Belvedere

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 Belvedere.SNT@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 Belvedere 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

General violence on the streets of Belvedere. London wide priority.

Working with the VAWG team from Bexleyheath Council. Hi-Visibility patrols to disrupt this as much as possible. Patrol areas based on intelligence gathered.

Motor Vehicle Crime and driving offences

There has been growing concerns about vehicles, a number of concerns about the vehicles being stolen, vehicles being used in crime and driving offences including speeding.

Crime prevention information stalls. Reassurance to victims for M/V crime, working with other agencies to deal with other vehicle issues. Search warrants conducted on offenders where the intel is available. Speed gun operations to be conducted to tackle speeding offences in Belvedere.

Drugs, ASB and shoplifting

Growing concern with drug use/dealing within the lower Belvedere area, mainly around Picardy Street and the surrounds. There is also a concern around shoplifting offences.

The team are out daily conducting proactive patrols and high vis proactive operations with knife arches and drugs dogs have been conducted around the local BR stations. Disruption to dealers in Lower Belvedere. Utilising stop and search has also led to nuisance drug users being dealt with. Acting on intel and focusing on building relationships with local community so information can be shared with police and acted upon. Crime prevention stalls around the local shops and supermarkets to provide reassurance and visible presence. Liaising with licencing and trading standards and conducting regular operations to ensure shops are complying with their roles and responsibilities.

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.