Crayford

Welcome to Met Engage,

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Through our new platform Met Engage you can get to know your local officers, help shape how we police your local area and have direct access to key information and advice.

This isn't just a platform for us to tell you what we're doing in your area, it's an opportunity for you to tell us what's concerning you most so we can take action on the things that truly matter to you.

Crayford 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 Crayford@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).

Joyce Barlow

PCSO

Amy Gregory

Police Constable

Oliver Groves

Police Constable

Rachael Jarman

Neighbourhood Inspector

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
Violence related priority Issued 20 October 2026	Violence reduction is number one aim across the Metropolitan Police . The team will conduct high visibility patrols and undertake specific tasks around the local train station and surrounding areas where we are aware of ASB and an increase in reporting. We will engage with local residents and also business and staff. Actioned 20 January 2027
Drug dealing/ASB Concerns and issues have been raised locally with relation to concerns and suspicious behaviour around ASB and alleged drug dealing in the area. Issued 20 October 2026	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 January 2027
Anti- Social Behaviour: Town Hall Square & locality. This relates to the Town Hall Square estate and adjacent Crayford retail park and Haberdasher Academy. There has been an increase in particular locations for ASB by groups of youths relating to thefts, bad behaviour towards shop staff and residents and drug misuse. Issued 20 October 2026	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 business within the retail park and also engagement with residents of Town Hall Square. Where local residents are identified as being anti social working with partners to deal. If there are any issues with relation to the estate bringing this to the attention of Pea Body and working in conjunction with them to identify and resolve potential problems. Working in conjunction with the design out crime via visual audits where necessary. Actioned 20 January 2027
Theft shoplifting/ASB re the Retail park and Sainsburys. Issued 20 October 2026	Our team to increase patrols with a mixture of high visibility and plain clothes and where required enforcement and engagement. Patrols in the specific locations being targetted and surrounding area's, identifying and targetting prolific offenders and prosecutions where appropriate and joint working with store security and business's focusing on crime reduction. With relation to engagement regular retailer visits and information sharing with local businesses alongside reassurance patrols for staff and customers and support retailers on evidence gathering and reporting. Where possible engagement with repeat offenders through intervention and referral pathways where suitable. Actioned 20 January 2027

Priority

Action taken

Violence related priority

Issued 20 October 2026

Violence reduction is number one aim across the Metropolitan Police . The team will conduct high visibility patrols and undertake specific tasks around the local train station and surrounding areas where we are aware of ASB and an increase in reporting. We will engage with local residents and also business and staff.

Actioned 20 January 2027

Drug dealing/ASB
Concerns and issues have been raised locally with relation to concerns and suspicious behaviour around ASB and alleged drug dealing in the area.

Issued 20 October 2026

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 January 2027

Anti- Social Behaviour:
Town Hall Square & locality. This relates to the Town Hall Square estate and adjacent Crayford retail park and Haberdasher Academy. There has been an increase in particular locations for ASB by groups of youths relating to thefts, bad behaviour towards shop staff and residents and drug misuse.

Issued 20 October 2026

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 business within the retail park and also engagement with residents of Town Hall Square. Where local residents are identified as being anti social working with partners to deal. If there are any issues with relation to the estate bringing this to the attention of Pea Body and working in conjunction with them to identify and resolve potential problems. Working in conjunction with the design out crime via visual audits where necessary.

Actioned 20 January 2027

Theft shoplifting/ASB re the Retail park and Sainsburys.

Issued 20 October 2026

Our team to increase patrols with a mixture of high visibility and plain clothes and where required enforcement and engagement. Patrols in the specific locations being targetted and surrounding area's, identifying and targetting prolific offenders and prosecutions where appropriate and joint working with store security and business's focusing on crime reduction. With relation to engagement regular retailer visits and information sharing with local businesses alongside reassurance patrols for staff and customers and support retailers on evidence gathering and reporting.
Where possible engagement with repeat offenders through intervention and referral pathways where suitable.

Actioned 20 January 2027

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 Crayford are saying are the issues in the area:

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