St Mary's & St James

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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.

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St Mary's & St James - Bexley 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 StMarys&StJames-Bexley@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).

Lovyna Dee

PCSO

Gareth Evans

Inspector

Robert Holmes

Police Constable

Rachael Jarman

Neighbourhood Inspector

Ryan Muldoon

Police Constable

Christopher Walsh

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
ASB - this is more specifically in relation to youth and the school children, focusing on activity around Foots Cray Meadows and wild life offences. Issued 19 May 2026	High visibility vehicle patrols will occur through out the shifts to prevent and deter any Anti social behaviour and foot patrols around foots cray meadows to tackle ASB and wildlife offences. Cycle patrols will also be conducted through the meadows to tackle ongoing issues. Any persons caught or identified as causing ASB will be given warnings. If continued ASB occurs then further measures will be implemented, which may include Acceptable Behaviour Contracts (ABC), Community Protection Notice Warning (CPNW), Community Protection Warning (CPN), arrest and possible charges for any offences. Any wildlife offences will be reported and investigated Actioned 19 August 2026
Motor Vehicle Crime and Road Safety - This is in relation to all motor vehicle offences, including speeding, driving with no insurance, driving not in accordance with a driving licence and theft of and theft from a motor vehicle. Issued 19 May 2026	Crime prevention events to prevent offences. Cocooning around offences, street briefings and Operations Road safety speeding operations on various points of the ward. Joint MV crime proactive operations with Kent Police. Crime Prevention messaging through Met Engage. High visibility and plain clothes Patrols will be conducted throughout shifts to combat these problems. Actioned 19 August 2026
VAWG and violence reduction in and around Bexley Village Issued 19 May 2026	High visibility and plain clothes patrols in and around Bexley Village to tackle and reduce violence offences, including violence against women and girls (VAWG). High visibility operations at Bexley Train Station and businesses in Bexley Village to reduce offending and identify offenders. Licensing visits at establishments and engagement with licensee's to identify and deter offenders. Arresting outstanding high harm offenders to reduce offending. Actioned 19 August 2026

Priority

Action taken

ASB - this is more specifically in relation to youth and the school children, focusing on activity around Foots Cray Meadows and wild life offences.

Issued 19 May 2026

High visibility vehicle patrols will occur through out the shifts to prevent and deter any Anti social behaviour and foot patrols around foots cray meadows to tackle ASB and wildlife offences.
Cycle patrols will also be conducted through the meadows to tackle ongoing issues.
Any persons caught or identified as causing ASB will be given warnings. If continued ASB occurs then further measures will be implemented, which may include Acceptable Behaviour Contracts (ABC), Community Protection Notice Warning (CPNW), Community Protection Warning (CPN), arrest and possible charges for any offences.
Any wildlife offences will be reported and investigated

Actioned 19 August 2026

Motor Vehicle Crime and Road Safety - This is in relation to all motor vehicle offences, including speeding, driving with no insurance, driving not in accordance with a driving licence and theft of and theft from a motor vehicle.

Issued 19 May 2026

Crime prevention events to prevent offences.
Cocooning around offences, street briefings and Operations
Road safety speeding operations on various points of the ward.
Joint MV crime proactive operations with Kent Police.
Crime Prevention messaging through Met Engage.
High visibility and plain clothes Patrols will be conducted throughout shifts to combat these problems.

Actioned 19 August 2026

VAWG and violence reduction in and around Bexley Village

Issued 19 May 2026

High visibility and plain clothes patrols in and around Bexley Village to tackle and reduce violence offences, including violence against women and girls (VAWG).
High visibility operations at Bexley Train Station and businesses in Bexley Village to reduce offending and identify offenders.
Licensing visits at establishments and engagement with licensee's to identify and deter offenders.
Arresting outstanding high harm offenders to reduce offending.

Actioned 19 August 2026

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 St Mary's & St James are saying are the issues in the area:

Agree or not? Have your say now, click here to do the survey