Barnehurst

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Barnehurst 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 Barnehurst@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).

Donna Allan (Metropolitan Police, PCSO, Barnehurst Ward)

Donna Allan

PCSO

Cuneyt Arif (Metropolitan Police, Police Constable, Barnehurst)

Cuneyt Arif

Police Constable

Thomas Bishop (Metropolitan Police, Police Constable, BARNEHURST SNT)

Thomas Bishop

Police Constable

Rachael Jarman (Metropolitan Police, Inspector, Bexley)

Rachael Jarman

Inspector

Glen Turner (Metropolitan Police, Sergeant, Safer Neighbourhoods, Wards Crayford & Barnehurst )

Glen Turner

Sergeant

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

Violent crime/drugs concerns.
Been informed by local members of the community and officers own work around suspicion and concerns of ASB and alleged drug dealing.
This is to include the locality around Barnehurst train station including local shops and residential block of flats.



Issued 20 October 2025

Action taken:
Our team to increase patrols with a mixture of high visibility and plain clothes and where required enforcement and engagement. Identifying groups, individuals and vehicles of interest and co-ordinate a response of educating and enforcement through direct stops and searches where evidence exists and deal with appropriately through methods such as arrests, CPNW, partnership referrals. Build and increase the intelligence picture by our own knowledge supported by the information of local residents and police systems such as crime mapping . This will enable us to focus the teams efforts.

Actioned 20 October 2025

ASB with emphasis to Colyers Lane, Hurstwood Avenue, Birling Road and locality.

Issued 20 October 2025

Our team to increase patrols with a variety of high visibility and plain clothes to increase enforcement and engagement. This will result in a variety of outcomes from arrests to CPNW and other methods escalating to CBO’s if required. Engagement with residents where local residents are identified as being anti social working with partners to deal.

Actioned 20 October 2025

Motor vehicle crime with emphasis to ABC roads and Colyers Lane

Issued 20 October 2025

Action taken:
Our team to increase patrols with a variety of high visibility and plain clothes to increase enforcement when required. Educating residents where required to target harden localities and thereby reduce opportunities of crime occurring. Through our own work and engaging with the public to build on the intelligence picture which will enable the team to focus and concentrate our efforts.


Actioned 20 October 2025

ASB using vehicles and issues raised around residential streets of ASB. Concerns raised by local residents relating to speeding vehicles in and around Colyers Lane, Hurstwood Avenue and locality. Concerns raised about ASB around Cumbrian Avenue and the behaviour of some residents.

Issued 19 June 2025

Patrols to be done in and around these localities and where required engagement with residents who are causing ASB working in partnership with other agencies where required. To undertake speed operation around enforcement and education.

Actioned 19 June 2025

Violence related priority.
This is including drug use/supply. Violent crime including drug use and drug dealing. the areas to target ate Merewood Road, Windermere Road and Grasmere and local vicinity.

Issued 19 June 2025

Mobile patrols and foot patrols in and around locations identified. Plain clothes patrols to be carried out as well as high visibility patrols and to action any intel that is obtained.

Actioned 19 June 2025

Motor Vehicle Crime. This involves theft of motor vehicles and theft from motor vehicles and any vehicle interference focusing around Colyers Lane, Birling Road, Hurstwood Avenue and Parkside Avenue.

Issued 19 June 2025

Patrols to be done in vehicles and on foot. High visibility patrols and also plain clothes and action any local intel. Raise local awareness with residents around crime prevention.

Actioned 19 June 2025

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 Barnehurst are saying are the issues in the area:

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