Catford South

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 CatfordSouth.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 Catford South 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

Issues linked to drug related activity and the associated violence that goes with this within the ward. Local patrols and engagement across the ward to be carried out. Targeting where there are reports of Retail theft, drug dealing and misuse. Liaising with residents to gather intelligence.

Joint working with partners continue. BP Bromley Road - Crime generator - daily visits and visits to local business to reduce HSG opportunities.

Motor vehicle crime

Motor vehicle crime within the ward. Extra patrols to be undertaken in the hotspots, carrying out reassurance and providing advice via leaflet drops and personal engagement.

Patrols continue to be undertaken in hotspot areas, Cotton Hill, Penerly Road, Beechborough Road and roads to the rear of Fiat Garage. leaflet dropped once per month and CCTV/ NOMAD deployment considered

Burglary

Burglary crime within the ward. Extra patrols to be undertaken in the hotspots, carrying out reassurance and providing advice via leaflet drops and personal engagement.

Hi Viz Pulse Patrols on foot -crime prevention advice. Muirkirk Road - Bromley Road - Bellingham Road sub area.

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.