Cannon Hill

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 CannonHill@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).

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 Cannon Hill 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

Vehicle Crime - across ward Theft of and from motor vehicles is the wards highest reported crime often linked with burglary where car keys are taken and the vehicle removed from the location. Each reported crime will be followed up with contact from ward officers to victims and increase crime prevention awareness through social media and face to face contact - the reduction of motor vehicle crime is listed as one of the commissioner's targeted policing priorities

Victims of offences will be visited and local enquiries conducted for all offences, crime prevention awareness will be offered at community groups, drop in surgeries and via social media

burglary

The ward has started to experience an increase in residential burglaries and some attempted break ins with the onset of the darker evenings. Though the wardhas seen a 65% reduction in comparison with last year this will be a team priority

Victims of offences will be visited and local enquiries conducted for all offences, crime prevention awareness will be offered at community groups, drop in surgeries and via social media.

Open Spaces/ASB

Residents have raised concerns over street drinkers, rough sleepers and general ASB issues in open spaces including Cannon Hill Common, Morden Park Playing Fields, Joseph Hood Recreation Ground and Prince Georges Playing Fields

Officers from Cannon Hill SNT to conduct targeted high visibility foot patrols on below open space areas on Cannon Hill Ward to detect, deter, prevent offences and to engage and provide reassurance to residents and park users

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.