Sidcup

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 Sidcup.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 Sidcup 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

Violence against person. Focused on Women and youths - High visibility patrols of the ward from dusk focusing on transport hubs and night time economy areas.

Patrols of locations around transport HUBS and night time economies. Extended shifts covering local college finishing times.

Sidcup High Street patrols

Autumn/Winter nights see the nights get longer and ASB increases in public places. Hotspot patrolling using historic crime data to establish repeat locations. Working with Police ASB team to apply for community behaviour orders on repeat offenders, Acceptable Behaviour Contracts for youths and civil injunctions with Bexley CSP and Community protection notices for adults to disrupt and deter crime. Further joint meetings to be held with Sidcup High Street businesses for crime and ASB.

High visibility patrols and businesses engaged with ongoing trends, crime prevention advice and support reports made to police.

MV Crime

Theft of Motor Vehicle targeting keyless entry vehicle crime by way of events, training and networking. Crime prevention advice and emails have been sent to our KINS network. Keen to promote further and gain extra contacts. Theft from Motor Vehicle patrols during twilight and dusk. Crime prevention emails to lock personal vehicles and remove property from show, engagement stands and working to encourage vans to mark tools. Boot fair patrols then need to be completed to identify forensically marked property.

Ongoing operations, innovation hub, events and training around TOMV and TFMV. Tool marking events at DITY store locations. Joint Kent / Met proactive operations

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.