Figge's Marsh
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Figge's Marsh 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 Figge'sMarsh@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).
Matthew Bower
Sergeant
Kevin Chambers
Inspector
Emeka Okafor
PCSO
James Sawyer
Police Constable
Lee Trow
Police Constable
Nicoll Tsangari
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 |
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Shoplifting; – this is a major problem in the town centre and is one of the biggest sources of funding for drug habits. All shops along the town centre are regularly hit with shoplifting almost on a daily occurrence. Shoplifters often use violence against staff in order to commit the offence. Issued 17 November 2025 |
officers to conduct hi visibility patrols to deter shoplifters and also plain clothed ops in town centre to target known shoplifters. Regular contact is in place with the stores to allow them to report all offences and provide officers with CCTV. Actioned 17 November 2025 |
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ASB, street drinking and rough sleeping. This is often accompanied with violence, drugs and shoplifting. This is the main focus of concern on the ward and is a ward wide issue. Issued 17 November 2025 |
Officers regularly conduct hi-vis patrols and plain clothed patrols in the town centre and are working with Merton council CCTV to identify repeats offenders and deal with them accordingly. Actioned 17 November 2025 |
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Drugs; Complaints regarding Drugs in Figges Marsh ward has increased mainly within the town centre and surrounding car park and estates Issued 17 November 2025 |
to combat this Figges Marsh SNT will increase uniformed and plain clothed patrols in and around Mitcham Town Centre, Saddlers Close and surrounding area. Actioned 17 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 Figge's Marsh are saying are the issues in the area:
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