. Their concerns have been discussed in Ward panels and community engagement events and particularly focussed on dangerous driving/speeding along Primrose Lane which is the main connecting road around the Shirley Oaks estate. Issued 22 January 2026	The team will seek to: - Conduct local speed gun operations on and around Primrose Lane - Engage with local community regarding any intelligence of repeat offenders - Consider section 59’s for any offenders committing vehicle related ASB Actioned 04 March 2026
Shoplifting Following an increase in recorded shoplifting offences and some good positive work from the team, the ward panel were keen to maintain the work by adding it as one of the priorities. It has been discussed as a ward priority at every ward panel since and the community concern survey highlights that shoplifting is a priority for residents of the ward Issued 22 January 2026	The team have been working with BP Shirley Road to tackle prolific shoplifting in the area and we will be continuing this work along with stores along Wickham Road such as the Co-op who have been similarly targeted by offenders. We will be working with local business to catch prolific shoplifters on the ward. Actioned 22 February 2026

Priority

Action taken

Shirley North ward priority Drug related ASB

We continue to receive concerns of drug related ASB along Woodmere Avenue in particular the stretch of road that runs adjacent to Ashburton playing fields. This is particularly form vehicles using this area as a place to park and consume drugs, with a variety of drug paraphernalia and large amounts of litter left behind.

Issued 22 January 2026

High visibility patrols have been conducted in the affected area and will continue with the use of stop and search powers where grounds exist.
There will also be consideration for community protection warnings and notices to be issued to those who persistently cause ASB within the area.
Engagement with residents has also been completed to offer reassurance and highlight police presence within the area.

Actioned 04 March 2026

Motor Vehicle Crime ASB

Reports of vehicle related ASB have been reported by local resident of Shirley Oaks. Their concerns have been discussed in Ward panels and community engagement events and particularly focussed on dangerous driving/speeding along Primrose Lane which is the main connecting road around the Shirley Oaks estate.

Issued 22 January 2026

The team will seek to:
- Conduct local speed gun operations on and around Primrose Lane
- Engage with local community regarding any intelligence of repeat offenders
- Consider section 59’s for any offenders committing vehicle related ASB

Actioned 04 March 2026

Shoplifting

Following an increase in recorded shoplifting offences and some good positive work from the team, the ward panel were keen to maintain the work by adding it as one of the priorities. It has been discussed as a ward priority at every ward panel since and the community concern survey highlights that shoplifting is a priority for residents of the ward

Issued 22 January 2026

The team have been working with BP Shirley Road to tackle prolific shoplifting in the area and we will be continuing this work along with stores along Wickham Road such as the Co-op who have been similarly targeted by offenders. We will be working with local business to catch prolific shoplifters on the ward.

Actioned 22 February 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 Shirley North are saying are the issues in the area:

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