Colliers Wood

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 ColliersWood@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 Colliers Wood 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

Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls is a key aspect of the Mayors Policing Plan and a New Met for London.

We use data to identify specific problem areas in Colliers Wood. We work with Merton Council to make areas safer. We work with specialist departments to relentlessly pursue perpetrators of VAWG.

Shoplifting

Colliers Wood has a large retail footprint and is often targeted by shoplifters. Concerns have been raised by a number of residents due to the increase in shoplifting that they have noticed on the ward.

Local officers have participated in a number of operations targeting the shoplifting hotspots resulting in a number of arrests. Officers will continue to target shoplifters and seek to manage the most prolific offenders with long standing solutions, such as Community Behavioural Orders.

Street Drinking

Colliers Wood has seen an increase in Anti-Social Behaviour caused by Street drinkers, such as drug taking and rowdy and inconsiderate behaviour. With particular hotspots being outside the tube station, on the High-street and its surrounding area.

Officers have patrolled the ward with Merton Safer Streets and are assisting in the implementation of the borough wide public space protection order (PSPO) on anti-social street drinking. Officers have also set up their own proactive management plan to focus efforts on reducing the amount of anti-social behaviour caused by street drinkers.

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.