Canbury Gardens

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Canbury Gardens 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 CanburyGardens@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).

Timoteo Dantas (Metropolitan Police, Police Constable, Canbury Gardens)

Timoteo Dantas

Police Constable

Christopher Hunston (Metropolitan Police, Inspector, Kingston Borough)

Christopher Hunston

Inspector

Lambri Paskalev (Metropolitan Police, PCSO, Canbury Gardens)

Lambri Paskalev

PCSO

Charlie Smith (Metropolitan Police, Sergeant, Canbury & Tudor wards)

Charlie Smith

Sergeant

Ben Woolmer (Metropolitan Police, Police Constable, Canbury Gardens)

Ben Woolmer

Police Constable

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

Shoplifting

Issued 04 November 2025

The team continue to closely monitor shoplifting on the ward. We work in conjunction with the manager at Co-Op regularly to report and investigate incidents of shoplifting and apprehend offenders.
We continue to regularly attend Co-op and Sainsburys and Shell in a mix of plain clothes and uniformed patrols to disrupt any offences from occurring.
This period there have been 11 reports of shoplifting made to Police. This is a reduction from 19 during the previous period.

Actioned 04 November 2025

Theft of Pedal Cycle

Issued 04 November 2025

During this period there has been 11 reports of theft of pedal cycle. This is one higher from the previous period.
We expected this figure would again be high due to the summer period and school children being off.
As a team we have conducted uniformed patrols in the hotspots on the ward over various times.
PCSO regularly conducts bike marketing events in the ward which are promoted on social media.
The team conduct CCTV enquiries for all reports to identify offenders

Actioned 04 November 2025

Theft of=from Motor Vehicle

Issued 04 November 2025

Ward Officers continue to collate all information from reports to identify trends and patterns.
The team regularly complete plain clothed patrols in main hotspots especially at night when most of these incidents occur. When on patrols they conduct stop and searches are completed where grounds exist.
During this period there has been 5 reports of theft of motor vehicle, and 4 reports of theft from motor vehicle.

Actioned 04 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 Canbury Gardens are saying are the issues in the area:

Latest Alerts

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Local Priorities Dangerous driving / speeding Message

Dear Resident, I wanted to provide you with an update regarding dangerous driving / speeding, which ...

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17/12/2025 15:35:50

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Local Priorities Personal theft (e.g. pick pocketing, no violence used) Message

Dear Resident, I wanted to provide you with an update regarding Personal theft (e.g. pick pocketing,...

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17/12/2025 15:31:53

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Speeding OP

Today the Canbury Gardens Safer Neighborhoods Team conducted a speeding enforcement operation with S...

Metropolitan Police
06/12/2025 22:00:23

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Report It Your Way

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04/12/2025 21:16:29

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Local Priorities Violence against women and girls Message

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04/12/2025 13:45:31

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Local Priorities Burglary Message

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04/12/2025 13:31:17

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A New Met for London

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26/11/2025 15:47:30

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21/11/2025 17:59:28

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