Crayford
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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

Gareth Evans
Inspector

Amy Gregory
Police Constable

Oliver Groves
Police Constable

Rachael Jarman
Neighbourhood Inspector

Ersin Kesen
Police Sergeant

Melanie Pressley
Superintendent

Glen Turner
Sergeant

Steven Watson
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 |
|---|---|
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Anti-Social Behaviour by motor vehicles. Issued 05 November 2025 |
Our team will take direct action where possible in dealing with this type of anti-social behaviour. This may be by stopping the vehicles at the time or subsequently. This may be by using Section 59 legislation or other road traffic act legislation. Actioned 30 April 2025 |
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Anti-Social Behaviour in Crayford Town Centre Issued 05 November 2025 |
Our team to increase patrols and therefore do enforcement and engagement. Actioned 30 April 2025 |
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Violence related priority Issued 05 November 2025 |
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 30 April 2025 |
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Drug dealing/ASB Issued 05 November 2025 |
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 28 November 2025 |
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Anti- Social Behaviour: 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 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 28 November 2025 |
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Anti- Social Behaviour: Ponies and Gigs Issued 20 October 2025 |
Your team will conduct high visibility patrols in and around locations where youths have been seen riding gigs and thereby increasing enforcement and engagement in the locality. Youths will be identified and engagement with parents to tackle any concerns. Engagement with locals in relation to where and when locations are identified for animals being kept and check on the welfare. Again look at enforcement and education if any offences identified and co-ordinate work with partners such as the RSPCA if required. Actioned 28 November 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 Crayford are saying are the issues in the area:
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