Bexleyheath

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 Bexleyheath.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 Bexleyheath 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

Met Priority Violence against persons

The majority of violent crime offences occur on the Broadway and occur late at night due to the night time economy. To help reduce this and protect the public SNT officers work later shifts as part of Operation Taxlaxia providing high visibility patrols at key times. Officers also patrol the Broadway at the end of the school day to help reduce instances of crime and ASB. We will also host crime prevention stands on The Broadway with some of these stands aimed specifically; on offering crime prevention advice to woman’s and girls

ASB vehicles/motor vehicle crimes

Residents raised concerns regarding recent motor vehicle crimes and asb related to motor vehicles.

Officers will continue to make residents aware of vehicle crime in areas suffering from this type of crime. We will do this by delivering motor vehicle crime prevention leaflets to residents in these areas and make sure we increase our time patrolling these areas.

Drug related offences

resident raised concerns regarding drugs related offences.

All reports of drug misuse will be acted upon. Patrols will be directed to locations known for drug misuse. Any intelligence received regarding suspected drug dealers will be developed and where appropriate search warrants will be obtained resulting in addresses being searched and where drugs are found are recovered criminal proceedings will be taken.

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.