Lavender Fields

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 LavenderFields@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 Lavender Fields 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

Drugs, Violence, Youth Crime & ASB Drugs, Violence, Youth Crime & ASB occurring in Lavender Park, Tamworth Farm and Portland Road area. Focus on reducing drug dealing and drug use in the open spaces and surrounding streets. These locations have been highlighted due to the amount of positive drugs stop and search conducted information reports from local residents.

Drugs premises closed. Numerous youths caught with drugs. Drugs Warrants executed. High visibility and plain clothes patrols conducted.

Burglary & Motor Vehicle Crime

Predictive Crime mapping for Residential burglary in Lavender Fields indicates higher level of burglary in Liberty Avenue, Brangwyn Crescent as a high priority area. Crime prevention is always offered to residents during cocooning alerting neighbours of any incident, including prompting Neighbourhood watch and property marking schemes. Motor Vehicle Crime - no specific areas have been highlighted, however, when offences occur intermittently the property is left usually on display. Crime prevention is always offered.

Victim visits conducted. Crime prevention advice issued. Crime prevention talks given to community groups. Leaflet drops conducted in affected areas.

Promise 1 Prince Georges Rd -

Alleyway - request camera from Merton council or surveillance

Request made.

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.