Merton Park

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Merton Park 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 MertonPark@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).

Nathan Attwell

Sergeant

Paula Besleaga

PCSO

Dave Haywood

PCSO

Alina Neacsu

Police Constable

James Reed

Police Constable

Aaron Skilton

Police Constable

Nicholas Swan

Inspector

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
Theft and Violence related offences - Morden Town Centre Issued 05 October 2026	Officers have been completing both visible and plain clothed patrols in Morden Town Centre, targeting theft and violent crime. Shoplifting offences do continue to occur, as a team we will continue to run operations in the town centre, both ourselves and working with council teams and store detectives on days of action to target theft offences So far we have run three operations in the Morden area, leading to the arrests and charges of numerous offenders as well as other disposals such as on the spot fines or banning notices for other offenders not suitable for arrest. 1 male was sentenced to 20 months in prison for associated theft offences Actioned 05 January 2027
Burglary Issued 05 October 2026	PCSO's have been completing re-assurance and crime prevention patrols to areas where there have been burglaries on the ward. Local officers will conduct enquiries around offences, looking for any evidential leads such as CCTV and analysing offences to see if any linked series are occurring with a similar pattern. We have run two pro-active operations in the area in 2026, both resulting in reduced reports of burglary and motor vehicle crime in the associated time frame, as well as a number of arrests completed for a variety of offences. Actioned 05 January 2027
Anti-social behaviour in parks and open spaces Issued 05 October 2026	ASB is an on-going local concern in parks and open spaces. These types of incidents often increase in the warmer months, and as such more of our patrols will be on parks and open spaces across the ward over the summer months Local officers will continue to patrol parks and open spaces and combat criminality and Anti-social behaviour in those locations where present. We will work in partnership with council ASB officers in affected areas to route out any identified concerns and identify those responsible, and use preventative legislation (via the early intervention scheme) to reduce anti-social behaviour. Actioned 05 January 2027

Priority

Action taken

Theft and Violence related offences - Morden Town Centre

Issued 05 October 2026

Officers have been completing both visible and plain clothed patrols in Morden Town Centre, targeting theft and violent crime.

Shoplifting offences do continue to occur, as a team we will continue to run operations in the town centre, both ourselves and working with council teams and store detectives on days of action to target theft offences
So far we have run three operations in the Morden area, leading to the arrests and charges of numerous offenders as well as other disposals such as on the spot fines or banning notices for other offenders not suitable for arrest.

1 male was sentenced to 20 months in prison for associated theft offences

Actioned 05 January 2027

Burglary

Issued 05 October 2026

PCSO's have been completing re-assurance and crime prevention patrols to areas where there have been burglaries on the ward.

Local officers will conduct enquiries around offences, looking for any evidential leads such as CCTV and analysing offences to see if any linked series are occurring with a similar pattern.

We have run two pro-active operations in the area in 2026, both resulting in reduced reports of burglary and motor vehicle crime in the associated time frame, as well as a number of arrests completed for a variety of offences.

Actioned 05 January 2027

Anti-social behaviour in parks and open spaces

Issued 05 October 2026

ASB is an on-going local concern in parks and open spaces.
These types of incidents often increase in the warmer months, and as such more of our patrols will be on parks and open spaces across the ward over the summer months

Local officers will continue to patrol parks and open spaces and combat criminality and Anti-social behaviour in those locations where present.
We will work in partnership with council ASB officers in affected areas to route out any identified concerns and identify those responsible, and use preventative legislation (via the early intervention scheme) to reduce anti-social behaviour.

Actioned 05 January 2027

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 Merton Park are saying are the issues in the area:

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